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an old book with writing on it and a picture of a man riding a horsean old book is open on a white surfacean old book with a black and white image on it
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Alchemy Hollandus, Johan Isaac *Tractatus de Lapide Philosophico* or *On the Philosopher’s Stone*. With a large woodcut title vignette. Frankfurt, Götzen, printed by Blasius Ilßner, 1669. 4 leaves, 175 pp. Contemporary half-leather binding with (faded) title label (slightly stained, bumped and scuffed, faded stamp on front cover). Probably the first German edition. – VD17 39:116948Z – Duveen 301 – Brüning 2197. – An important alchemical work, structured like a recipe book and handbook. The work describes in detail methods for purifying and refining base (‘dead and impure’) metals. The aim is their transformation in accordance with the alchemical principles of the Sun (Sol, gold) and the Moon (Luna). - Included: *The Philosophical Father’s Heart, Now Unsealed, Since, with the Present Proliferation (According to Theophrastus’s Account), of the Stellar-Fluid Fragrance of the Flower, the High Divine Gift of Universal Medicine Could No Longer Remain Concealed*. Strasbourg, Zetzner, 1659. 2 leaves, 76 pp. – First edition. – VD17 23:240641R. – Bound with: Hermetis Trismegisti Tabulae Smaragdinae Explicatio. No place or printer, 1667. 36 leaves. – VD17 1:641943L – Inside cover and endpapers with extensive owner’s notes and marginalia, including a stamp by Heinrich Tränker; reverse of title page with notes and a stamp by Robert Petroschka. Partly slightly stained, with markings and small marginal notes in an old hand; furthermore, over 135 leaves (!) have been bound into the collection, the majority of which are densely written (alchemical notes and texts in an old hand, 2 sheets from clippings, halved). Alchemy. – Probably the first German edition. – VD17 39:116948Z – Duveen 301 – Brüning 2197. – An important alchemical work, structured as a recipe and handbook. The work describes in detail methods for purifying and refining base (‘dead and impure’) metals. The aim is their transformation in accordance with the alchemical principles of the Sun (Sol, gold) and the Moon (Luna). Bound with the material listed above.
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