Eco (Umberto), 1932-2016

Lo strano caso della Hanau 1609

Milan, Bompiani, 1989
(22 cm), 45 (3) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Discussion of the wide influence of Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae (1595), and the new illustrations incorporated in the Hanau reprint of 1609. Edition of 1000 numbered copies (this is 66). Another version of the text was published (under the same title) in L’Esopo, 1988; a French translation, by Alfredo Périfano (L’énigme de la Hanau 1609: enquête bio-bibliographique sur “l’Amphithéâtre de l’éternelle sapience” de Heinrich Khunrath), and a Spanish translation (El extraño caso de La Hanau 1609), were published in 1990; and a “final” version in Italian appeared in Eco’s La memoria vegetale e altri scritti di bibliofilia (Milan 2007). ¶ Author’s presentation inscription on endpaper. Very good copy.

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