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The now lost secret of the eternally burning lamp
[CHAPBOOK - ALCHEMY].Historie van de Man met de Bonte Muts. Vervattende een verhaal van een wonderlyke ontdekking in Duitschland. In tien printverbeeldingen, met derzelver uitleggingen, onder het oog en oordeel van de waereld gebragt.      Den derden druk. Door een liefhebber van taal- en dichtkunde verbeterd. Rotterdam, J. Hendriksen, (1806). 4to. Orig. wrappers. With 10 double-page folding woodcut plates. (4), 20 pp. Rare pictorial chapbook, telling in woodcuts the popular story of the man with the fur-cap. An alchemist in Germany supposedly had discovered the secret of an eternally burning lamp. To keep his secret, the alchemist hid the lamp in the cellar under his castle, and built a kind of robot-man who he then sat at a table under the lamp with a club in his hand. When after the alchemist had died people came down into the cellar, this robot-man, who by the way was wearing a fur-cap, was set in motion as soon as feet touched the steps, and when they came near the robot-man then proceeded to crush the lamp with his club, so destroying the alchemist's secret. Good copy.- (Sl. frayed at edges; one plate rep.).
Buisman 845; Boekenoogen L 18159; Sale Cat. J.L. Beijers, Jan 1959 (Coll. Versnel), 344; Buijnsters, Verzamelen van Boeken, 2nd ed., p. 136; cf. Waller 762 (1st ed. by Erve Wed. J. van Egmont, 1771); Cat. Van Rijn 984 (2nd. ed. by Erve Wed. J. van Egmont, incomplete); Sale Cat. Coll. Buisman 376-377 (1st ed. of 1771, and 2nd ed. of ca. 1790, lacking a plate); Bibelebontse Berg pp. 191-192 (1st ed. of 1771, with illustr.); no edition in KLKL, Muller, De Vries, nor Scheepers.
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