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The mirror of alchimy

Archive Print Item: Early Science 2 1597/BAC

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Type of record: Book

Title: The mirror of alchimy

Other titles: Speculum alchemiae

Level: Item

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

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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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