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Photo EIDOUS, Marc-Antoine. 

EIDOUS, Marc-Antoine. 

Mémoires littéraires sur différens sujets de Physique, de Mathématique, de Chymie, de Médecine, de Géographie, d'Agriculture, d'Histoire naturelle. 

Paris, André Cailleau, 1750.
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150 €

First edition.
Compilation of different texts collected throughout Europe by Eidus on subjects as diverse as the Philosopher's Stone, burning fountains, the increase in yields, the origin of nations ...
The author indicates in the preface that he will publish other memoirs if this first volume is successful, which he did the same year.

Photo DIGBY, Kenelm (Chevalier). 

DIGBY, Kenelm (Chevalier). 

Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée [...] touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. 

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1681.
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200 €

New edition containing in a second part the Dissertation on the powder of sympathy, translated in french from the Latin of Mr. Papin
Kenelm Digby (1603 – 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat, and an alchemist. Explaining everything by occult causes, fermentation, and effluvia, he thought he could cure with the “Powder of Sympathy”, a preparation of pulverized and calcined vitriol supposed to act, even at a distance, on wounds and injuries.

Photo ETTMULLER, Michel. 

ETTMULLER, Michel. 

Nouvelle Chymie raisonnée. 

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1693.
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400 €

First french edition.
Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

Photo BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse. 

BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse. 

Traité de l'art metalique, extrait des Oeuvres d'Alvarez Alfonse Barba, célèbre artiste dans les mines du Potozi, auquel on a joint un mémoire concernant les mines de France; avec un Tarif qui démontre les opérations qu'il faudroit faire pour tirer de ces mines l'or et l'argent qu'en tiroient les Romains lorsqu'ils étoient maîtres de Gaules. 

Paris, Pierre Prault, 1730.
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450 €

First edition in french
Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

Photo PALISSY, Bernard. 

PALISSY, Bernard. 

Oeuvres de Bernard Palissy revues sur les exemplaires de la Bibliothèque du Roi ; avec des notes par M. Faujas de Saint Fond, et des additions par M. Gobet. 

Paris, Ruault, 1777.
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450 €

First edition of the complete works of Bernard Palissy. As always without the portrait and the dedicatory epistle to Franklin, which were deleted by the editor prior to publication.
In this copy a later portrait as been added.

It contains the texts on alchemy, but also on agriculture, geology, botany, ceramics, embalming, engineering, hydrology , medicine, metallurgy, meteorology, mineralogy, paleontology, philosophy, physics, toxicology and zoology.

Palissy, first became famous through his technique for making a rustic enameled earthenware, a skill which gained him the appointment of inventeur des rustiques figurines du roy. Palissy was probably one of the first men in France to teach natural sciences from facts, specimens and demonstrations rather than hypotheses. (DSB).

Photo [VILLAIN, Etienne-Francois]. 

[VILLAIN, Etienne-Francois]. 

Histoire critique de Nicolas Flamel et de Pernelle sa femme. 

Paris, G. Desprez, 1761.
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500 €

First edition.
Nicolas Flamel, who died in 1418, is undoubtedly the most famous of alchemists, Abbé Villain looks into the historical truth of this character who has become a legend.

Photo WECKER, Jean Jacques. 

WECKER, Jean Jacques. 

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature. 

Lyon, Jean Aymée Candy, 1652.
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600 €

Jean-Jacques Wecker (1528-1585) German physician, philosopher and alchemist. This book contains beauty secrets, advice on destroying parasites, information on dyes, varnishes and gilding, gardening, preserving fruit, making ink, how to remove stains, amusing physics tricks... and more esoteric chapters on demons and alchemy.

Photo PERNETY, Antoine Joseph. 

PERNETY, Antoine Joseph. 

Les Fables Egyptiennes et Grecques dévoilées & réduites au même principe, avec une explication des hiéroglyphes et de la guerre de Troye. 

Paris, Delalain, 1786.
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600 €

Second edition.
Treatise by Pernety in which he argues that the Greek and Egyptian mythologies contain the secret of the Great Work.

Photo MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.
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600 €

Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) is a German physician and alchemist. In his Thesaurus, he gives us his best recipes of ointments, emplatres, liqueurs for medicine. As always at this time, chemistry, alchemy and pharmacopoeia are closely intertwined.
In the Testamentum Hadrianeum following the Thesaurus, we are given in a versified form the secret of the philosopher's stone of Mynsicht.
Rare edition not spotted by Ferguson, nor Caillet.

Photo REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

Du Feu et de quelques-uns de ses principaux effets. 

Lausanne, Mourer, 1787.
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600 €

First edition.
Reynier makes "fire" in this work, an essential constituent of the material which ensures its cohesion.
His theory announces, following Lavoisier, the replacement of the phlogiston theory by the caloric theory.
Our modern gaze would find that by replacing “fire” with “energy”, Reynier demonstrates many interesting intuitions here. As such it is often cited by Bachelard in his “Psychoanalysis of Fire”.

Photo KEIL, Christoph Heinrich. 

KEIL, Christoph Heinrich. 

Compendiöses doch vollkommenes philosophisches hand-büchlein, das ist : philosophische grund-sätze zur universal-tinctur auf menschen und metallen, womit alle wahre philosophi so von der welt bis hieher gewesen sind, übereinstimmen, als welches der wahre grund alle philosophische bücher gründlich zu verstehen, und die höchste medicin zu machen. 

Bayreuth und hof, Johann Gottlieb Vierling, 1748.
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600 €

Rare second edition of this work by Christoph Heinrich Keil, published for the first time in 1736.

Photo PERNETY, Antoine-Joseph. 

PERNETY, Antoine-Joseph. 

Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique dans lequel on trouve les Allégories Fabuleuses des Poètes, les Métaphores, les énigmes et les Termes barbares des Philosophes Hermétiques expliqués. 

Paris, Bauche, 1758.
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650 €

First edition of this important source for knowledge of the history of alchemy and its symbols.

Photo LEMERY (Nicolas) augmenté par BARON. 

LEMERY (Nicolas) augmenté par BARON. 

Cours de chymie contenant la manière de faire les opérations qui sont en usage dans la Médecine par une Méthode facile. Avec des raisonnemens sur chaque Opération, pour l'Instruction de ceux qui veulent s'appliquer à cette science. Nouvelle édition Revue, corrigée & augmentée. 

Paris, Laurent-Charles d'Houry, 1757.
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700 €

French chemist, Nicolas LEMERY was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1645. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of C. Glaser's in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures. Lemery did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, but holding chemistry to be a demonstrative science, confined himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. In consequence, his lecture-room was thronged with people of all sorts, anxious to hear a man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science. Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a standard work.
The 1756's edition (the first one in 4to) is considered by Dorbon and P.Larousse as the best one. The only difference with our edition (1757) is the title engraving which is without the artist signature.

Photo ORSCHALL, Johann Christian. 

ORSCHALL, Johann Christian. 

Oeuvres métallurgiques, contenant : I. l'Art de la Fonderie - II. un traité de la Liquation - III. un traité de la Macération des Mines - IV. le traité des trois Merveilles. 

Paris, Hardy, 1760.
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700 €

First french edition.
The collected edition of the author's scattered German works on mining, metallurgy, and metallurgical chemistry, translate by Baron d'Holbach.
Detailed descriptions are given of three alchemical processes for making large quantities of gold.
Despite its alchemical overtones, the book gives much valuable information on extractive metallurgy.

Orschall remains known for his description of a process for obtaining false rubies by dyeing glass (described in this work).

Photo AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative. 

Paris, Méquignon Le Jeune, 1774.
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750 €

The famous purgative powder of Ailhaud true "universal medicine" is a preparation of scammony that cured all diseases.
Its success was enormous and made the richness of its inventor.
This book is a defense of this remedy against the growing criticism of the physicians of the time.

FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING.

Photo HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van. 

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van. 

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.
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850 €

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

Photo GLAUBER, Jean Rodolphe. 

GLAUBER, Jean Rodolphe. 

Miraculum mundi, sive plena perfectaque descriptio admirabilis naturae ac proprietatis potentissimi subiecti, ab antiquis menstruum philosophorum dicti : quo vegetabilia, animalia & mineralia facillime in faluberrima medicamenta, & imperfecta metalla in permanentia ac perfecta transmutari possunt. 

Amsterdam, Joannem Janssonium, 1653.
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900 €

First Latin edition.
Rare copy.

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Cours de Chymie. 

Paris, Chez l'autheur, 1677.
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950 €

The rare second edition.

Photo CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, suivi du traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde. 

Rouen, David du Petit Val, 1634.
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1200 €

Rare French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.

Photo LORRIS Guillaume de & MEUNG Jean de. 

LORRIS Guillaume de & MEUNG Jean de. 

Le Roman de la Rose, par Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, dit Clopinel.
Revu sur plusieurs éditions & sur quelques anciens manuscrits. Accompagné de plusieurs autres ouvrages, d'une préface historique, de notes & d'un glossaire. 

Paris, Veuve Pissot, 1735.
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1250 €

With the rare "Supplément au glossaire du Roman de la Rose (J.-B. Lantin de Damerey). 1737, J.Sirot at Dijon".

Photo FIORAVANTI, Léonard. 

FIORAVANTI, Léonard. 

Miroir universel des arts et sciences. 

Paris, Regnault Chaudiere, 1598.
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1250 €

Rare work of spagyric medicine.
Our copy, in accordance with what the title page announces, and unlike the copy Dorbon describes, is complete with the second part "Les Caprices touching la médecine".
This last part contains the description of the philosopher's stone, the elixir of life and what will be known as the Balm of Fioravanti.
This balm was a panacea that had made its creator famous.

Photo [BELIN, Albert]. 

[BELIN, Albert]. 

Les Avantures du philosophe inconnu en la recherche & en l'invention de la Pierre Philosophale. 

Paris, Jacques de Laize-de-Bresche, 1674.
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1350 €

Second edition of this rare alchemical work.

Photo SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680. 

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.
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1350 €

Bound together, two rare works by Gottfried Schultz (1643-1698) based on the work of Johann Michaelis (1606-1667).

1. First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

2. First edition.
Work devoted to the preparation and use of cinnabar (mercury sulphide) in the pharmacopoeia. The author discusses the different forms of cinnabar, natural cinnabar, cinnabar of antimony, ...
It is Paracelsus who first popularizes the use of cinnabar in medicine with its antimony oil.
At the end we find an appendage devoted to magnetic plaster.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

Photo PLANIS CAMPY, David de. 

PLANIS CAMPY, David de. 

L’Hydre morbifique exterminée par l’Hercule chimique ou les sept maladies tenues pour incurables jusques à présent, rendues guérissables par l’art chimique médical. 

Paris, Hervé du Mesnil, 1628.
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1500 €

The first edition.
Complete with thebeautiful extra engraved title and the portrait.
One of the most interesting ancient medical books, based on alchemy and astrology (Dorbon).

Photo MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1640.
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1500 €

Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) is a German physician and alchemist. In his Thesaurus, he gives us his best recipes of ointments, emplatres, liqueurs for medicine. As always at this time, chemistry, alchemy and pharmacopoeia are closely intertwined.
In the Testamentum Hadrianeum following the Thesaurus, we are given in a versified form the secret of the philosopher's stone of Mynsicht.
Rare edition not spotted by Ferguson, nor Caillet.

Photo PERERIUS, Benedictus. 

PERERIUS, Benedictus. 

Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas Artes. Id est, de Magia, de Observasione Somniorum et de Divinatione Astrologica. 

Lugduni, Officina Juntarum, 1592.
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1750 €

Rare treaty on witchcraft and magic of the sixteenth century.
Lyon first edition (first in 1591), well complete with the last blank leaf (with old manuscript notes).
The book is divided into three parts. The first deals with different aspects of magic, the second is about dreams and their interpretation and the last on astrology.

Photo [ALARY, François]. 

[ALARY, François]. 

Le Parnasse Assiégé ou la Guerre Declarée entre les Philosophes Anciens & Modernes. 

Lyon, Antoine Boudet, 1697.
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1750 €

First edtion.
It is only recently that the author of this rare treatise has been identified through the work of Didier Kahn. François Alary is also the author of the famous Texte d'Alchymie, et le songe-verd.
"It is a very curious effusion in which the author attemps to prove the reality of the Hermetic Science and the correctness of the views of Paracelsus" (Duveen).

Photo CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene. 

Lyon, Pierre Drobet, 1627.
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1750 €

Second French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.
Edition with engraved title page.

Photo NUYSEMENT, Clovis Hesteau sieur de. 

NUYSEMENT, Clovis Hesteau sieur de. 

Traittez du vray sel, secret des philosophes, et de l'esprit général du monde.
Contenant en son intérieur les trois Principes naturels, selon la doctrine d'Hermes. 

Paris, Jeremie Perier & Abdias Buizard, 1621.
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1750 €

Rare first edition.

Photo [SENDIVOGIUS, Michel]. 

[SENDIVOGIUS, Michel]. 

Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumière chymique. 

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1723.
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1800 €

Latest expanded edition.
Contains the following three treatises:
I - of nature in general, where Mercury is spoken of.
II - Sulfur
III - real Salt of the philosophers
as well as with separate pagination the Philosophical Letter of Antoine Duval.

At the end of the first treatise are the "Philosophical Enigma to the Sons of Truth" and the curious "Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature".

Sethon Alexander spent his life convinced of the reality of alchemy.
Completely disinterested, he went from town to town to convince the most incredulous by making transmutes lead into gold.
The product of its transmutations is given to the public.
His reputation was growing and he was called to the course of the Elector of Saxony, Christian II, where he made a transmutation.
Gold produced withstood all tests. Then told to give her secret. Sethon refused, he was tortured and imprisoned in vain.

He was released by Michael Sendivogius to whom he gave his supply of philosopher's stone and manuscripts. He died shortly afterwards from his injuries.
After marrying his widow, Sendivogius Sethon treaties under the name of Cosmopolitan.


Here the evidence of a transmutation performed before the scientific and Wolfgang Jacob Zwinger Deinheim (in de medicina Miberali. Argentorate. 1610)

"In 1602, writes Dr. Dienheim, when in the middle of summer I returned from Rome to Germany, I found myself next to a man singularly spiritual, small in size but big enough, a face colored of a sanguine temperament, wearing a brown beard trimmed to the fashion of France. He was wearing a black satin dress and had every sequence a single servant, that could distinguish among all by his red hair and beard the same color. The man was Alexander was born Sethonius.Il Molia, an island in the ocean. In Zurich, where the priest gave him a letter Tghlin for Dr. Zvinger, we hired a boat and we went by water to Basel. When we arrived in this city, my companion said: -

"You remember that, throughout the trip and the boat. you attacked alchemy and alchemists. You will also recall that I promised to answer, not demonstrations, but by a philosophical action. I still await someone I want to convince the same time as you. so that the opponents of alchemy cease their doubts about this art. "

It was then looking for the man in question, I knew only by sight and who did not live far from our hotel. I learned later that it was Dr Jacob Zvinger, whose family has so many famous naturalists. We went every three workers in a gold mine, with several sheets of lead that had Zvinger removed from his house, a crucible that we took a goldsmith, and sulfur that we bought in ordinary way. Sethon not touched anything. He made the fire, ordered to lead and sulfur in the crucible, place the lid and shake the ground with sticks. Meanwhile, he chatted with us. After a quarter of an hour. He says: -

"Take this little paper in the molten lead, but the middle and try that nothing falls into the fire !...»

In this paper was a pretty heavy powder, a color that seemed to lemon yellow; the rest, he must have good eyes to distinguish. Although also incredulous that St. Thomas himself, we did everything we had ordered. After the mass had been heated about a quarter of an hour, and continuously stirred with rods of iron, the goldsmith was ordered off the pot by pouring water on it, but there was the slightest trace of lead, we found the purest gold, which, in the opinion of the goldsmith, surpassed even as the fine gold of Hungary and Saudi. It weighed as much as lead, which he had taken the place. We sat stunned with astonishment was scarcely dare we believe our eyes. But Sethonius, mocking us:
- "Now, he says, where are you with your pedantry? You see the truth of the matter, and is more powerful than everything, even your sophistry. -

Then he cut a piece of gold, and gave a souvenir to Zvinger. I also kept a piece that weighed about four ducats, and I kept in mind that day. As for you, unbelievers, you will laugh perhaps what I write. But I still live, and I am a witness ready to say what I saw. Zwinger is still alive but he will not keep quiet and will testify about what I say. Sethonius still live and his servant, the latter in England and the first in Germany, as we know. I could even say exactly where he lives, if there were not too indiscreet in which research should engage to find out what happened to this great man, this saint, this half -god. "

Jacob Zwinger, including Dr. Dienheim invokes the testimony, was a physician and professor at Basel, outside of these titles, he enjoyed a high reputation for learning, and he left a highly respected name in the history of German medicine.
This impeccable witness died of the plague in 1610. But from the year 1606, it confirmed until the last detail the story of John Wolfgang Dienheim in a Latin letter Emmanuel Konig, professor at Basel, had printed in his Almanac.
The same letter tells us that before leaving Basel Sethon made a second attempt in the house of the silversmith Andrew Bletz, where he changed in several ounces of gold lead. As for the piece of gold he had given Zwinger, we read in the library of chemical Manget that the family of the doctor kept and made him long to see foreigners and curious.

One of the most significant treaty on conventional alchemy.

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