Sales catalogue: Marks and Co

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/38
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , ocnaaatin WAAIMM [0 WAL 1IY/SS A SM ie GaN it eb a AK A Sy OF BvOlo'w Ss ON BO ea RUE (MAINLY OLD & RARE) ON SALE BY UE as IEE. Oa nee Ra 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON, Wie OU a eg ENGLAND, 8h VLAN Et AY C SOA NIN Pt SEF AP IN 1 909020Q0B®V®IIVQWIINI99OQIOS2I.29HIQOI. III 199 1992IGQH2.92IIOWOQII|IIAOI§}. 20 9IOV®I®IQWOVWVI DW hy (ATWOOD (Mrs, Mary Anne South) ) A Suggestive Enquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, with a Dissertation on the more celebrated of the Alchemical Philosophers: being an Attompt towards the Recovery of the Ancient Experiments of Nature, The Rare First Edition, 8vo, original cloth, (slightly worn at joints) L650, : ce £8=10—0 stile al cs ~- Another Copy, First Edition, with profuse Ms, annotations in ink on the margins and end-leaves, 8vo, rebound cloth, 1850, £7=LO=0 This work was published anonymously, only a few copies (under 100 in number) having been sold or sent to Public Libraries. The entire residue of the edition was called in by the friends of Mr, South and burnt, The motive for suppressing the work was that too many secrets of Hermetism had been disclosed, An account of this work is to be found in Jennings! Rosicrucitans: their Rites and Mysteries, By etme New Edition (Second), with an Introduction by Walter Be L, Wilmshurst; also an Appendix, containing the Memorabilia of Mary Anne Atwood, portrait, Svo, cloth, Belfast, 1918, We ea aie ee SE a on ie | £Ll=1L0-0 4, (BACON (William) ) A Key to Helmont, or a Short Instruction to , the Better Understa nding of the Theory and Method of the most Profound Chymical Physicians, 54 pages, sm, 4to, rebound in buckram, Printed for John Starkey, at the Mitre near Temple Bar, 1682, | L4—e1 0-0 A nice copy of this rare tract with good margins, The Preface is signed William Bacon, From my House in Winchester Street, London Bi (BERNARD, Compte de la Marche Trevisane) Le Texte d'Alchymie, et le Songe-Verd, with plate,fcap, 8vo, contemp, calf, Paris, chez Laurent Dr, Houry, 1695, £1-5=0 6, (BONI (Pietro Antonio) ) The New Pearl of Great Price: a Treatise concerning the Treasure and most Precious Stone of the Philosophers, or the Method and Procedure of this Divine Art, with Observations drawn from the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, first published by Janus Lacinius, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index, the Original Aldine Edition, translated into English by A, EB, Waite, woodcuts, thick post 8vo, cloth, 1894, L1lWdeO —