Hortulus hermeticus flosculis philosophorum cupro incisis conformatus, et breuissimis versiculis explicatus. Quo chymiatriae studiosi pro philotheca vti, fessique laboratorium ministri recreari possint / authore M. Daniele Stolcio.

Hortulus hermeticus. Latin

Francofurti : Impensis Lucae Jennisii, 1627.

165 pages : engr. plates, illustrations (engravings) ; (8vo)

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica p. 566

Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica II, p. 410-411

Landwehr, J. German emblem books 561

Title vignette; head-pieces, initials

"The first eight pages are printed as usual, then on p. 9, and every fourth page thereafter, there is a steel engraving containing four small emblematic pictures with a motto and an alchemist's name. Below the engraving are printed the mottos. Pp. 10-11, 14-15, 18-19, and so on to the end, are blank. Pp. 8, 12, and every fourth page thereafter, have two couplets on each of the symbols on the following page"--Ferguson

Copy 1 Note: In this interleaved copy there is a MS. German verse translation in an 18th cent. hand of the two couplets on each of the symbols which are printed on p. 8, 12, and every fourth page thereafter.