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Off print articles and publications, chiefly produced by The New Alchemy Group, a US ecological research centre, on topics including solar power, wind farms, fish farming and methane digesters.

Papers of M H F Wilkins: publications relating to alternative technologies

Ambix the journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry.

Ambix.

Chymists and chymistry : studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry / Lawrence M. Principe, editor.

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Various partial and complete manuscripts and notes regarding alchemy, reason and the philosophy of science, including those with the following titles: "The Place of Time in Alchemy"; "Contrablast to John Michell"; "Radio Magnesia"; "The Cooperation of Reason and Necessity"; "The Axiom of Maria"; "The Invisible College of Alchemy" and "The Conception of Time in Alchemy". The file also contains a few papers concerning the psychological affect of drugs and psychedelic experience.

Alchemy writings

Les monuments alchimiques de Paris. L'unité de la matière. Author's holograph MSS. The first work contains a rough pen-drawing of the tomb of Étienne Yves 1467 in Nôtre Dame de Paris. Produced in Paris.

1 volume 14 ff. + 7 ll. (last bl.), 20 ff. 4to., 8vo. 22 × 161/2 cm., 20 × 16 cm. Unbound. Written on the rectos only.

Paris: alchemy

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Comprises an undated manuscript about Carl Jung and the golden flower and an undated manuscript titled "Way of the Future".

"IV Alchemy"

These papers were originally loose and have been grouped together by the cataloguer.
Comprises papers about alchemy, symbolic images in alchemical drawings and inner dreams, partial manuscripts for alchemy writings, a proof for The Chymical Wedding, notes and references for a work and chapter drafts and outlines for works regarding alchemy. The papers are undated, the date given is an estimate.

Alchemy papers

Mélanges alchimiques. Notes diverses. Author's holograph MSS. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of symbolic figures, etc. The first folder contains notes and extracts on the constitution of matter, alchemical notes and extracts, and fragments of two short stories on occult themes. The second folder consists mainly of extracts and notes from alchemical books and MSS. Produced in Paris.

1 volume 37 ll., 40 ll. v.s. Unbound in folders.

Alchemy, miscellany

Alchemy in the Newtonian circle : personal aquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy / Karin Figala and Ulrich Petzold.

Notes, extracts and commentaries on alchemical subjects, especially on the works of Eirenaeus Philaletha and Pantaleon: including at the end, and by a different hand, 'Les sept chapitres de Jean de Mehun, intitulez "Miroir d'Alchimie" '. With some alchemical, chemical and medical receipts: in French. Pp. 117-130 contain 'Explication des figures hiérogliphiques d'Abraham Jüif. The 'Sept chapitres de Jean de Mehun' are on the first six un-numbered leaves, and are in the form of a prose epitome. In the final section there is a reference to Pernety's 'Dictionnaire [mytho]hermétique', which was published in 1758.

1 volume 178 pp. + 18 ll. 8vo. 18 x 11 cm. Original vellum binding worn. A leaf has been cut out, before the commencement of the text. The un-numbered leaves are written by a different and probably later hand.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Collection of notes and extracts chiefly from 17th cent. German alchemical writings: including 231 numbered, and a few other, alchemical processes. Some entries are in Latin. Pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus on pp. 121, 273, 274, 282: and of symbolic figures on pp. 1 and 333. Headings in green or red: text within red rules. The latest work quoted which can be dated with any certainty seems to be found on p. 295, where there are extracts from the 'Concordantia Philosophorum' by the enigmatic Ehrd von Naxagoras, which was published at Breslau in 1712. P. 393 contains 'Ein verborgener aber geistlischer Process' in cipher, with a holograph decipherment by Julius Kohn [ -1934].

1 volume 1 l. + 343 pp. + 8 ll. 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. Original vellum covers from a leaf of an early 15th cent. Service Book.

Collection of alchemical extracts and receipts: in German. Pencil drawing of an alchemical furnace. Mainly written by two contemporary hands. On the verso of the last blank leaf is a seal impression in red wax with a monogram (not deciphered).

1 volume 7 ll. + 47 pp. + 43 ll. (last 2 bl.). 8vo. 161/2 x 101/2 cm. Loose in a crimson stamped-vellum cover.

Anonymous work containing 57 leaves of remarkable coloured pendrawings symbolizing the processes of making the Stone, and of alchemical apparatus, etc. Ff. 44-49 contain illustrations of apparatus, and fol. 60 two emblazoned coats of arms, of which the lower one may be that of Charles Bulteau [1627--1710], a French political writer and book-collector. On fol. 12 is a poem of 17 lines in Italian, beginning 'Ogn'un s'agiuti come puo e sa / attender la natura con due ali': and ending 'Salua le sponglie e nulla ne gettare / se liquor diuerso uuoi cauere'. The work begins 'Tesaurum mundi, hic est // Ecce surgens Philosophus germanieque doctrine filius ...': various passages in the text appear to be based on Arabic sources.

1 volume 60 ff. + 4 bl. ll. folio. 271/2 x 21 cm. Modern boards.

Alchemy 17th cent.

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Comprises Abrams' account of his activities in 1967 to 1972, a manuscript titled "Cannabis Law Reform After Five Years", notes and bibliography.

"Alchemy of Cannabis"

Jacob Needleman (University of California) introduces the programme with a brief history of alchemy; Dr. Albert Hofman of Basle talks about LSD and its use in revealing a reality beyond one's unaided vision; Arnold, Count Keyserling (University of Vienna) discusses everyday reality and its heightened form, ecstasy. How can the Western psyche overcome its isolating self-centredness? How can we restore the lost connection between mind and body and so connect ourselves with the rest of creation? Visual material includes reconstruction of an alchemists' laboratory, crucifiction paintings, chanting buddhists, whirling dervishes and spectroscopes of human and plant auras.

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

The new alchemy.

Fragment of a collection of alchemical receipts and processes: Illustrated by crude marginal water-colour drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. The receipts are numbered from [52] to 94, both of which entries are incomplete; the numeration of the receipts appears to be irregular.

1 volume 24 ll. 4to. 211/2 x 16 cm. Unbound. Beginning and end wanting.

Alchemy 16th cent.

Collection of alchemical processes and receipts: in German and Latin. On p. 17 is a pen-drawing of a retort, and on p. 34 of a phial. Apparently compiled by a Polish alchemist: the results of experiments and operations are sometimes given, one on p. 32 is dated 1725.

1 volume 2 ll. + 56 pp. + 4 ll. 4to. 18 x 121/2 cm. Original paper covers, the lower cover defective. Pp. 17/18 wanting: pp. 25/26, 38/39 mutilated; some margins frayed.

Collection of alchemical receipts: in Italian; mainly written by two hands.

1 volume 49 ll. 8vo. 151/2 x 101/2 cm. On vellum, original stamped panelled calf gilt binding, roughly re-backed.

Collection of alchemical, chemical and medical receipts: with some additions at the end by a later hand. Illustrated by a few rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. One of the entries by a later hand, on fol. 524, is dated 1678.

1 volume 533 ff. + 15 ll. (last 2 bl.) 8vo. 16 x 111/2 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Alchemy: 17th cent.

Collection of ten full-page water-colour drawings, with MS. Latin descriptions in red, of alchemical apparatus, furnaces, etc. The date is found on the illustration of a mortar on the verso of the third leaf from the end.

1 volume 11 ll. folio. 35 x 24 cm. Original paper covers. Six of the illustrations have laminated parts.

Epistolae alchemicae. Opus de lapide philosophico. Praeloquium. Tractatus Isaacci Hollandi. Followed by various medical, iatrochemical and alchemical receipts, and a long tract on the Powder of Sympathy. In Latin, French and Italian, with a few entries in Spanish. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. The first three works have not been identified, but they seem to have been written by a practising alchemist who was very widely read in the literature, and he gives copious quotations from many authors. Possibly written in an Italian hand.  Produced in Kaschau [Kassa].

1 volume 176 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 15 cm. Original limp vellum covers worn. Some margins and corners damaged, slight damp-stains.

ALCHEMY: History. Short essay on the history of alchemy to the death of Paracelsus. Partly written on sheets of note-paper of various sizes and colours, and partly on sheets of a printed 'Testimonial' dated 1853-54 in favour of Heckethorn's 'Patent Ground Colour.' The main text seems to have been written c. 1855, but the Index, and the last 2 ff. are by a later hand: on the verso of fol. 52 is the date 1863.

1 volume 52 ff. 8vo. 20 x 121/2 cm. Unbound. Some margins frayed.

Alchemical notes and extracts from alchemical authors: in German. The first leaf contains a symbolic alchemical pen-drawn figure. The latest work mentioned in the text-on leaf [25]-is Crosset de la Haumerie [i.e. Alexandre le Crom] 'Les Secrets les plus cachés de la Philosophie des Ancients'. This was first published at Paris in 1722. [Cf. Ferguson: 'Bibliotheca Chemicá' Vol. II, pp. 15, 16].

1 volume 28 ll. (last bl.). folio. 41 x 26 cm. Unbound. The sheets are not uniform. They are numbered, by double sheet, 11, 12, 14, 16-19, 24, 25, 26 (containing 8 ll. sewn together): the last sheet seems to be by a different and later hand.

Collection of extracts from alchemical authors, alchemical processes, chemical and medical receipts, receipts for making artificial gems, etc.: Headings and many marginal notes in red, illustrated with numerous rough pen-drawings, mostly in red, of alchemical apparatus. The date 1506 is given at the end of a receipt for 'Vitriolum Romanum' on fol. 28v. Some of the marginal notes seem to be by a different and rather later 16th cent. hand. The first and last leaves are pasted down on the covers. On the second leaf is written 'Doct[oris] Anonimi'. Inside the upper cover 'No. 10. Johannes Keirast [?] Ma[gister?] P[harmaciae?]', in a 16th cent. hand.

1 volume 2 ll. + 145 ff. + 1 l. 4to. 211/2 x 16 cm. 16th cent. German stamped leather binding, the outer border roller-stamped, with a design of three repeated half-length figures lettered 'Carol', 'Ferdin', 'Andrea', the lower cover also lettered 'Register'.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: publications relating to alternative technologies

Ambix the journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry.

Ambix.

Chymists and chymistry : studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry / Lawrence M. Principe, editor.

Alchemy writings

Paris: alchemy

"IV Alchemy"

Alchemy papers

Alchemy, miscellany

Alchemy in the Newtonian circle : personal aquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy / Karin Figala and Ulrich Petzold.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy 17th cent.

"Alchemy of Cannabis"

The new alchemy.

Alchemy 16th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy 16th cent.

Alchemy: 17th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 16th cent.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: publications relating to alternative technologies

Ambix the journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry.

Ambix.

Chymists and chymistry : studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry / Lawrence M. Principe, editor.

Alchemy writings

Paris: alchemy

"IV Alchemy"

Alchemy papers

Alchemy, miscellany

Alchemy in the Newtonian circle : personal aquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy / Karin Figala and Ulrich Petzold.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy 17th cent.

"Alchemy of Cannabis"

The new alchemy.

Alchemy 16th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy 16th cent.

Alchemy: 17th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

Alchemy: 18th cent.

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