DON RAIMON, A Story of Raymond Lull.
London: Macmillan and Central Board of Missions. 1919. First Edition. Ex-libris; no markings; Good research copy only. With illustrations. 124 pages. Small 8vo.
Alchemy & Hermetica
PARACELSUS.
Thame: Mandrake Press, 1991. Mandrake Press Booklets number 10. In stitched wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Examines the alchemical and medical phiosophy of Paracelsus. Octavo.
FOUR TREATISES OF THEOPHRASTUS VON HOHENHEIM CALLED PARACELSUS.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. FIRST EDITION. A Very Good+ Cloth Volume. Translated from the original German, with Introductory Essays by C. Lilian Temkin, George Rosen, Henry Sigerist and Gregory Zilboorg, this copy signed on the front free end paper by Rosen. 1538 woodcut of Paracelsus as frontispiece. [xiv], 256.....
KATALOG DER ARABISCHEN ALCHEMISTISCHEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DEUTSCHLANDS. Three volumes.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1949-1956. In academic wraps as issued; A FINE SET. Text in German. V. I: 144 pages. V. II: 118 pages. V. III: 58 pages. Tall 4to.
FROM MAGIC TO SCIENCE: Essays on the Scientific Twilight.
London: Ernest Benn, 1928. FIRST EDITION. Binding shows wear and handling; internals firm and clean; all plates, including the colored, are present; VERY GOOD COPY. Fourteen color plates are tipped in, with the frontispiece being, Hildegard's "Vision of the Fall of the Angels". An additional 108 figures from rare sources.....
CATALOGUE OF LATIN AND VERNACULAR ALCHEMICAL MANUSCRIPTS in Great Britain and Ireland, Dating from Before the XVI Century. Three volumes.
Brussels: Maurice Lamertin [Union academique internationale], 1928-31. FIRST EDITION. In academic wraps as issued; covers show some fading; else, A VERY GOOD+ SET. Volume III includes appendixes, indexes and addenda and corrigenda. Frontispiece engraving. [xxiii], 1179 pages. Tall octavo.
THE PIROTECHNIA OF VANNOCHIO BIRINGUCCIO. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction and Notes by Smith and Gnudi.
New York: American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 1942. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. VERY GOOD+ quarto volume with cloth title label on spine. Text is a reprint of the 1540 First Edition and includes a facsimile of the original title page as frontispiece. Illustrated. 476 pages. Tall 4to.....
QUINTESSENCE OF SECRET MERCURY: Practices, Prayers, and Parables.
Brooklyn: David Chaim Smith, 2021. FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME; This book is an image-saturated expression of mystical surrender. The work contains a selection of highly unusual contemplative practices and prayers, a cycle of sixteen Kabbalistic drawings called *Tikkun of the Circle*, and a rare visionary text (bearing the title of.....
OCCULT CHEMISTRY RE-EVALUATED.
Wheaton: TPH, 1982. Quality trade paper edition; VERY GOOD or better without marking. Tables and diagrams. 106 pages. 8vo.
PRACTICAL AND MYSTICAL ASPECTS OF ALCHEMY, and the Idea of Perfection in Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale and in The Pearl : Nina as a Character of Static Progression in O'Neill's Strange Interlude. The Hermetic Crucible: A Subtile Werk and other Poems.
Dissertation [BYU], August, 1975. Manuscript bound in cloth; A VERY GOOD+ COPY. Thorough documentation. 87 leaves, 4to.
THE BUSINESS OF ALCHEMY: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Premium Cloth Volume in fine dust jacket. Thirty illustrations. [xii], 308 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
THE ROSARY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS; Being the Rosarium Philosophorum.
Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group [Alchemical Press], 2003. FIRST EDITION, Limited.to 250 Copies only. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME, sewn and archival, with marbled end papers. English translation compared with the Latin of Manget, with corrections. Edited, with copious annotation, by Patrick Smith. Illustrated with rare figures and plates. Alchemical Studies series.....
ANNUAL REPORT of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution to July, 1897.
Washington: GPO, 1898. Top of spine wiht large chip; internals clean and free of marking; marbled end papers; RESEARCH COPY ONLY in vinyl protector. Bolton's "The Revival of Alchemy'; Crookes on "Diamonds"; Treatise on "Mescal"; "Archeological Field Work in Arizona" replete with numerous full page plates of native American artifacts.....
THE ENIGMA OF ALCHEMY.
Edmonds: The Alchemical Press [Holmes Publishing Group], 1984. Limited to Sixteen Copies Only, Hand-numbered and initialed by the Publisher. A FINE COPY in stitched wraps with parchment cover sheet and linen papers. Only this fragment remains of the famous lost alchemical epic poem by the father of Mary Anne Atwood.....
SOMA: The Divine Hallucinogen.
Rochester, NY: Park Street Press, 2000. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Illustrations. Bibliography. [vii], 198 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
ALCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.
Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1905. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 1, # 4, 1905. Original wraps bound in cloth with gilt title on front panel; Very Good Copy. Ex-libris; paper is extremely fragile, and cracks and splits have been repaired with tape with no loss of.....
A TESTAMENT OF ALCHEMY: Being the Revelations of Morienus, Ancient Adept of Egypt and Hermit of Jerusalem to Khalid Ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiyya, King of the Arabs of The Divine Secrets of the Magisterium and Accomplishment of the Alchemical Art.
Hanover, NH: The University Press of New England [for Brandeis], 1974. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY, bound in premium cloth, with fine dust jacket. [iv], 76 pages. Octavo.
THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.
New-York: Carlton & Phillips, 1852. December Issue. Very Good original excision. Brief article titled, "Alchemy and the Alchemists" which primarily addresses Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Jacob Boehme in the body of this sewn section along with work on Boas, Southey, Samuel Johnson, and other interests. This eclectic monthly was begun in.....
ARTIFEX. Volumes 10 (Spring, 1992).
St. Paul, MN: Archaeus Project, 1992. FINE COPY of this scarce periodical. Illustrated. Topics: Introduction focuses on alchemical imagery with examples; Paneth's "Alchemy, Ancient and Modern"; Sardello on "Samuel Hahnemann and Alchemical Tradition"; "Electricity, Alchemy, and the Unconscious"; and others. Book reviews. 56 pages. 4to.
THE LITTLE MYSTIC-MAGIC PICTURE BOOK: For the Industriously Practicing Abecedarian of the Fraternity of the Rose Cross.
Chicago: Aries Press [Engelke], 1937. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY. Illustrations of the Chemical Garden from the Frankfort 1624 edition with the title, "Viridarium Chymicum". Translation from the Latin into ordinary German rhymes by Daniel Meissner von Commonthaw, then translated from the German, by Nicolaus. Printed single leaved. Published.....
SOME SPECIMENS OF A WORK ON THE PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY, With Other Treatises.
Bryn Athyn, PA: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1976. Limited Edition of 300 copies only. A FINE CLOTH COPY issued without dust jacket. Originally published in London, 1847. Translated from the Latin by C.E. Strutt. Illustrated. 253 pages, plus book list. Octavo.
THE RED LION: The Elixir of Eternal Life; An Alchemical Novel.
Yelm, WA: Horus Publishing, 1997. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. This novel, translated from the Hungarian (by Vermes and Jozsa), is presented in English for the first time. "It is certain that alchemy was of great importance to the Messianic legacy, and it played.....
THE ALCHEMY OF LIGHT: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration.
Leiden: Brill, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Fine premium cloth volume (archival) in the original publisher's shrink wrap. Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism 10. Fifty rare and unusual plates and illustrations. Material on Dee, Khunrath, Maier and Fludd. [xvii], 246 pages. Tall octavo.
WATER WHICH DOES NOT WET HANDS: The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius.
Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences [Institute for the History of Science], 1994. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME IN FINE DUST JACKET. Illustrated. Bibliography, and glossary of Sendivogian terms. Based on what Valentine dubbed, "the Dry Work." [xiv], 300 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
THE ALCHEMISTS: Founders of Modern Chemistry.
Salem: Ayer Publishing, 1992. A FINE CLOTH COPY, archival and sewn. With fourteen plates, and 27 rare figures. Taylor was once an editor of the journal, Ambix. [xi], 246 pages. Octavo.
