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Collectanea chemica : being certain select treatises on alchemy and hermetic medicine / by Eirenaeus Philalethes, Dr. Francis Antony, George Starkey, Sir George Ripley and anonymous unknown.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 540.1 C687
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
- Penn Provenance:
- Browne, Charles Albert, 1870-1947 (bookplate) (Smith copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : James Elliot & Co. ..., 1893.
- Contents:
- The secret of the immortal liquor called alkahest, or ignis-aqua / by Eirenaeus Philalethes
- Aurum potabile, or, The receipt of Dr. Fr. Antonie
- The admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oil which is made of sulphur vive set on fire and commonly called oil of sulphur per campanam / by G. Starkey
- The stone of the philosophers : embracing the first matter and the dual process for the vegetable and metallic tinctures
- The bosom book of Sir George Ripley
- Preparations of the sophic mercury ... / written by Eirenaeus Philalethes.
- Notes:
- Half title.
- "The hermetic tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript (itself a transcript from an older but now untraceable work) belonging to the celebrated collection of the Mr. Frederick Hockley."
- Contains:
- Stone of the philosophers.
- OCLC:
- 4517196
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