TRANSMUTATION: How the Alchemists Turned Lead Into Gold.
Upland, CA: Astara, 1969. First Edition. In wraps as issued; VERY GOOD+. Illustrated. 56 pages. 8vo.
Alchemy & Hermetica
ALCHEMY AND OTHER CHEMICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT: The Civilization of Japan and China in Early Times as Seen from the Chemical Point of View.
Tokyo: Rakakuho Uchida, 1936. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. In black cloth with titles in red, and a gilt vignette on the front panel; A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. Cover title: "Oriental Alchemy". Colored frontispiece of Sun Po with eleven full page half tone plates. With author's compliments card tipped in.Chart. [vii].....
THE SATYR'S SERMON: By the Hand and Eye of Alogos.
Xoanon Publishing, 2009. Limited Edition of 333 copies, hand numbered. Quarter bound in leather with slipcase; A MINT COPY. Landscape 16mo. Completed in early 2004, the Sermon formed a portion of the 'Monadic Transmission' series of texts originally issued in hand-written, hand-illustrated editions of one copy only. This unique grimoire.....
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.
THE CHYMICAL WEDDING: A Romance.
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.
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY CONCERNING GOD, CHRIST AND THE CREATURES; Being a Little Treatise Published Since the Author's Death, Translated Out of the English into Latin, with Annotations Taken from the Ancient Philosophy of the Hebrews, and Now Again Made English by J.C., Medicinæ Professor.
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.
CHINESE ALCHEMY: The Taoist Quest for Immortality.
New York: Stirling, 1990. In quality wraps; A FINE COPY. Illustrations & bibliography. 160 pages, indexed. 8vo.
CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ALCHIMIQUE LATINS. I. Manuscrits des bibliotheques publiques de Paris anterieurs au XVIIe siecle.
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.
ALCHEMY: The Philosopher's Stone.
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.
COUNT MICHAEL MAIER, Doctor of Philosophy and of Medicine, Alchemist, Rosicrucian, Mystic, 1568-1622: Life and Writings.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME, sewn, with gilt titles. Two plates. [ix], 167 pages. Bibliography. Octavo.
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE LANGUAGE OF CHEMISTRY.
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.
THE ALCHEMISTS: Fathers of Practical Chemistry.
New York: David McKay, 1966. A FINE CLOTH COPY IN DUST JACKET. Illustrated by Tashiro. 146 pages. Octavo.
THE HERMETIC ARCANUM: The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy. Limited Edition.
Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group, 2011. Limited to 18 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.....
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE ALCHEMIST, DENIS ZACHAIRE.
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.....
CHYMIA: Annual Studies in the History of Chemistry. Volume I.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948. Ex-libris with minimal markings, and uncalculated; VERY GOOD+. Illustrated. 190 pages. Tall octavo.
CHYMIA: Annual Studies in the History of Chemistry. Volume II.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. Illustrated. 143 pages, plus errata. Tall 8vo.
ROGER BACON'S LETTER; Concerning the Marvelous Power of Art and of Nature and Concerning the Nullity of Magic.
Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Co., 1923. FIRST EDITION. Name on fly; otherwise, A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. 76 pages. Small octavo.
MEDICINE IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND. A Symposium held at UCLA in honor of C.D. O'Malley.
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.
ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
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.
THE CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Two volumes.
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.
THE CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Two volumes.
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.
THE ENGLISH PARACELSIANS.
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.....
ALCHEMY AND EARLY MODERN CHEMISTRY: Papers from Ambix.
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.
SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY IN THE RENAISSANCE: Essays in Honor Walter Pagel. Two volumes.
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.
THE HIEROGLYPHIC MONAD. New Translation by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer of the University of Oxford. DeLuxe Limited Edition.
New York: Von Zos, 2019. DeLuxe Limited Edition of 30 hand-numbered copies only of which this number two. A FINE COPY, sewn and archival, in fine dust jacket, with custom end papers in illustrated, printed matching box. This special edition includes reproductions of several pages from books that formed part.....
