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EDITED WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE, ELUCIDATORY NOTES, A COPIOUS HERMETIC VOCABULARY, AND INDEX, BY 2 vols., demy 4to. pp. xvi and 400 and viii and 400; printed from a new fount of type on antique paper, specially made for this edition, and bound in cloth extra, (published at £2. 12s 6d), whilst the stock lasts offered for 25s 1894 The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus contain-(a) Entire and unabridged, the large body of literature attributed to this illustrious adept, and treating directly of alchemy and the transcendental doctrines and physics of the MAGNUM OPUS; (b) The whole Paracelsian literature of the Great Elixir and the Universal Medicine; (c) An exhaustive catena of alchemical references scattered through the chirurgical works of Paracelsus. Some idea of the scope of the undertaking will be derived from the following by no means exhaustive list of the independent treatises which are included in the two volumes. The Coelum Philosophorum, or Book of Vexations. The Book concerning the Tincture of the Philosophers. The Gradations of Metals. The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists. Of the Transmutations of Metals and of Cements. The Aurora of the Philosophers. Concerning the Spirits of the Planets. The Economy of Minerals. The Composition of Metals. Nine Books concerning the Nature of Things. The Philosophy concerning the Generation of the Elements. A Book about Minerals. The Mercuries of the Metals. The Ten Books of the Archidoxies. The Manual concerning the Philosophers' Stone. The Book concerning Renovation and Restora tion. A Little Book concerning the Quintessence. The Degrees and Compositions of Recipes. The Philosophy addressed to the Athenians. The text which has been adopted for translation is the Geneva folio in four volumes, 1658, in Latin. The works attributed to Paracelsus which are not to be found in this edition have been rendered from other equally representative The ruling plan of the translation has been scrupulous and literal fidelity, and wherever possible the text has been illustrated by parallel passages selected from the medical and non-Hermetic writings of Paracelsus, which are excluded by the plan of the present edition. sources. The Hermetic Museum RESTORED AND ENLARGED, MOST FAITHFULLY INSTRUCTING ALL THE DISCIPLES OF THE SOPHO-SPAGYRIC ART, HOW THAT GREATEST AND TRUESt Medicine OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE MAY BE FOUND AND HELD. Now first done into English from the rare Latin original, published at Frankfort in the year 1678. The Illustrations reproduced in facsimile by a photographic process. 2 vols., sm. 4to., extra cloth, price £2, 2s Very few copies remain for sale. 1893 This curious storehouse of Hermetic Science comprises twenty-two choice treatises on the Mysteries of Alchemy, and the composition of the Medicine of the Philosophers, namely: While affording to the modern student of Hermetic Doctrines an unique opportunity of acquiring in English a representative collection of the chief alchemical writers, this edition of THE HERMETIC MUSEUM claims consideration at the hands of the historian and archæologist as a contribution of real value to the early history of chemistry. The translation is the work of a gentleman who has had a life-long acquaintance with alchemical literature, and has been subjected to careful revision by another expert in Hermetic Antiquities. N.B.-This Edition is limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed. Collectanea Chemica: Being certain select treatises on Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine, by EIRENEUS PHILALETHES, FRANCIS ANTONY, GEORGE STARKEY, SIR GEORGE RIPLEY, and ANONYMOUS UNKNOWN. Crown 8vo., printed from old-faced type on antique laid paper, cloth extra, price 7s 6d CONTENTS: The Secret of the Immortal Liquor called Alkahest. The Admirable Efficacy of the True Oil of Sulphur The Stone of the Philosophers. Very few copies remain for sale. 1893 The Hermetic Tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript belonging to the celebrated collection of the late Mr. Frederick Hockley, who was well known among modern students of the secret sciences not only for the resources of his Hermetic Library, but for his practical acquaintance with many branches of esoteric lore, and for his real or reputed connection with the numerous but unavowed associations which now, as at anterior periods, are supposed to dispense initiation into occult knowledge. A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature's Marvels. CONCERNING THE BLESSED MYSTERY OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. Crown 8vo., printed from old-faced type on antique laid paper, cloth extra (pub. at 12s 6d), 5s 1893 Containing the Revelation of the Most Illuminated Egyptian King and Philosopher, Hermes Trismegistus: translated by our German Hermes, the Noble and Beloved Monarch and Philosopher Trismegistus, A. Ph.Theophrastus Paracelsus. Also Tinctura Physicorum Paracelsica, with an excellent explanation by the Noble and Learned Philosopher, Alexander von Suchten, M.D., together with certain hitherto unpublished treatises by this author, and also other corollaries of the same matter as specified in the preface. Now published for the use and benefit of all sons of the Doctrine of Hermes. By BENEDICTUS FIGULUS OF VTENHOFEN. The Pearl of Great Price. A NEW TREATISE CONCERNING THE TREASURE AND MOST PRECIOUS PHILOSOPHER'S STONE; Or the Method and Procedure of this Divine Art; being observations drawn from the works of Arnold, Raymond, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus. Now first published by Janus Lacinius the Calabrian, with a copious Index. Translated into English from the much-prized edition of Aldus, which appeared, with the privilege of Pope Paul III and the Senate of Venice, in 1546. Crown 8vo., printed from old-faced type on antique laid paper, cloth extra, illustrated with symbolical designs, photographically reproduced (pub. at 12s 6d), reduced to 5s 1894 The Pretiosa Margarita Novella is supposed to be a "faithful abridgment of a work entitled Margarita Pretiosa, which appears to have circulated in manuscript in Italy during the first half of the fourteenth century, but does not seem to have been printed. It was written by Pietro Bono, who enjoys high repute as an adept in the art of Alchemy; and the present version, which has been subjected to a searching revision, is edited with an introductory analysis of the various Hermetic books which are attributed to this author. The Pretiosa Margarita Novella has special interest as one of the earliest books which appeared in print on Alchemy. Edward Kelley THE ENGLISHMAN'S TWO EXCELLENT TREATISES CONCERNING The Philosopher's Stone, TOGETHER WITH The Terrestrial Theatre of Astronomy. Translated from the first Hamburg edition of 1676, and edited with a biographical introduction, an account of Kelley's relations with the celebrated Doctor Dee, and a transcript of the so-called BooK OF SAINT DUNSTan. Crown 8vo., printed from old-faced type on antique laid paper, cloth extra (pub. at 7s 6d), reduced to 3s 6d 1893 "The transmutations of Kelley are attested by several writers, including Gassendus. The most authenticated and remarkable. is that which took place in the house of the Imperial physician, Thaddeus de Hazek, when, by the mediation of a single drop of the red oil, Kelley transmuted a pound of mercury into excellent gold, the superabundant virtue of the agent leaving in addition at the bottom of the crucible a small ruby. Dr. Nicholas Barnaud, the assistant of Hazek, and an alchemical writer whose works are as rare as they are reputable, was a witness of this wonder, and subsequently himself manufactured the precious metal, the désir désiré, with the assistance of Edward Kelley."-Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers. The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. BY BASIL VALENTINE (sometime Canon of Erfurt). With the Commentary of THEODORE KERCKRINGIUS, the Physician. Translated from the Latin edition, published at Frankfort in 1685. Now first done into English, with biographical and critical introduction. Crown 8vo., printed from old-faced type, on antique laid paper. Engraved title, and plates of alchemical vessels (pub. at 10s 6d), cloth, reduced to 5s 1893 Collectors already possessed of the Practica and Twelve Keys of Basil Everyone is acquainted with the remarkable discoveries relative to Antimony which are contained in the celebrated work of Basil Valentine, Currus Triumphalis Antimonii. The German alchemist had so thoroughly investigated the properties of this metal, scarcely indicated before him, that we find many facts stated in his treatise which in our own day have been brought forward as modern discoveries. In the same work Basil Valentine specifies many other chemical preparations of the first importance, such as spirit of salt, or our hydrochloric acid, derived after our own manner from marine salt and oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid). He gives the method of obtaining brandy by the distillation of wine and beer, rectifying the product of the distillation on calcined tartar (carbonate of potass). He even teaches the extraction of copper from its pyrites (sulphur), by first of all transforming it into vitriol of copper (sulphate of copper), with the help of moist air, and afterwards plunging a bar of iron into the aqueous dissolution of this product. This operation, which Basil Valentine was the first to describe, was often profitably made use of by alchemists at a later date; but, not understanding the fact of the precipitation of metallic copper, they mistook it for a transmutation of iron into copper, or at least for the commencement of a transmutation which could be perfected by art. One may regard this alchemist as having been the first to obtain sulphuric ether, which he prepared by distilling a mixture of spirit of wine and oil of vitriol. In a word, there were few chemical preparations known to his period concerning which Basil Valentine has not registered some valuable facts."-LOUIS FIGUIER, L'Alchimie et les Alchimistes. These 7 Classical Works exhaust the subject of Alchemy, and form a complete Library on the subject; they were published at £7. 5s, and are now offered separately for £4. 13s;-or taken together for £4. 4s cash. BERNARD QUARITCH. |