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Alchemy Glaser, Christoph Novum laboratorium medico-chymicum, that is: A newly established school of chemical medicine and crafts, divided into three books; the first presents a brief yet clear instruction … in the fundamentals or theory … The second book reveals the customary techniques and methods … The third comprises, in three distinct sections … chemical and secret remedies and healing agents, compiled from the finest authors. Now, however … translated into High German by Joh. Marschalck … To which is appended a supplement dealing with the principles and understanding of nature, the elements, and all elemental things. With an engraved title page and 6 copper plates. Nuremberg, Endter 1677. 27 leaves, 666 pp., 7 leaves of contemporary paper with gold-stamped fillets, gold-stamped title and cover vignettes (somewhat stained, spine slightly bent). First German edition of Glaser’s *Traité de la chimie* (French first edition 1663). - VD 17 39:115904P - Krivatsy 4760 - Neu 1640 - Ferguson I, 319 - Duveen 251 - Brüning 2358 - Ferchl 186 - Glaser, a native of Basel, was court apothecary to Louis XVI and a professor of chemistry; he also became known for his – apparently involuntary – involvement in the poisonings carried out by the Marquise de Brinvilliers. “In this translation, the work became an important textbook for the Rosicrucian Brotherhood of the Theoretical Degree and thus also formed the basis for the Order’s later writings” (Brüning). The plates depict furnaces and chemical apparatus. – (Copperplate title page slightly stained and with small marginal discolouration. – Bound with: Mommius, G., *Radix Chimiae* or *Root of the Universal*. 1680. 159 pp. – VD 17, 14: 628622X. - Ferguson II, 242. - Neu 3425. - First edition. With the three appendices: I: Introductio Generalis Chymica. II: Dicta Alani. III: Anonymi tractatus philosophicus ad rubrum & album. IV: Processus lapidis philosophorum ex Mercurio corporis. – Text block slightly loose, with some minor marginal wear in places.
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