GEHENNICAL FIRE: The Lives of George Starkey, An American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. FINE Premium Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. 348 pages. Tall octavo.
Alchemy & Hermetica
PROMETHEAN AMBITIONS: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature.
University of Chicago Press, 2004. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Premium Cloth Volume in fine dust jacket. With nine full page plates and 23 alchemical figures. 333 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
THE CHEMICAL THEATRE.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. A study of alchemical symbolism and themes in the work of Shakespeare and contemporaries, but the volume also examines the writings of Dee, Ripley, Paracelsus, Valentine, and other alchemists. Tall 8vo. 292 pages.
THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF ALCHEMY -- Constantine of Pisa: Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY. Seven pages of rare figures. Selected bibliography. Brill's "Collection de travaux de l'Academie Collection de travaux de l'Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences". [x], 339 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
SALE 692: Art & Illustration; Occult & Hermeticism.
San Francisco: PBA, [January 9] 2020. In tall premium wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. In the occult section, there are 160 listings catalogues, including images for most lots. Excellent reference material. 4to.
PARACELSUS: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance.
Basel: S. Karger, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Name on flyleaf; Small binding imperfection top of rear panel where the cloth became thread bare; internals tight, and free of marking; A VERY GOOD+ COPY. Thirty six illustrations. Includes an Introduction; The Life of Paracelsus; The Philosophy of Paracelsus; Medicine; The Sources of.....
THE HERMETIC & ALCHEMICAL WRITINGS.
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press, 1992. Limited edition of 1000 hand numbered copies, and signed by the publisher on the verso. Text paper edition with sewn binding as issued; archival quality; A FINE COPY. 816 pages. Out of print. Complete and unabridged facsimile of the 1894 edition; two volumes bound.....
THE PROPHECIES OF PARACELSUS: Magical Figures and Prognostications Made by Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim About Four Hundred Years Ago.
Edmonds: The Alchemical Press [Holmes Publishing Group], 1992. Limited to 19 copies, hand-numbered. In wraps as issued; Fine Custom Monograph on fine papers as issued. Thirty-two magic figures and prognostications made more than four centuries ago. The 11th figure representing the Bear of Russia is most illuminating, and reminiscent of.....
THE PROPHECIES OF PARACELSUS: Magical Figures and Prognostications Made by Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim About Four Hundred Years Ago.
London: Rider and Company, 1974. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY in dust jacket. Translated by Julius Kohn. Illustrated. 115 pages. Small octavo.
MEDICINA DIASTATICA, [PHOTOCOPY, circa 1990, in binder] or Sympatheticall Mumie: Containing Many Mysterious and Hidden Secrets in Philosophy and Physick. By the: 1. Construction 2. Extraction 3. Transplantation 4. and Application of Microcosmical & Spiritual Mumie. Teaching the Magneticall cure of Diseases at Distance, etc. Abstracted from the Works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the Labour and Industry of Andrea Tentzelius, Phil. & Med. Translated out of Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst, Gent.
London: Printed by T. Newcomb for T. Heath, and are to be sold in his shop in Russell-street, neer the Piazzas of Covent Garden, 1653. FIRST EDITION. In notebook binder; all copies under mylar and nicely done; original letter from an anonymous source to HPG suggesting we publish this piece.....
THE SEVEN DEFENSES OF PARACELUS: Against Those Who Would Seek to Defame Me.
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION, Limited and Numbered. Stitched monograph as issued; A FINE COPY on fine papers. Numbered and limited to 22 copies only, initialed by the publisher. 36 pages. Octavo.
JABIR IBN HAYYAN: A Paragon Summary.
London: Paragon Press, 2000. In monograph wraps; A FINE COPY. Succinct study of the life and though of Geber, and other Arabian alchemists, up to the time of Paracelsus. 44 pages. 8vo.
ALCHEMY: Science and Thought Through Books. [ALQUIMIA: Cencia y Pensamiento a Traves de los Libros.]
Madrid: Biblioteca Historica, 2005. FIRST EDITION. Custom wraps with French folds as issued; A FINE COPY. Bi-Lingual: Spanish and English with alchemical articles and contributions by Pariente, Debus, Harold Cook, William Eamon, and others. Plates, vignettes and title pages are superbly reproduced on an enamel sheet, and the binding is.....
FOOL OF LOVE: The Life of Ramon Lull.
London: SCM Press, 1946. FIRST EDITION. A FINECLOTH COPY in dust jacket. 127 pages. Small octavo.
FOOL OF LOVE: The Life of Ramon Lull.
London: SCM Press, 1946. FIRST EDITION. A Very Good cloth copy in dust jacket. 127 pages. Small octavo.
THE ALCHEMICAL CORPUS ATTRIBUTED TO RAYMOND LULL.
London: Warburg Institute, 1989. FIRST EDITION. In academic wraps as issued; lightly rubbed along the spine; otherwise, A FINE COPY. Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts XVIII. 118 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
THE FAME AND CONFESSION OF THE FRATERNITY OF THE R:C: Commonly, of the Rosy Cross. With a Praeface annexed thereto, and a short Declaration of their Physical Work.
Cheltenham: Helios Book Service, 1970. Limited hand-numbered edition of 200 copies only of which this number 93. Hand bound in linen and marbled boards; custom end papers; RC device gold pressed on front panel; A FINE COPY. Number Thirteen in the Helios series, "Rare Text Library of Philosophical Research", edited.....
ALCHEMISTS IN ART AND LITERATURE. A Lecture.
London: Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1933. FIRST EDITION. In custom wraps as issued; VERY GOOD+ COPY. Seventeen full page plates. 54 pages, indexed. Octavo.
HENRY VAUGHAN: The Unfolding Vision.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. 243 pages with index. Octavo.
ALCHEMY, THE ANCIENT SCIENCE.
New York: Doubleday, 1976. Very Good+ cloth copy in dust jacket. Colored illustrations. 144 pages. Quarto,
TRANSMUTATIONS: Alchemy in Art: Selected Works from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2002. In quality text wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. With thirty seven plates and illustrations in color. 40 pages. Landscape quarto,
THE ASPIRING ADEPT: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest. Including Boyle's "Lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation of Metals.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. FIRST EDITION. Very fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 339 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
THE SECRETS OF ALCHEMY.
University of Chicago Press, 2012. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Volume in fine dust jacket. Twelve color plates, and numerous black and white figures en texte. 281 pages, indexed. Octavo.
ALCHEMY: A Bibliography of English-Language Writings.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul jointly with the Library Association, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket with ribbon place marker. Very useful reference with content blurbs and additional information. Tall 8vo.
PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE [Catalogue 1148] & SCIENCE [Catalogue 1152]. Two volumes.
London: Bernard Quaritch, circa 2005. FINE COPIES in custom wraps as issued. Includes plates and engravings pertinent to the rarities of which fifty are cited in 1148, and 200 more in number 1152. Small 4to.
