HERMETICA

Edited with English Translation and Notes by Walter Scott 

4 volumes: 

I. Introduction, texts and translations

II.Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum

III. Notes on the Latin Asclepius and the Hermetic Excerpts of Stobaeus

IV. Testimonia, Addenda and Indices. With introduction addenda and indices by A.S. Ferguson

Original black cloth titled gilt on the spines, uncut edges, dust soiling on the top edges, some pages unopened, overall a very good copy in the dust jackets.

‘A trustworthy and complete edition of these writings has long been a desideratum among those interested in the history of religious thought.  The editor dismisses from consideration the astrological, magical, and alchemical writings ascribed to Hermes, and deals with those only in which is taught a religion based on philosophy. He aims at settling the much-disputed question of the origin and date of these Hermetica; and he concluded that they are records of the teaching of men who lived in Egypt under the Roman Empire, and that most of them were written in the third century A.D.’ Editor’s note.