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1 print : lithograph ; image 14.9 x 18.8 cm

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

De la pierre philosophale. Ff. 26v and 27 contain additions by a later hand. Written in 'caractères de civilité'.

1 volume 28 ff. (last bl.). 4to. 24 x 17 cm. Unbound.

Perrier à S. Picard, Sieur Dubois

Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA

On the elements / [Marius].

L'alchimie et les alchimistes : Essai historique et critique sur la philosophie hermétique / par Louis Figuier.

94 pages, 15 unnumbered pages, 31 pages ; 18 cm

Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

1 print : line engraving ; image 8.5 x 7.9 cm

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

Les avantvres du philosophe inconnv, en la recherche et en l'inuention de la pierre philosophale / Divisees en qvatre liures. Av dernier desqvels il est parlé si clairement de la façon de la faire, que jamais on n'en a parlé auec tant de candeur.

Ambix.

Albertus Magnus on alchemy / by J.R. Partington.

'The PRACTICE or how to make gold step by step' [MS. No. 3968] is written by the same hand, and may possibly have originally formed part of this MS. The date 1774 is found on p. 17 and p. 44, in both instances apparently added later.

1 volume 6 ll. + 204 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 211/2 x 171/2 cm. Modern vellum covers.

Du Grand Oeuvre. Extraits de mes lectures rélatives au Grand Oeuvre

Compendio impirico, o arte medicinale impirica composta da Fra Leone Milanese cappuccino. Ad istancia delli sua conpagni alli quali a portato, e porta particulare affetto di cuore, e questo a fatto per che possino esercitare l'infermeria con maggior lume e sicureza...Dato in luce a me Fra Francesco da Peretola A.D. 1654, povero capuccino. Pratica medicinale D. F. Leone da Milano. Christophorus Parisiensis. Alfabeto del Alchimia, 1476 [Transcript].

Below the first title is a pen-drawing of a medicine cupboard. At the end of the second work is a rough diagram of a hand, with astrological signs.

Contents:
(1) Compendio impirico (380 pp.).
(2) Trattato breve...dell'arte chimica (pp. 381-416).
(3) Pratica medicinale (287 pp.).
(4) Miscellaneous medical receipts, at the end a short work on Chiromancy (pp. 289-331 + 12 ll.).
(5) Christophorus Parisiensis. Alfabeto (22 ll.).

The first leaf and the last tract are by a different, and probably slightly later 17th cent. hand. MS. No. 3236 contains a transcript of the first work in this MS. by Reinerio Bertini, but under the title 'Esortazione empirica'. MS. No. 3237 contains a transcript of the second work by the same hand, in an abbreviated version. Here the scribe styles himself 'Rainerio Antonio Bertini'.

There are also additional chemical, alchemical and other receipts and 'Secrets'.

Produced in Florence.

1 volume 18 ll. + 416 pp. + 331 pp. + 12 ll. + 22 ll. + 7 bl. ll. 4to. 20 x 141/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

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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.

Perrier à S. Picard, Sieur Dubois

On the elements / [Marius].

L'alchimie et les alchimistes : Essai historique et critique sur la philosophie hermétique / par Louis Figuier.

Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

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

Les avantvres du philosophe inconnv, en la recherche et en l'inuention de la pierre philosophale / Divisees en qvatre liures. Av dernier desqvels il est parlé si clairement de la façon de la faire, que jamais on n'en a parlé auec tant de candeur.

Albertus Magnus on alchemy / by J.R. Partington.

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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.

Perrier à S. Picard, Sieur Dubois

On the elements / [Marius].

L'alchimie et les alchimistes : Essai historique et critique sur la philosophie hermétique / par Louis Figuier.

Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

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

Les avantvres du philosophe inconnv, en la recherche et en l'inuention de la pierre philosophale / Divisees en qvatre liures. Av dernier desqvels il est parlé si clairement de la façon de la faire, que jamais on n'en a parlé auec tant de candeur.

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