THE GOLDEN BUILDERS: Alchemists, Rosicrucian's, and the First Free Masons.
York Beach: Red Wheel / Weiser, 2005. Quality trade paper edition; A FINE COPY. Illustrated. [xiv], 250 pages. Octavo.
York Beach: Red Wheel / Weiser, 2005. Quality trade paper edition; A FINE COPY. Illustrated. [xiv], 250 pages. Octavo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. A novel of alchemy and mystery based on Thomas South and his daughter, Mary Anne Atwood. 536 pages. With press photo of the author laid in. Whitbread Prize Winner. Octavo.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. A novel of alchemy and mystery based on Thomas South and his daughter, Mary Anne Atwood. 536 pages. Whitbread Prize Winner. Octavo.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. A fictional account (with splendid original alchemical woodcuts) of the journals of seven alchemists, including Paracelsus. Tall 8vo.
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in very good dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction with well researched material on Conway, by Peter Loptson. 252 pages, indexed. Royal octavo.
New York: Stirling, 1990. In quality wraps; A FINE COPY. Illustrations & bibliography. 160 pages, indexed. 8vo.
Brussels: Secretariat Administratif de L.U.A., 1939. In academic wraps as issued; front panel has chip lower right corner, and a taped repair; internals remain unopened; A VERY GOOD COPY. Text in French. 367 pages. Octavo. Scarce.
London: Wildwood House, 1980. In quality wraps; covers lightly rubbed in transit from printers, not by use; VERY GOOD+ OR BETTER COPY, unread, with a large number of rare alchemical illustrations and plates. Coudert was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Warburg. Quarto.
Bouder: Shambhala, 1980. In quality trade wraps; front cover has crease; else, VERY GOOD COPY with a large number of rare alchemical illustrations and plates. Coudert was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Warburg. Quarto. 239 pages. 4to.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME, sewn, with gilt titles. Two plates. [ix], 167 pages. Bibliography. Octavo.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. FIRST EDITION. Name on fly; internals clean and free of marking; A VERY GOOD = CLOTH VOLUME. With eight plates, and 7 figures. 406 pages, indexed. Octavo.
New York: David McKay, 1966. A FINE CLOTH COPY IN DUST JACKET. Illustrated by Tashiro. 146 pages. Octavo.
Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group, 2011. Limited to 16 hand-numbered copies. A FINE COPY; hand-bound with a custom parchment overlay, and offered in a hand-numbered edition of 16 copies only. Originally issued in 1984 by HPG, this edition has been updated. "Herein the Secrets of the Nature and Art concerning the.....
Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group, 1993. Limited to twelve copies. Signed and numbered, by the publisher. A FINE COPY, bound in custom green linen wraps. The mysterious French alchemist's identity remains a mystery to this day, but there are keys to the real personage in Davis' treatise. Interesting facsimile illustration said.....
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948. Ex-libris with minimal markings, and uncalculated; VERY GOOD+. Illustrated. 190 pages. Tall octavo.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. Illustrated. 143 pages, plus errata. Tall 8vo.
Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Co., 1923. FIRST EDITION. Name on fly; otherwise, A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. 76 pages. Small octavo.
Holmes Publishing Group, 2011. Limited to 12 copies only, signed and numbered by the publisher. A FINE COPY, hand bound monograph in custom papers, with a Patapar overlay. DeBenneville was a Pennsylvania Rosicrucian and well known in early American esoteric circles as a mystic and healer. This is one of.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. FIRST EDITION. Signature on front free end paper; A FINE CLOTH COPY in very good dust jacket in Mylar protector. Frontispiece and additional illustrations. [xiii], 485 pages. Tall octavo.
LA: Clark Memorial Library, 1966. In wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Two articles: Debus' Renaissance Chemistry and the Work of Robert Fludd and Multhauf's Some Nonexistent Chemists of the Seventeenth Century: Remarks on the Use of the Dialogue in Scientific Writing. 53 pages. 8vo.
Science History Publications, 1977. FIRST EDITION. No marking or defects; A VERY GOOD or better cloth set. With thirty three plates. Bibliography. Vol. I: [xv], 294 pages. Vol. II: 312 pages, indexed. Octavo.
Science History Publications, 1977. FIRST EDITION. No marking or defects; light edge rubbing; A VERY GOOD OR BETTER SET. With thirty three plates. Bibliography. Vol. I: [xv], 294 pages. Vol. II: 312 pages, indexed. Octavo.
NY: Franklin Watts, 1966. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. A 32 page bibliography of Paracelsian literature gives additional value to this work. As a research tool, the text is most excellent in its stress on alchemy as an aid to medicine. 222 pages, indexed. Tall.....
UK: Jeremy Mills, 2004. Tall oversize volume in text wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. More than 25 selections of the best work offered in Ambix, the Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. 4to. 543 pages.
London: Heinemann, 1972. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD+ SET in slipcase. Illustrations. Bibliography. Frontispiece. V. I: 275 pages, V. II: 338 pages. Splendid material, particularly on Van Helmont and the French Paracelsians.