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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 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 [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 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 ALBINEUS, Nathan. 

ALBINEUS, Nathan. 

Bibliotheca Chemica contracta. 

Genève, Joannis Ant. & Samuel de Tournes, 1653.
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2500 €

First edition.
Compilation of alchemical texts divided into four parts in separate pagination with particular title page for each of them. Among the treatises it contains are the Chrysopoeia and Vellus aureum of Augurelli, the Novum lumen chemicum and the De sulphure tractatus of Sendivogius, and the Aracanum hermeticae philosophiae opus of Jean d'Espagnet.
The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina) is included in the preface.
Albineus is the Latinized name of Nathan d'Aubigné de la Fosse, son of the famous Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné.

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 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.

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