Alchymia ratione et experientia ita demum viriliter impugnata & expugnata : vnâ cum suis fallacijs & deliramentis, quibus homines imbubinârat vt nunquam imposterum se erigere valeat / auctore Nicolao Guiberto ... ; item De balsamo, eiusque lachrymae quod opobalsamum dicitur, natura, viribus & facultatibus admirandis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guibert, Nicolas, approximately 1547-approximately 1620.

Contributor:

Zetzner, Lazarus, 1551-1616, publisher.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 104 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 18 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Alchymia ratione et experientia ita demvm viriliter impvgnata & expugnata

Alchymiae ratione et experientia refutatae

Fingerprint:

eqe- u-I. uma, vige (3) 1603 (R)

Place of Publication:

Argentorati : Impensis Lazari Zetzneri ..., MDCIII [1603]

Notes:

Liber 2 of "Alchymia" has special half-t.p. which reads: Alchymiae ratione et experientia refutatae, liber II. In quo perpenduntur, quae ad iactatam Chymistarum experientiam pertinere videntur. Anno Christi M. DC. III.

"De balsamo" has special t.p. and separate pagination and signatures.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴ E-H⁸, ²A⁸ B⁴.

Leaf ²B4 is blank.

Woodcut title vignettes, initials and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full calf with boards tooled in gold and blind; 3 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; spine panels tooled in gold and blind; gold-tooled cover-edges.

Cited in:

VD 17 23:296692Y

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 272-273

Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, I, p. 353

Partington II, p. 268-269

Thorndike, L. History of magic, VI, p. 244-245

Contains:

De balsamo, eiusque lachrymae quod opobalsamum dicitur, natura, viribus & facultatibus admirandis.

OCLC:

18218094