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An alchemist wearing a tall hat, sitting at a table containing his chemical instruments. Lithograph by H. Wood after F. Howard.

Howard, Frank, 1805-1866.

L'alchimie et les alchimistes : Essai historique et critique sur la philosophie hermétique

Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894.

Date: 1860

An elderly alchemist sitting next to his equipment. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.

Weigel, Christoph, 1654-1725.

Date: 1698

The lure and romance of alchemy

Thompson, C. J. S. 1862-1943.

Date: [1932]

Library of mesmerism and psychology : embracing the most popular works on the subject.

Date: 1854

Quelques problèmes de littérature alchimiste

Ruska, Julius, 1867-1949.

Date: [1931]

The way to health, long life, and happiness, or, a discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit [sic] for the life of man, as all sorts of meats, drink, air, exercise, etc. ... Shewing ... whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... by Philotheos Physiologus [i.e. T. Tryon]

Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.

Date: 1697

Page 1 of Arabic manuscript on Alchemy by Razes

Güldenes Kleinod, oder: Schatzkästlein

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.

Date: 1782

Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.

Date: 1652

An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Coloured lithograph by J. Cullum, ca. 1840, after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.

Teniers, David, 1610-1690.

Amulet to protect against health problems, Germany, 1701-190

Science Museum, London

A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting.

Trismosin, Salomon.

Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (1)

Hermes curiosus, sive inventa et experimenta physico-chymica nova

Balduin, Christian Adolph, 1632-1682.

Date: [1683]

Alchemical Manuscript

Allergy : strangest of all maladies

Vaughan, Warren T. 1893-1944.

Date: 1944

Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

Braakensiek, Joh. 1858-1940.

Date: 12 February 1893

Cinq traités d'alchimie des plus grands philosophes

Poisson, Albert, 1868-1894.

Date: 1890

Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (12)

Alchemical oven, Asrar-I-Hikma, 17th Century

An alchemist or chemist examining a liquid. Oil painting attributed to Charles-Emile Francois, 1841.

Charles-Emile FranÃ§ois

"Tomus secundus de supernaturali..."Fludd, 1619

Loves garland : or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ...

Brown, James Roberts.

Date: 1883

A red-faced king stands in a red robe, flanked by a queen and the deity Mercury in green clothes; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.

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