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Photo ALBINEUS, Nathan. 

ALBINEUS, Nathan. 

Bibliotheca Chemica contracta. 

Genève, Joannis Ant. & Samuel de Tournes, 1653.
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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 WECKER, Jean Jacques. 

WECKER, Jean Jacques. 

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature. 

Lyon, Jean Aymée Candy, 1652.
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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 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.
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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 NUYSEMENT, Clovis Hesteau sieur de. 

NUYSEMENT, Clovis Hesteau sieur de. 

Oeuvre de la Physique naturelle contenant les trois principes des Philosophes. 

La Haye, Théodore Maire, 1640.
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A rare edition containing four famous alchemical treatises, each with a separate title page and pagination.
Our copy is complete with the general title page, which is missing from the Dorbon and Duveen copies.

1. NUYSEMENT. Traittez de l'Harmonie, et Constitution Generalle du Vray Sel, Secret des Philosophes, & de l’Esprit universel du monde, suivant le troisième principe du Cosmopolite. Oeuvre non moins curieux que profitable, traittant de la cognoissance de la vraye médecine chimique. La Haye, Théodore Maire, 1639.
2. NUYSEMENT. Poëme philosophic de la vérité de la physique minéralle, où sont réfutées les objections que peuvent faire les incrédules & ennemis de cet art. Auquel est naïfvement et véritablement dépeinte la vraye matière des philosophes. La Haye, Théodore Maire, 1639.
3. [SENDIVOGIUS, Michael]. Cosmopolite, ou nouvelle lumière de la physique naturelle. Traittant de la constitution générale des éléments simples et des composés. Traduit nouvellement de latin en françois par de Bosnay. La Haye, Théodore Maire, 1639.
4. [SENDIVOGIUS, Michael]. Traicté du soulphre, second principe de la nature. Faict par le mesme Autheur, qui par cy devant a mis en lumière le premier principe, intitulé le Cosmopolite. Traduit de latin en françois par F. Guiraud. La Haye, Théodore Maire, 1639.

Photo MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1640.
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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 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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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 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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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 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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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: Préface admonitoire, contenant les mysteres tres-profond & plus rares de la Philosophie tant naturelle que de la grace, touchant l'excellence de la medecine Chymique, & grandeur du Microcosme
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius"
- The third: Traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde.
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 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 FIORAVANTI, Léonard. 

FIORAVANTI, Léonard. 

Miroir universel des arts et sciences. 

Paris, Regnault Chaudiere, 1598.
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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 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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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 LACINIUS, Janus. 

LACINIUS, Janus. 

Praeciosa ac nobilissima artis chymiae collectanea de occultissimo ac praeciosissimo Philosophorum lapide. 

Norimbergae, Gabriel Hayn, 1554.
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2500 €

FIRST EDITION of this practical guide to alchemy. Lacinius's Pretiosa margarita novella de thesauro, ac pretiosissimo philosophorum lapide (taken from the fourteenth-century manuscript of Petrus Bonus) had previously been published by the Aldine press in Venice in 1546, and although this collection has a similar title, the contents are somewhat different.

Lacinius may have been a pseudonym; it is thought that the author was in fact Giovanni da Crotone, a Franciscan friar from Calabria.

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