A philosophical account of Nature in general : and of the generation of the three principles of Nature, viz. mercury, sulphur, and salt, out of the four elements / Translated from the French. By John Digby, Esq.

Novum lumen chymicum. English

Ænigma philosophicum

Dialogus mercurii alchymistæ et naturæ

Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumiere

London : Printed for John Hooke ... and Thomas Edlin ..., 1722.

12 unnumbered pages, 348 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

Duveen, p.545

Ferguson vol.II, p.367

ESTC n020794

ESTC N20794

Contains translations of Michał Se̦dziwój's Novum lumen chymicum (including his Ænigma philosophicum and Dialogus mercurii alchymistæ et naturæ) and Tractatus de sulphure; and Johann Harprecht the younger's Lucerna salis philosophorum ("A Treatise, or Discourse Upon Salt ... ")

Advertisement, "Some Books Printed for J. Hooke", on verso of initial leaf

Texts taken from a similar collection translated from Latin into French by Millet de Bosnay and published as Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumiere de la physique naturelle (or, later, Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumiere chymique)

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Bristow 992 Note: Binding: contemp. blind panelled calf