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Aurea Catena gravé et COMMENTÉ par Raphael Augustinus Kleweta

by Basilius Valentianus

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Belvezy: Editions Anima Mundi 2002, 2002. Limited edition, 19 of 50. 150x120mm. Unpaginated. pp.20. The text is printed in red from the Kleweta's calligraphy. Illustrated with six coloured engravings including one on the title page and line drawings in the text. Bound in red morocco illustrated on the upper cover and lettered in gold to upper and lower cover. Near fine. Printed by Kleweta on his own press, this is an attractive example of his distinctive dream-like style and left-field choice of subject mixing erotic prints with alchemical symbols. Basilius Valentinus was, supposedly, a fifteenth-century alchemist and monk although it seems that no such person ever existed. Instead, he is now thought to have been Johann Thölde, a German salt manufacturer and Kleweta gives us "Valentinus's" recipe's for the production of salt. A curious and beautiful artist's book. Rafal Augustyn Kleweta was born in Lodz, Poland in 1949. He worked for the film director Jerzy Hoffman before winning an art scholarship to Berlin in 1971. He settled in France in 1976 and adopted the name Raphaël Augustinus Kleweta. His principal work was in ornamental design but he was a fine engraver and printer. In 1989 he set up his own publishing enterprise, Anima Mundi where he produced some fifty books.

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Bookseller
Voewood Rare Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
3783
Title
Aurea Catena gravé et COMMENTÉ par Raphael Augustinus Kleweta
Author
Basilius Valentianus
Book Condition
Used
Publisher
Belvezy: Editions Anima Mundi 2002
Date Published
2002

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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.

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Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Title Page
A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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