Descript |
[6], 193, [4], 32 p. |
Note |
Each treatise (except the last) has special t.p. dated 1683. The last treatise has special t.p. with imprint date 1684. |
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"The secret of the immortal liquor" has added t.p. in Latin and text in English and Latin. |
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"The tomb of Semiramis" appears separately at reel 178:18, and has been cataloged separately. |
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Reproduction of original in British Library. |
Contents |
The secret of the immortal liquor called alkahest, or ignisaqua / by Eirenaeus Philatethes [pseud.] -- The practice of lights, or, An excellent and ancient treatise of the philosophers stone -- Praecipiolum, or, The immature-mineral-electrum / by J.B. Van-Helmont -- Aurum-potabile, or, The receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie -- A treatise of Bernard, Earl of Trevisan, of the philosophers stone -- The bosome-book of Sir George Ripley -- Speculum alchymiae = The true glass of alchemy / by Roger Bacon -- The admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl, which is made of sulphur-vive, set on fire and called commonly oyl of sulphur per campanem / G. Starkey -- Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine / written by Sir H. Platt -- The tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed. |
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