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Photo VIGENERE, Blaise de.

VIGENERE, Blaise de.

Traicté du feu et du sel. Excellent et rare opuscule du Sieur Blaise de Vigenère, Bourbonnois, trouvé parmy ses papiers après son décès.

Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, 1642.

3500 €

Copy of the 1618 edition.
This classical alchimical treatise contains an interesting passage in which VigenEre described the discovery of the crystalline benzoic acid, obtained by the sublimation of gum benzoin (Partington).

Photo ARNAULD, Pierre || FLAMEL, Nicolas.

ARNAULD, Pierre || FLAMEL, Nicolas.

Trois traictez de la philosophie naturelle, non encore imprimez scavoir : le secret livre du très ancien philosophe Artephius, traitant de l'art occulte et transmutation mettalique. Plus les figures hiérogliphiques de Nicolas Flamel.

Paris, Guillaume Marette, 1612.

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First edition of Nicolas Flamel's Hieroglyphic Figures.
This text, attributed to the legendary French alchemist Nicolas Flamel, was written between 1399 and 1413. It is said to contain the secret of the Great Work and the Philosopher's Stone. The plate depicts the figures in the arcade of the small charnel house in the Cemetery of the Innocents, built by Nicolas Flamel in 1407, whose book of Hieroglyphic Figures is said to be the key to understanding. A fine copy of this text sought after by all alchemists.

Photo GLAUBER, Jean Rodolphe.

GLAUBER, Jean Rodolphe.

1. La Description des nouveaux fourneaux philosophiques, ou art distillatoire par le moyen duquel sont tirez les esprits, Huiles, Fleurs, & autres médicaments: Par une voye aisée & avec grand profit, des Vegetaux, Animaux, & Mineraux. Avec leur usage, tant dans la chymie, que dans la Medecine. Mis en lumiere en faveur des Amateurs de la Vérité par Jean Rodolphe Glauber et traduit en nostre langue par le Siuer Du Teil
2. Première [seconde, troisième] partie de l’oeuvre minérale, où est enseignée la séparation de l’Or des Pierres à feu, Sable, Argile, et autres Fossiles, par l’Esprit de Sel, ce qui ne se peut faire par autre voye. Comme aussi une Panacée, ou Médecine niverselle, antimoniale, & son usage.
3. La Teinture de l'or ou le véritable or potable
4. Traitté de la Médecine universelle, ou le vray or potable.
5. La Consolation des navigants. Dans laquelle est enseigné à ceux qui voyagent sur mer un moyen de se garantir de la faim & de la soif, voire mesme des maladies qui leur pourroient survenir durant un long voyage.

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1659.

5000 €

First edition in French.

Rare copy including all of Glauber's alchemical works published in French by Du Teil.

It is rare to find both "The Description of the New Philosophical Furnaces" and the collection of Glauber's small treatises in a uniform binding, as these are usually sold separately.

Glauber is the Paracelsus of his time (Hoefer). He made many discoveries in chemistry (he discovered sodium sulfate, then called Glauber's salt, and was one of the first to have glimpsed the existence of chlorine). Like Paracelsus, Glauber was a supporter of alchemical operations and theories. His work on recipes for panaceas and other marvelous medicines caused him the same harm as it did Paracelsus.

The Description of the Philosophical Furnaces is complete with all its illustrations and the "Annotations" which make up the sixth part, which is often missing.
In this work, which Ferguson considers one of the most remarkable chemistry books of the 17th century, Glauber describes the construction of furnaces and their use for distillation, the preparation of oils, extraction, the separation of metals, and the manufacture of balms. The appendix is bound at the head of volume 2.

Following are bound with separate title pages and pagination:
- Les trois parties de l'Oeuvre minérale
- La Teinture de l'or
- Le Traitté de la Médecine universelle
- La Consolation des navigants.

Rare set of Glauber's five alchemical treatises in French.

Photo PHILALETHE, Eiraeneus.

PHILALETHE, Eiraeneus.

Introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium.

Amsterdam, Joannemm Janssonium, 1667.

7500 €

The scarce first edition of this monument of the alchemical litterature.
Not in Duveen, Neville, Dorbon, Guaita, Verginelli, Ouvaroff.

Photo BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad.

BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad.

Elementa chemiae, quibus subjuncta est confectura lapidis philosophici imaginibus repræsentara.

Leyde, Theodorum Haak, 1718.

9000 €

Second edition.
While the original edition (Pyrosophia, Utrecht, 1698) included only the five plates depicting the chemistry laboratory and its instrumentation, our edition is enriched with 19 additional plates—printed here for the first time—featuring 78 symbolic figures tracing the stages of the alchemical process.
As noted by Adam McLean, this suite constitutes the only early reproduction of the images from The Crowning of Nature, the renowned medieval alchemical manuscript.
It is one of the rarest works devoted to the philosopher’s stone, with the hidden meaning of its symbolic illustrations giving rise to numerous interpretations. Among them appear some of the most familiar emblems of alchemical tradition, such as the ouroboros, the green lion, and the phoenix.

This work was studied—alongside the Mutus Liber—by psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung in his Psychology and Alchemy (1953), where he discusses in particular the symbolic resonance of the image of the “winged dragon consuming itself within the alchemical vessel” (a figure reproduced in Jung’s book).
Through it, Jung integrates Barchusen’s iconography into his broader reflection on the alchemical transformation of the self.

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