Joh. Michaelis Faustij … Compendium alchymist. novum pdf

Joh. Michaelis Faustij … Compendium alchymist. novum

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Brief extracts in Latin from writers on alchemy, with commentary in German. Based on Reusner’s Pandora of 1582. See Hogart”, ‘T.p. across 2 pages, tipped in at center fold; printed in red and black’, “Frontispiece extends across 2 pages, tipped in at center fold. It is signed: L.C. Marchand fecit in Nürnberg. Nineteen engravings, bound between p. 1008 and [1021], have alchemical symbolism. Most are followed by a leaf in letterpress that gives on the recto Reusner’s explanation of the symbolism, keyed to letters on the engraving, and on the verso that of Faustius. There are also in-text woodcut ill”, “Frontispiece and engravings of Library’s copy are hand colored with watercolors including gold and silver. Eleven woodcuts (as well as 2 tailpieces) between p. 241 and 362 are also hand colored”, ‘Hogart, R. Alchemy

• Creator/s: Faust, Johann Michael, 1663-1707, Reusner, Hieronymus, b. 1558. Pandora, Marchand, Johann Christian, 1680-1711
• Date: 1706
• Year: 1706
• Book Topics/Themes: Alchemy

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