BOOK
Title:
In hoc volvmine De alchemia continentur haec: Gebri Arabis ... De inuestigatioe pfectionis metallor[um]. Liber I. Summae perfectionis metallorum, siue perfecti magisterij. Libri II. ... Eiusdem De inuentione ueritatis seu perfectionis metallorum. Liber I. De fornacibus construendis. Liber I. Item. S
Creator:
Jabir ibn Hayyan.
Publication:
I. Petreium, Norimbergae, 1541.
Notes:
(10 tracts on alchemy; paged continuously) Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
[10] p. ., 373 p., [4] p. : illus.
BOOK
Title:
The Alchemists, founders of modern chemistry
Creator:
Taylor, F. Sherwood (Frank Sherwood), 1897-1956
Publication:
Collier, New York, 1962.
Extent:
192 p. illus. 20 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
The revival of alchemy
Parent:
Smithsonian Inst. Annual rept. for 1897
Creator:
Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903
Publication:
Smithsonian Inst, Washington, 1898.
Call #:
506.73 SM6AN, 1897
BOOK
Title:
Coelum philosophorum, sev liber de secretis naturae
Creator:
Ulstadius, Philippus.
Publication:
Lugduni, 1572.
Extent:
649 p. : il., pl. ; trigesimo-secundo.
BOOK
Title:
Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs
Creators:
Berthelot, M. (Marcellin), 1827-1907 | Ruelle, Ch.-Em., 1833-1912
Publication:
G. Steinheil, Paris, 1887-1888.
Notes:
Edited by Charles Emile Ruelle. Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
3 v. (xxviii p., 284 p.; [4] p., x p., 252 p., [4] p. 242 p.; [6] p. pp. [253]-459; [2] p., pp. [243]-477) : Illus.
BOOK
Title:
The alchemist in life, literature and art
Creator:
Read, John, 1884-
Publication:
T. Nelson, London, [1947]
Notes:
"References": p. 91.
Extent:
xii, 100 p. : col. front., illus., plates ; 22 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The alchemists: founders of modern chemistry
Creator:
Taylor, F. Sherwood (Frank Sherwood), 1897-1956
Publication:
H. Schuman, New York, [1949]
Notes:
"Recommendations for further reading": p. 238-242.
Extent:
xi, 246 p. : illus., map ; 22 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Collectanea chimica curiosa
Publication:
Apud viduam Hermanni à Sande, Francofurti, 1693.
Notes:
Readex Microfiche edition.
BOOK
Title:
Bibliotheca chemica contracta ex delectu & emendatione
Creators:
Aubigné, Nathan d', 1600 or 1601-1669 | Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio, ca. 1456-1524? | Sedziwój, Michal, ca. 1556-ca. 1646 | Espagnet, Jean d', 1564-ca. 1637
Publication:
Sumpt. Ioannis Ant. & Samuelis de Tournes, Genevae, 1653.
Notes:
Title vignette: device of Jean Antoine and Samuel de Tournes. Parts [2]-[4] each with special title-page. Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
4 pts. in 1 v. ([15] p, 77 p; 11 p, [2] p, 175 p; 9 p, 179 p; [11] p, 83 p.)
BOOK
Title:
Histoire des sciences: la chimie au moyen âge
Creators:
Berthelot, M. (Marcellin), 1827-1907 | France Ministère de l'éducation nationale.
Publication:
Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 1893.
Notes:
Vol. 2: avec la collaboration de Rubens Duval; vol. 3: O. Houdas. Readex Microprint edition. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
3 v. ([6] p., viii p., 453 p.; [6] p., xlviii p., 104 p.; 408 p.; [6] p., 255 p. [213] p.) : Illus.
BOOK
Title:
Incipit liber Geber
Creator:
Jabir ibn Hayyan.
Publication:
Venice?, 1475?]
Notes:
Caption title. Without title-page, pagination or register. Latin and Italian poems on alchemical subjects. Readex Microprint edition. [Begin:] Incipit Liber Geber. [End:] Finis Registri. 25 lines to a full page. Summa perfectionis magisterii, with Liber trium uerborum, Epistola Alexandri imperatoris, Liber inuestigationis magisterii per Geber; and several Latin and Italian poems on alchemical subjects by Cecco d'Ascoli, Fratre Helia and others.
Extent:
[122] p. ., of which the first is blank.
ANALYTIC
Title:
The Texts of Michael Scot's Ars alchemie
Creators:
Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234 | Thomson, Samuel Harrison, 1895-1975
Publication:
Bruges, Belgium, 1938.
Notes:
Signed: S. Harrison Thomson. Bibliographical foot-notes.
Extent:
p.[523]-559 ; 25 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Magistri Ioannis Isaaci Hollandi ... Opera mineralia, siue de Lapide Philosophico, omnia duobus libris comprehensa. Nunquam antehac edita, ac nunc primim ex optimis manu scriptis Teutonicis exemplar ibus fidelissime in Latinum sermonem translata, a P.M.G
Creator:
Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, 15th cent
Publication:
Richardus Schilders, Middelbvrgi, 1600.
Extent:
[12], 431 p. ; octodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
The forge and the crucible
Creators:
Eliade, Mircea, 1907- | Corrin, Stephen
Publication:
Rider, London, [1962]
Notes:
Translation of Forgerons et alchimistes. Includes bibliography.
Extent:
208 p. : illus. ; 21 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Through alchemy to chemistry: a procession of ideas & personalities
Creator:
Read, John, 1884-
Publication:
G. Bell, London, 1957.
Notes:
Includes bibliography.
Extent:
206 p. illus. 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Musaeum hermeticum, reformatum et amplificatum: omnes sopho-spagyricae artis discipulos fidelissime erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque lapidis philosophici medicina, qua res omnes qualemcunque defectum patientes instaurantur, inveniri et haberi queat
Publication:
Lipsiae, Francofurti, 1749.
Notes:
Added engraved title page. Each tract except the fifth has special title page included in the pagination. Reprint of the edition of 1678. cf. J. Ferguson, Bibliotheca chemica.
Extent:
[10], 862, [1] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., front. ; 23 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
The battle of the alchemists
Parent:
Smithsonian institution. Annual report, 1933
Creator:
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Publication:
Smithsonian institution, Washington, 1935.
Notes:
"The seventh Steinmetz lecture, delivered before the Schenectady section of the American institute of electrical engineers, Nov. 18, 1932. Reprinted ... from the Technology review, vol.35, no.5, February 1933."
Call #:
506.73 SM6AN 1933
Extent:
p.269-282 : 3 pl. on 2 l. ; 23 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
La vera dichiaratione di tvtte le metafore, similitudini, & enimmi de gl'antichi filosofi alchimisti, tanto Caldei & Arabi, come Greci & Latini, vsati da loro nella descrittione, & compositione dell'oro potabile, elissire della vita, quinta essenza: Ove con vn breve discorso della generatione de i metalli, & quasi di tutte l'opere di natura, secondo i principij della filosofia, si mostra l'errore, & ignoranza (per non dir l'inganno) di tutti gl'alchimisti moderni
Creator:
Quattrami, Evangelista, fl. 16th cent
Publication:
Apresso V. Accolti, Roma, 1587.
Notes:
Printer's device on colophon. Coat of arms on title page. Initials, head and tail pieces. See account of this work in Ferguson, John. Bibliotheca chemica, v.2, p. 232, 1906.
Extent:
[24], 230, [24] p. ; 22 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Raimundi Lulii Maiorici, philosophi acutissimi, mediciq[ue] celeberrimi, De secretis naturae, siue, Quinta essentia libri duo: his accesserunt Alberti Magni, summi philosophi, De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinque
Alt. Title:
De secretis naturae
Creators:
AlbertusMagnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 | Ryff, Walther Hermann, d. 1548 | Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Publication:
Apud Petrum Schoeffer Germanum Maguntinum, Venetiis, anno 1542.
Notes:
Attribution of the 1st work to Ramón Llull is probably incorrect. Cf. L. Thorndike, A hist. of magic and experimental science, v. 4, ch. 38. Colophon: Venundantur Venetijs apud Io. Baptistam sub insignio Turris. Woodcuts: device; initial; illustrations. Includes index.
Extent:
324, [8] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Discours admirables, de la nature des eaux et fonteines, tant naturelles qu'artificielles, des metaux, des sels & salines, des pierres, des terres, du feu & des emaux: avec plusieurs autres excellens secrets des choses naturelles : plus un traitp1se de la marne, fort utile & necessaire, pour ceux qui se mellent de l'agriculture : le tout dressp1se par dialogues, esquels sont introduits la theorique & la practique
Creator:
Palissy, Bernard, 1510?-1590
Publication:
M. le Jeune, Paris, 1580.
Notes:
Readex Microprint edition.
Extent:
[6] p, 361 p, [23] p.
