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Lot 190
[ALCHEMY] Publishers Sammelband of four works, under the general title Bibliotheca chemica contracta ex delectu & emendatione. Gene...
of four works, under the general title Bibliotheca chemica contracta ex delectu & emendatione. Geneva: Ioannis Ant[onius] & Samuelis de Tournes, 1653-4. Containing [AUGURELLI, GIOVANNI AURELIO. Chrysopoeia: et Vellvs avrevm, sev, Chrysopoeia maior et minor; [SENDIVOGIUS, MICHAEL]. Novvm lvmen chemicvm, è Natvræ fonte et manvali experientia depromptum. Cui accessit Tractatus de svlphvre; [ESPAGNET, JEAN D']. Enchiridion physicæ restitvae ... Tractatus alter inscriptus Arcanvm hermeticæ philosophiae opvs; and his Arcanum Hermeticæ Philosophiae opus: in quo occulta naturæ et artis circa Lapidis Philosophorum materiam et operandi modum canonice et ordinate fiunt manifesta. [8] ff., 77, 175, 179 pp., [6] ff., 83, [1] pp. Vellum of the period, laced spine, old titling in ink. First title slightly toned, overall a good copy, old ownership inscription at head of title.
The collection was edited by Nathan d'Aubigné de LaFosse (Nathanis Albinei). Nathan d' Jean D'Espagnet was an alchemist and witchhunter; Sendivogius (Michal Sedziwój) a Polish medical doctor and alchemist, who discovered that air was not a single substance; and Augurelli a humanist scholar (and alchemist). All of these works appeared in earlier editions, and all but the first in the present editions have integral titles, and were also sold separately (and indeed occasionally appear at auction thus). Both the parts and the compilation are rare. c.f. Wellcome II, 25.
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