Theodor Schwenk Sensitive Chaos HC Illustrated Signed/Personalized London 1965

SCHWENK, THEODOR. Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air. Translated by Olive Whicher and Johanna Wrigley, with illustrations by Walther Roggenkamp and a preface by Commandant J. Y. Cousteau. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1971. Second impression of the first English edition. Hardcover in the original pictorial dust jacket. 144 pages with 188 illustrations.

Schwenk's extensively illustrated study of the formative movements of water and air—including waves, vortices, flow patterns and their relationship to living and organic forms. A significant work associated with Goethean science, anthroposophy, hydrodynamics and ecological water research.

Very Good book in Fair dust jacket. Blue cloth boards remain attractive, binding firm, and pages clean. Birthday gift inscription dated 1972 and a former owner's signature on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket is heavily rubbed and creased, with edge tears, chips and areas of loss, particularly at the spine ends and corners; label-removal mark to rear panel. Please see photographs for condition.