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Major work on subterranean physics View picture(s) 1 BECHER, Johann Joachim. Physica subterranea, profundam subterraneorum genesin è principiis hucusque ignotis, ostendens. Leipzig, Joh. Ludov. Gleditsch, 1703. 8vo. Later half vellum, speckled boards. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece. [32], 560, [2], 561-822, [3], 836-1008, [36], [8], 304, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three works on metallurgy and chemistry in one View picture(s) 2 FACHS, Modestin. Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. Darinnen gründlicher Bericht vermeldet wird wie man alle Metall und derselben zugehörende Metallische  Ertzte und Getöchte ein jedes auff seine Eigenschafft und Metall recht probiren soll; dessgleichen Lehr und Unterricht der rechten Probier-Ofen, Gewichten, Capellen und Flüssen. Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. 4 parts. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Title printed in red and black, folding engraved plate with cross-section of an oven. (20), 185, (9); 51, (1); 173 (1); 69, (7), (2) blank pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Chemistry  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Gold  Magnetism  Medicine  Metals  Science  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Faulhaber's mystical arithmetics, pyramidal numbers as key to biblical prophecies View picture(s) 3 FAULHABER, Johann. Andeutung, Einer unerhörten newen Wunderkunst. Welche der Geist Gottes, in etlichen Prophetischen, und Biblischen Geheimnuss Zahlen, bis auff die letzte Zeit hat wöllen versiegelt und verborgen halten. Darauss dann abzunehmen, das Gott zu allen zeiten die Ordnung gehalten, dass er in den fürnembsten General Propheceyungen, über die Hauptverenderungen sich der Piramidal Zahlen gebraucht wann er ein gewisse Zeit bestimmet. Ulm, Lorentz Miller, Nuremberg, Abraham Wagenmann, 1613. 4to. 19th-century half cloth, with paper title label on spine and side. [12] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Mathematics  Mystics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Teaching all alchemists' and occult knowledge View picture(s) 4 FOLLIN, Herman. Den Nederlandtsche sleutel van t'secreet der philosophie, in welck grondelijc bewesen wert, d'aert, so in 't generael, als in 't bysonder aller metallen, als goudt, silver, coper, etc. En die gheheele alchijmie, met  haer verborghentheden. Midsgaders d'eerste materie der Philosophen, dat is: Quinta essentia des wijns, met haren volcomen ghebruyck, en verclaringhe aller duystere woorden des voorsz. constes, op dat Paracelsus claerlijck in alles mach werden verstaen. Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman for Daniel de Keyser, 1613. Small 8vo. Modern vellum. With 3 half-page woodcuts in the text - one of them is repeated on the title -, all showing distilling apparatus. 76 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Friesland  Hermetica  Medicine  Occult  Occult Sciences  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two Elzevier editions of important works on medicine and chemistry View picture(s) 5 HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Ortus medicinae. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1648. With full-page engraved portrait of Helmont and his son Franciscus Mercurius, surrounded by eight coat of arms of related families. [36], 800 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Elzevier  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare second edition of a Dutch handbook on distillation View picture(s) 6 J.K.B. Verbeterde nieuw ontdekte distilleer en stook-konst. Tweede druk. Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt. 1763. 8vo. Contemporary half roan. With engraved frontispiece of the interior of a distillery and one half-page engraving of a press in the text. 272, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Dutch  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two famous tracts by two of the most interesting scholars of the Middle Ages View picture(s) 7 LULLIUS, Raimundus. De secretis naturae, sive quinta essentia libri duo. Hic accesserunt Alberti Magni De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinque. Quae omnia solerti cura repurgata rerum naturae studiosis recens publicata sunt per Gualtherum H. Ryff. Venice, Petrus Schoeffer, 1542. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With 8 woodcuts in the first part, showing an oven and various vessels. 324, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Alchemy  Occult  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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At the threshold of modern science View picture(s) 8 MAZZOTTA, Benedetto. De triplici philosophia naturali, astrologica, et minerali. In quibus differit cohaerenter de elementis, & varijs mixtorum proprietatibus. Possibilitate corporis physici cpmpleti non compositi. Productione mundi temporanea, & eius possibilitate ab aeterno. Compositione continui ex solis indivisibilibus finitis, & probaliter ex inflatis. Productione substantiae. Infinito. Intensione. Rarefactione, & condensatione. De modo formandi veros colores Lapidum pretiosorum. Specula ustoria, & praeparandi lapidem luminosum. De metheoris omnibus. Metallorum natura, & transmutatione, rebusque mineralibus, aliique; arcanis chymicis. Effectibus planetarum iuxta varias eorum configurationes, eclipsibus, & magnis coniunctionibus, alijsque causis coelestibus, & novis, praeter communes, planetarum aspectibus, & eorum significatis; alijsque quaestionibus naturalibus, astrologicis, & mineralibus. Opus theol. phil. medicis, chymicis, & astrologis iucundum, ac simul utile. Bologna, Io. Baptista Ferroni, 1653. 4to. Contemp. bound in a vellum leaf of a mediaeval musical manuscript. With large allegorical woodcut of the requisites of natural scientists and alchemists on title, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with flying cherubs and little naked children paying honour to the tree of knowledge comprising the coat of arms of Bologna, signed Il Coriolano, some astronomical woodcut figures and engravings in text, full-page engraved plate with illustrations of celestial fire, some woodcut tables, one full-page, of the signs of the Zodiac and numerous small astrological signs in text in the last part. (10, 2 blank), 148, 252 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Astrology  Astronomy & Cosmography  Occult  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unicorns, bezoar stones, emeralds & pearls for medicinal use View picture(s) 9 SILVATICUS (SELVATICO), Joannes Baptista. De Unicornu, Lapide Bezaar, Smaragdo, & Margaritis: eorumq. in Febribus Pestilen. usu Tractatio. Bergamo, Comino Ventura, 1605. 4to. 17th- or 18th-century sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine, blind-tooled board edges, later endpapers. Title-page in red and black with a woodcut publisher's device, 5 decorated woodcut initial letters (plus 2 repeats) and 5 woodcut decorations used as head- and tailpieces (plus 2 repeats). [7], [1 blank], 160 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Italy  Medicine  Occult  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The now lost secret of the eternally burning lamp View picture(s) 10 [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. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Alchemy  Chapbooks  Dutch  Literature  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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