Collectanea chymica : a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal
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Type of record: Book
Title: Collectanea chymica : a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal
Other titles: The practice of lights
Classmark: Early Science 2 1684/COO
Related people: Cooper, William; Philalethes, Eirenaeus; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van; Anthony, Francis; Bernardus; Ripley, George; Bacon, Roger; Starkey, George; Plat, Hugh; H. V. D
Publisher: Printed for William Cooper
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1684
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 193, [5], 32 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/241959
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014121279705181
Description
Each treatise (except the last) has special t.p. dated 1683. The last treatise has special t.p. with imprint date 1684 and separate pagination.
"The secret of the immortal liquor" has added t.p. in Latin and text in English and Latin.
Compiled and edited by W. Cooper.
Contents: The secret of the immortal liquor called alkahest, or ignisaqua / by Eirenaeus Philalethes [pseud.] -- The practice of lights, or, An excellent and ancient treatise of the philosophers stone -- Praecipiolum, or, The immature-mineral-electrum / by J.B. Van-Helmont -- Aurum-potabile, or, The receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie -- A treatise of Bernard, Earl of Trevisan, of the philosophers stone -- The bosome-book of Sir George Ripley -- Speculum alchymiae; The true glass of alchemy / by Roger Bacon -- The admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl, which is made of sulphur-vive, set on fire and called commonly oyl of sulphur per campanam / G. Starkey -- Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine / written by Sir H. Platt -- The tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed.
Indexed in: Wing C5103 (Collectanea chymica).
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