The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
by Yates, Frances
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0586082212
- ISBN 13
- 9780586082218
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
St Albans: Paladin. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1972). Softcover. 0586082212 . Some creasing to spine. No signatures. Small price sticker on rear cover.; Paperback reprint. 315, [3] pages + plates. Page dimensions: 194 x 118mm. Yates was a Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London. "Dr Frances Yates reveals that the ['Rosicrucian manifestos'] were connected with movements stirred up by John Deein Bohemia during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and with contemporary movements in South Germany which culminated in the short-lived reigh of Frederick, Elector Palatinate, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as 'Winter' King and Queen of Bohemia." - from dust-jacket blurb of the first edition (not this copy). Cover illustration by Justin Todd. Selected chapter titles: The Bohemian Tragedy; The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz; The Palatinate Publisher; Francis Bacon 'Under the Shadow of Jehova's Wings'; Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos; From the Invisible College to the Royal Society; Elias Ashmoile and the Dee Tradition; Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry; The Rosicrucian Enlightenment; Index. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22542
- Title
- The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
- Author
- Yates, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0586082212
- ISBN 13
- 9780586082218
- Publisher
- Paladin
- Place of Publication
- St Albans
- Date Published
- (1972)
- Keywords
- 0586082212
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About Renaissance Books
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