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The now lost secret of the eternally burning lamp View picture(s) 1 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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The second issue of the extremely rare first edition of this lavishly illustrated alchemistic work View picture(s) 2 (COENDERS VAN HELPEN, Barent). Escalier des sages ou la philosophie des anciens. Avec des belles figures. Par un amateur de la verité qui a pour l'anagramme de son nom En debes pulchra ferundo scire. Groningen, Charles Pieman, 1689. Folio. Three quarter 19th century red morocco, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in gold, marbled boards. With engraved allegorical frontispiece and 18 full-page engraved plates: 5 with geometrical figures and 13 of mystical/allegorical content. (6), 240, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Cartography  Dutch  Groningen  Low Countries  Mystics  Occult  Portraits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A controversial scholar criticizes science View picture(s) 3 AGRIPPA, Henricus Cornelius. De incertitude & vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva, denuo ab autore recognita & marginalibus annotationibus aucta. Capita tractandorum totius operis, sequens indicabit pagella. (Cologne), 1537. Small 8vo. Later half calf, gilt and decorated spine with tiltle lettered in gold and former pasted shelf number, blue speckled edges. Woodcut portrait of the author on title, the date 'MXXXVII' printed underneath, with an added D in manuscript between the M and first X. (4, 188) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Alchemy  Arithmetics  Art  Economy  Geometry  Medicine  Occult  Occult Sciences  Optics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two treatises on magic and the marvels of the Universe attributed to Albertus Magnus in a very rare Antwerp edition of 1502 View picture(s) 4 ALBERTUS MAGNUS (Pseudo-). [Liber aggregationibus] De virtutibus herbarum. De virtutibus lapidum. De virutibus animalium et mirabilibus mundi. Item parvum regimen sanitatis valde utile. Antwerp, Govaert Bac, 1502. 4to. Nineteenth-century polished calf with double gilt lines along the edges of both sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. With a full-page woodcut (115 x 84 mm) of a monk offering a book to a prince, repeated on the verso of the title; and full-page woodcut of the printer's device of Govaert Bac on the verso of the last leaf (133 x 84 mm): 'g [masters mark] b' cut within a birdcage on a black fond, with the coat of arms of Antwerp underneath (see NAT II, 5-6); rubricated in red throughout. 36 lvs. (Collation: a8, b4, c8, d4, e8, f4). 36 ll. to a page. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Medicine  Middle Ages  Mineralogy  Occult Sciences  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Four rare works on alchemy, chemistry and medicine bound together in a signed and dated 16th-century pigskin binding View picture(s) 5 BARNAUD, Nicolas. Tractatulus chemicus, theosophiae palmarium dictus, anonymi cuiusdam Philosophi antiqui a Nicolao Barnaudo ... nunc primùm editus, & Avriga ad quadrigam auriferam, quam superiore anno emisit, ducendam factus; quemque brevi (Deo dante) generosi equi, de eadem sacrâ philosophiâ tractantes, sequentur. Leiden, Thomas Basson, 1601. 8vo. Contemporary (or somewhat earlier) blind tooled and panel-stamped pigskin with a panel of the Crucifixion (82 x 50 mm) on the front cover and Lady Justice-panel (78 x 48mm) on the back cover, spine with raised bands and titels in contemporary handwriting, leather ties, blue painted edges. The Crucifixion panel is dated and signed! The text underneath reads: "RESPICE : ME : CONDE / : ANIMO : IN PECTORE ... / SEPUA 1563 CK (or GK?)"; the text underneath the Justitia-panel reads: "IUSTICIA : QUIS : QUIS PI / CTURA : .... / ... DEUS EST IUSTUS". Printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials. (26) lvs. (Collation: A-C8, D2). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Eclipses  Franeker  Leyden  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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300 magic tricks to illustrate the fact that science also can be amusing View picture(s) 6 CARAMUELIUS, Aspasius (= SCHOTT, Caspar) & Anastasius Kircher. Ioco-Seriorum naturae et Artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres. Accessit diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus. (Würzburg), no printer, (1666). 4to. Contemporary vellum over boards. With engraved allegorical title and 22 engraved plates, one of which folding. (4), 363, (1 blank, 8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Magic & Conjuring  Occult  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Scot and a Dane in support of Paracelsus View picture(s) 7 DAVISSON, William. Commentariorum in sublimis philosophi & incomparabilis viri Petri Severini Dani ideam medicinae philosophicae,  propediem proditurorum prodromus. In quo Platonicae doctrinae explicantur fundamenta, super quae Hippocrates, Paracelsus & Severinus: nec non  ex antithesi, Aristoteles & Galenus sua stabilivere dogmata.- (IDEM). Totius Operis  adumbratio. In qua hypotheses physiologiae profundiorum & insuetarum locutionum sensus, aequivocationum & synonimorum denodationes, indicationes diagnosticae, & leges curativae juxta authoris & Hippocratis mentem expanduntur. The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1660. 2 parts in one. 4to. Contemporary calf, ribbed spine with red title-label lettered in gold; in a modern slip-case. Title printed in red and black; title of the 'Adumbratio' with engraved vignette with coat of arms; one folded engraved plate and two full-page engravings in the text; one folded printed table. (12), 708 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three works on metallurgy and chemistry in one View picture(s) 8 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  Gold  Magnetism  Medicine  Metals  Mineralogy  Science  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Teaching all alchemists' and occult knowledge View picture(s) 9 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 by the famous Brussels reformist in medicine Johannes Baptista van Helmont View picture(s) 10 HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam. Amsterdam, Ludovicus Elzevier, 1648. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, both sides elaborately blindtooled. Printer's device on title, full-page engraved plate with portraits of  Helmont and his son Franciscus Mercurius, surrounded by eight coat of arms of related families, woodcut initials & endpieces. (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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Unrecorded edition of a Dutch handbook on distillation View picture(s) 11 J.K.B. Verbeterde nieuw ontdekte distilleer en stook-konst. Behelzende een uitvoerig bericht, van de maat en gewichten, konstwoorden, werktuigen, luteren, het vuur, inweeking, moutmaking, stooken en distilleeren van ruwe en fyne wateren, olien en cordialen: Het distilleeren van gewassen en planten; wyn, azyn &c. Eerst beschreven door J.K.B. ervaren distillateur. Tweeden druk. Overzien, verbeterd, vermeerderd en verrykt met veele fraaye geheimen door Polyhistor. Tweede druk. Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt. 1763. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum. With engraved frontispiece of the interior of a distillery, "De nieuw ontdekte distilleer konst"  with the imprint: "Te Amsterdam by Steven van Esveldt, boekverkoper", 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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Rare works on alchemy View picture(s) 12 LIBAVIUS, Andreas. D.O.M.A. Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum alchymiae arcanorum. Tomus primus. In quem congesta sunt commentaria chymia hactenus desiderata: insertis passim scholiis, & commentationibus ipsis, ad penitissima huius philosophia & medicina ducentibus. 1615.- IDEM. D.O.M.A. Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum. Tomus secundus. In quem congesta sunt: partim nova, eaque penitiora spagyrorum secreta, partim prioris tomi nonnulla explicatius tradita, & inter ea etiam enigmatica quercetani, aliorumque hermeticorum non pauca studiose investigata, declarata & iudicata. 1613.- IDEM. D.O.M.A. Appendix syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum. In qua praeter arcanorum nonnullorum expositionem & illustrationem, quorundam item medicorum hermeticorum, & mysticorum descriptionem, continentur defensiones gemina, primum eorum qua ab Henningo Scheunemano, & iuniore Gramano sunt impugnata, postea qua in transmutatoria metallorum à Nicolao Guiberto, Lotharingo, M.D. quibus fieri potuit viribu sunt attentata.1615. Frankfurt, Nicolaus Hoffmann, for Petrus Kopf, 1613-1615. 3 works in 3 vols. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed in 7 compartments with gilt ornaments, red and green sprinkled edges. Engraved allegorical titles in vols. I and II, depicting Hippocrates, Hermes, Galenus and Aristotle around the title vignette, below the title 5 small illustrations show alchemic scenes, woodcut printer's device on title and on verso last page vol. III, numerous woodcut figures in text in vols. I & II, 1 woodcut plate and 3 double-page tabels in woodcut borders in vol. II. (12), 480, (8); (12), 453 (=450), (15); (12), 279, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Occult  Science  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) 13 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) 14 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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