Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

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Signatures: pi1 A-3S⁴ [$3 signed ( -A1, B3, C1, I2, O2, Q2, 2U2, 2X2, 2Y3, 3D2; 2Z3 signed Zx3)].


Only this first part published.


Title-page in red and black.


Roman, italic and gothic type.


Printer's device on title-page.


Additional engraved frontispiece is signed "T. Cross sculp:"; most of the illustrations are signed "Ro: Vaughan. sculp:"; folded plate is signed "John Goddard sculpsit."


Full page engravings on p. 12, 44, 51, 91, 102 and 210. Folded leaf of plate is bound-in facing p.117.


The last four leaves contain a table of contents and glossary.


The ordinall of alchimy / vvritten by Thomas Norton... -- The compound of alchymie : a most excellent, learned, and worthy worke / written by Sir George Ripley ... conteining twelve gates -- Liber patris sapientiae -- Hermes bird -- The tale of the chanons yeoman / vvritten by our ancient and famous English poet, Geoffry Chaucer -- The worke of John Dastin -- Pearce the black monke upon the elixer -- The worke of Rich. Carpenter -- The hunting of the greene lyon / [Abraham Andrewes] -- The breviary of naturall philosophy / compiled by the unlettered scholar Thomas Charnock -- Bloomefields blossoms, or, The campe of philosophy / [William Bloomefield] -- Sir Edward Kelle's worke -- Sir Ed. Kelley concerning the philosophers stone, written to his especiall good freind [sic], G.S. gent. -- Testamentum Johannis Dee philosophi summi ... -- De lapide philosophorum / Thomas Robinsonus -- Experience and philosophy -- The magistery / W.B. -- Anonymi, or, severall workes of unkowne authors -- John
Gower concerning the philosophers stone -- The vision of sr. George Ripley, chanon of Bridlington -- Verses belonging to an emblematicall scrowle / supposed to be invented by Geo: Ripley -- The mistery of alchymists / composed by Sir Geo: Ripley -- The preface prefixt to Sir Geo: Ripley's Medulla -- A short worke that beareth the name of the aforesaid author, Sir G. Ripley -- John Lydgate, monke of St. Edmundsbury, in his translation of the second epistle that King Alexander sent to his master Aristotle -- Anonymi -- The hermet's tale -- A description of the stone -- The standing of the glasse for the tyme of the putrifaction, & congelation of the medicine -- Aenigma philosophicum / D.D.W. [R]edman -- Fragments -- Annotations and discourses upon some part of the preceding vvorke.


Indexed in: ESTC


Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed., 1994)


Indexed in: Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica

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