Le Secret des Secrets

SECRET (Le) des secrets de la Nature, tirez des meilleurs auteurs tant hébreux que grecs, arabes, chaldéens, latins et de plusieurs autres modernes. Enrichi des plusieurs secrets de Cornelius Agrippa.... Vu, corrigé et bien augmenté. Illustrated by rough pen-drawings of optical and chemical apparatus, etc. Pp. 90-111 are blank. From p. 44 onwards there are additions by later hands, the last on p. 89, dated 1821. The original work under this title was first printed early in the 18th century. Written by H. Perrigal of Glandin, 'petit amy de la Révolution française' as he styles himself on the title-page. Produced in Glandin.

1796-1821

1 volume 1 l. + 115 pp. + 4 ll. folio. 251/2 × 181/2 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Berhard VI Collection.