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Occult sciences, hidden from the profane world.
For a long time, these beliefs took the place of Knowledge for what the “exoteric” Sciences could not explain.
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Photo ARTÉMIDORE d'ÉPHÈSE. 

ARTÉMIDORE d'ÉPHÈSE. 

Les jugemens astronomiques des songes, par Artemidorus, autheur ancien & renommé.
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Le Livre d'Auguste Niphe des divinations, & Augures, par Antoine du Moulin. 

Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576.
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1500 €

This rare treaty of dream interpretation - Oneirokritika in Greek - is the only ancient Greek civilization work on this subjet, to have survived in full.
Artemidorus make a detailed technical treaty that was extremely popular during the Middle Ages.
Freud wrote on the great importance of this book in its "Die Traumdeutung".

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 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 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 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 [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.

Photo AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE. 

AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE. 

Recueil des pièces concernant le procès entre la Demoiselle Cadière, de la Ville de Toulon et le Père Girard, Jésuite. 

s.l., s.n., 1731.
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1950 €

Collection of 45 pieces of the witchcraft trials of Girard priest, accused of bewitching, raped and aborted on a girl of Toulon, Catherine Cadière.

Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 

[REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 

Le Filet d'Ariadne : pour entrer avec seureté dans le labyrinthe de la philosophie hermétique. 

Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1695.
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2000 €

First edition in french.
Unusual work of alchemy of which bibliographers do not agree on the identity of the author.
For some [Dorbon, Caillet, Lenglet Dufresnoy] it is the German author Christophe Reibehand whose work was originally published in Latin in 1636.
For others [Brunet, Duveen, Ferguson] it is Gaston Le Doux (or Duclos or Claves).
Some figures on wood in the text illustrate the equipment of an alchemical laboratory.
If no bibliographer mentions the presence of a plate, certain rare copies have a folding table classically giving the correspondence between the alchemical symbols and the compounds used. This board is missing here.

Photo BIZOUARD, Joseph. 

BIZOUARD, Joseph. 

Des Rapports de l'Homme avec le Démon, essai historique et philosophique. 

Paris, Gaume frères et Duprey, 1863-1864.
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2000 €

First edition.
A work highly regarded as indispensable to any occult library.

Divided into 36 parts: the first four deal with the times when idolatry reigned, the fifth with the Middle Ages and finally in the other parts, Bizouard studies magic and witchcraft from the 16th to the 19th century.
Stanislas de Guaita's copy (manuscrit ex libris on freeflyleaf).

Photo MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien. 

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien. 

Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, séduite par un magicien, la faisant sorcière & princesse des sorciers au païs de Provence, conduite à la Scte Baume pour y estre exorcizée l'an M. DC. X. au mois de Nouembre
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Discours des esprits en tant qu'il est de besoin, pour entendre & résoudre la matière difficile des Sorciers. 

Lyon, Charles Chastellain, 1613.
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2000 €

The "Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, " is a rare work of sorcery which traces the history of Louis Gaufridy, burnt alive as a sorcerer, by a decree of the Parliament of Aix of April 30, 1611, and which contains the record of the exorcisms practiced from 27 November 1610 to 23 April 1611 on two Ursulines of Aix, Magdaleine of Demandouls and Louyse Capeau

Bound after is the "Discours des esprits", a rare Treaty of demonology, one of the most complete (Dorbon).
The first edition was published in 1587 under the title "Pneumalogie ou discours des esprits".
This work is on the devil, witches, incubi and succubi, ...
A very good copy.

Photo RANTZAU, Henrik. 

RANTZAU, Henrik. 

Traité astrologique des jugemens des thèmes genetliaques pour tous les accidens qui arrivent à l’homme après sa naissance. 

Paris, Pierre Ménard, 1657.
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2000 €

Very rare first french edition of one of the most comprehensive and esteemed treaties of astrology.
Our copy contains the eight pages "de la façon de construire la figure céleste" which are often missing.

Photo EYQUEM du MARTINEAU, Mathurin. 

EYQUEM du MARTINEAU, Mathurin. 

Le pilote de l'onde vive, ou le secret du flux et reflux de la mer. 

Paris, Jean Dhoury, 1678.
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2200 €

Rare first edition of this alchemical work.
With the author signature on the title page.

Photo LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus]. 

LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus]. 

Les Secrets miracles de nature et divers enseignemens de plusieurs choses. 

Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1566.
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2500 €

First french edition.
A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Livre pour les communications dicté l'esprit de. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1867].
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2500 €

Very rare manuscript of spiritualist session reports.
The spiritualist wave arrived in France in 1854, and spread to all walks of life. We will remember, for example, the famous sessions of Victor Hugo in Guernsey...
In the following decades, all bourgeois families tried to turn the tables or dance. Methods of spiritualist contact are becoming more refined, we are seeing automatic writing methods appear in the presence or absence of a medium.

Very few of the sessions from this period have left written traces; the manuscript we present is the transcription of automatic writing sessions that took place between October 1866 and March 1867 in the Moret family. The first sessions took place in the presence of the medium Ms. Parain then in Bordeaux with the help of Ms. Benoit. Mrs. X. (unidentified) first contacted her grandfather Louis Pierre Moret. This is also why she transcribed the content of her communications in this notebook which belonged to her grandfather. The first communications are short, but little by little the mind gains confidence and the communications are longer. It was then his mother Marie Louise Moulins who “took up” the pen, then his father Moret. It is also amusing to note that the signatures of the spirits gradually become different.

The spirits advise their descendants to pray for them, to be charitable and above all to spread the ideas of spiritualism! We know that her husband tried a session but seems very skeptical...In a communication one of the spirits evokes the Other world which is organized into planets hierarchized according to the degree of wisdom, the summit seems to be the planet Juno .

70-page manuscript, quite fascinating to read!

The book is continued by another hand (probably at the beginning of the 20th century) who used it as a sort of amicorum album to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

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 LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

Traicté de la Chymie. 

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1660.
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2500 €

First edition.
Nicolas Lefèvre [id is Le Febvre] was a chemistry teacher at the Jardin des Plantes. He then became a member of the Royal Academy in London, a city to which he had come at the request of King Charles II of England.
A skilful chemist, people in the art praise the exactness with which he describes the operations and reports their results. It also indicates the means of recognizing fraud in pharmaceutical preparations.
A great admirer of Paracelsus, he claimed to have discovered, like him, a secret for restoring or maintaining all the vigor of youth in advanced age.
His chemistry course was a great success, went through several editions and was translated into several languages.

Photo GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf. 

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf. 

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.
[Reliés à la suite :]
- La Teinture de l'or ou le véritable or potable
- Traitté de la Médecine universelle, ou le vray or potable.
- 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.
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2500 €

First edition in French.
Rare treatises on Glauber's alchemy.
The 3 parts of the mineral work as well as the three linked works have a title page and a separate pagination.

Our copy contains the treatise on "or potable" panacea widely used throughout the Renaissance.

Photo [BELIN, Albert]. 

[BELIN, Albert]. 

Apologie du Grand OEuvre, ou Élixir des philosophes, dit vulgairement pierre philosophale. 

Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1659.
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2500 €

Bound with :
- Traité des Talismans, ou figures astrales. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658 .
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- La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658
The three works in first edition.

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.

Photo LE BRETON, Jean. 

LE BRETON, Jean. 

Les Clefs de la Philosophie Spagyrique, qui donnent la connoissance des Principes & des véritables opérations de cet Art dans les Mixtes des trois genres. 

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1722.
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3000 €

Scarce first edition of this important alchemical treatise.
Le Breton's Les Clefs de la Philosophie spagirique (1722) is quoted at least twice by Fulcanelli in Le Mystère des Cathédrales.
1.
"Selon Le Breton, « il y a quatre putréfactions dans l’Œuvre philosophique. La première, dans la
première séparation ; la seconde, dans la première conjonction ; la troisième dans la seconde
conjonction, qui se fait de l’eau pesante avec son sel ; la quatrième, enfin, dans la fixation de
soulphre. Dans chacune de ces putréfactions, la noirceur arrive. » [Le Breton, Clefs de la
Philosophie Spagyrique. Paris, Jombert, 1722, p. 282.] "
2.
« Il y a, dit Le Breton, un minéral connu des vrais Sçavans qui le cachent dans leurs écrits sous
divers noms, lequel contient abondamment le fixe et le volatil. » [Le Breton, Clefs de la
Philosophie Spagyrique. Paris, Jombert, 1722, p. 240.]

Very good copy.

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 || [SENDIVOGIUS] || [Sethon]. 

NUYSEMENT, Clovis Hesteau sieur de || [SENDIVOGIUS] || [Sethon]. 

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.
- et: 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.
- Suivi de: [SENDIVOGIUS] 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.
- et: 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, 1639-1640.
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3500 €

Rare edition featuring four famous alchemical treatises.
Our copy is well complete with the general title page "Oeuvre de la physique naturelle contenant les trois principes des philosophes. Th. Maire. La Haye. 1640" (see Caillet).

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.
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5000 €

First french translation of the alchemical works of Glauber by Du Teil.
Five major texts of Glauber, contemporary bound in two volumes. Rare when as here in uniform binding. Usually these volumes are sold separatly.

The "description des nouveaux fourneaux philosophiques" is complete of all illustrations an with the "Annotations" that is often missing.
Glauber is the Paracelsus of his time (Hoefer). He made many discoveries in chemistry (he discovered the sodium sulfate was then called Glauber's salt and is one of the first to glimpse the existence of chlorine).
Like Paracelsus, Glauber support operations and alchemical theories.
In this book, that Ferguson considers as one of the most remarkable 17th century books of chemistry, Glauber describes the manufacture of furnaces and their use for the distillation, the preparation of oils,'' the extraction, separation metals and manufacture of salves.
Not in Young, Duveen, Neville ...

The 'appendix is bound at the head of Volume 2. Following are bound with separate pagination and title pages the three parts of the "'Oeuvre minérale" the the "La teinture de l'or", "le traitté de la Médecine universelle" and finally the "la consolation des navigants".

Photo PHILALETHE, Eiraeneus. 

PHILALETHE, Eiraeneus. 

Introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium. 

Amsterdam, Joannemm Janssonium, 1667.
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7500 €

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

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