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Alchemy Naxagoras, Ehrd von and Kunckel (von Löwenstern), Johannes Royal Hermetic Special Concordance, in which it, together with its entire foundation, is set out, in accordance with the division as indicated and shown in the ‘Conspectus Capitum & Contentorum’ immediately on the following page, together with the same defence of honour, or a sufficiently well-founded opinion, that the concordance from the books of the Philosophers is not only possible and correct to compile, but also that the false ones may be quite easily distinguished from the true philosophers. All published under the guidance of Mr Johann Kunckel von Löwenstern … by Dr Joh. Caspar Engelleder … With a double-page title page in black and red. Breslau and Leipzig, Huber, 1724. 703 (recte 701) pp. Contemporary half-leather binding with handwritten title label and some pasted-over areas (slightly rubbed, small mark on the front cover). Ferchl 280 – Caillet 5856 (erroneously dated 1824) – Brüning 3884: ‘The second edition of the anonymous pamphlet directed against Kunkel, first published in 1723’. - Bound together with: Johann Gottfried Meister, Curious Historical Account of the Transformation of Base Metals into Better Ones, published for the amusement of gold-hungry laboratory workers. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1726. 92 pp., 1 folio. – Brüning 3947: “The first edition of this rare treatise, which is missing from Ferguson’s catalogue.” – Included: Paul Lauder?, *Aureæ catenæ Homeri, Part Three: On the Transmutation of Metals*, or a description of the tinctures, how such may be prepared from all ores, metals, etc., and thereby transform base metals and precious stones into better ones... Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1727. 59 pp. – Fictuld “Probier-Stein”, 1753 II, 33: “a collection of falsehoods and sophistical assertions which lead those who believe in them to misfortune.” - Slighted, name stamp on inside cover (Heinrich Tränker), faded stamps on title pages 1 and 2.
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