VERY RARE Ouroboros Bookplate and Signature of Ethan A. Hitchcock, c. 1857
Type of Print- Copperplate Engraving (Bookplate)
Date of Book- 1844
Date of E.A. Hitchcock Signature- 1857
condition- Excellent/Very Good+
This 19th century book with a well known ouroboros bookplate was from the private library of EA Hitchcock, who was a civil war major general and significant collector of rare alchemical books. In his book Alchemy and the Alchemist published in 1857 he claimed that alchemists were philosophers writing in cryptic symbols, which inspired the book Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism in 1914 by Herbert Silberer, which was a major influence on Carl Jung, and informed Jung’s fascination with alchemy as a metaphor for psychic development.
Type of Print- Copperplate Engraving (Bookplate)
Date of Book- 1844
Date of E.A. Hitchcock Signature- 1857
condition- Excellent/Very Good+
This 19th century book with a well known ouroboros bookplate was from the private library of EA Hitchcock, who was a civil war major general and significant collector of rare alchemical books. In his book Alchemy and the Alchemist published in 1857 he claimed that alchemists were philosophers writing in cryptic symbols, which inspired the book Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism in 1914 by Herbert Silberer, which was a major influence on Carl Jung, and informed Jung’s fascination with alchemy as a metaphor for psychic development.
Type of Print- Copperplate Engraving (Bookplate)
Date of Book- 1844
Date of E.A. Hitchcock Signature- 1857
condition- Excellent/Very Good+
This 19th century book with a well known ouroboros bookplate was from the private library of EA Hitchcock, who was a civil war major general and significant collector of rare alchemical books. In his book Alchemy and the Alchemist published in 1857 he claimed that alchemists were philosophers writing in cryptic symbols, which inspired the book Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism in 1914 by Herbert Silberer, which was a major influence on Carl Jung, and informed Jung’s fascination with alchemy as a metaphor for psychic development.