The mirror of alchimy
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Type of record: Book
Title: The mirror of alchimy
Other titles: Speculum alchemiae
Classmark: Early Science 2 1597/BAC
Creator(s): Bacon, Roger (1214?-1294?)
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Creede for Richard Olive
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1597
Language: English
Size and medium: [4], 84 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/239880
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013364849705181
Description
STC 1182 // Duveen: Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica, 37 // First English translation of the author's Speculum alchemiae (Nuremberg, 1541) and of his De mirabile potestate artis et naturae (Paris, 1542) Includes also: The Smaragdine table of Hermes Trismegistus of alchimy; A briefe commentarie of Hortulanus the philosopher, upon the Smaragdine table; the booke of the secrets of alchimie, composed by Galid the sonne of Iazich.
Pagination irregular.
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