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IMPORTANT AND RARE ALCHEMICAL WORK. Artis auriferae, quam chemiam vocant. Basel (Conrad Waldkirch) 1610. 3 parts in one volume.

8vo (163x96 mm). (16), 405, (23), (4 blanks), 346, (16), (2 blanks), 185, (5) pp. Woodcut illustrations, some half page, woodcut device on second and third titles (lacking final blank leaf, some repaired leaves, last text leaf repaired with japan paper, occasionally with small losses, some leaves with tears, occasional staining, browning and soiling, few burn holes.)
Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (partly worn and soiled, lacking ties, some chips and stains). Provenance: Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum (bookseller´s label on inside of cover together with his text leaf).

Caillet 477 (´Recueil rare et important´), Duveen p.29-30, Ferguson I, 51-52 (´One of the chief collections of standard alchemical authors´), VD17 14:628594C, 14:628577N, 14:628593V.
Important and rare edition. The first one to contain the third volume with works by Lull, Albertus Magnus and Arnaldus de Villa Nova. This collection of alchemical tracts was first issued in 1572 and it contains the Aurora Consurgens and the Rosarium philosophorum with woodcuts illustrations.
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Auktionsnummer:

6191

Datum:

2015-12-15