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Dufrenoy, Pierre Armand (1792-1857)5
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De mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque

Albertus Magnus, Saint (1193?-1280)

1569

Includes index.

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A description of new philosophical furnaces, or, A new art of distilling, divided into five parts : whereunto is added a description of the Tincture of gold or The true aurum potabile : also the first part of the mineral work, set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth

Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604-1670); French, John (1616-1657)

1651

Each part has special title page dated 1652. "Of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile" and "Of the minerall work, the first part" have separate title pages dated 1652.

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Metallorum ac metallicorum naturæ operum ex orthophysicis fundamentis recens elucidatio : qua eorum omnium principia, causæ, proprietates, generationes; generationúmque modi aperte ac fideliter enucleantur

Conti, Luigi de'

1665

Title page printed in red and black. Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut; image 93 x 80 mm. Subject: Cross with alchemical symbols; caption: A.M.D.G. symbolum adeptorum. Publisher's device on t.p.: 1...

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Fleta minor : the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals, in two parts (v.1-2)

Ercker, Lazarus (1594); Pettus, Sir John (1613-1690)

1683

Title page of vol. 2 reads: Fleta minor, spagyrick laws, the second part. Containing essays on metallick words: alphabetically composed, as a dictionary to Lazarus Erckern... by Sir John Pettus. Vol...

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Pyrotechnical discourses : Being I. An experimental confirmation of chymical philosophy

Kunckel, Johann (1630?-1703); Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660-1734); Fritsch, Johann Christian (1676-)

1705

Kunckel's and Fritsch's discourses have divisional titlepages. Stahl's discourse, caption-titled "Of the original of metallick veins,"is an inserted sheet, sig [N], which duplicates the page numeratio...

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Georg. Ernest. Stahlii... Fundamenta chymiae dogmaticae & experimentalis : & quidem tum communioris physicæ mechaniæ pharmaceuticæ ac medicæ tum sublimioris sic dictæ hermeticæ atque alchymicæ : olim in privatos auditorum usus posita, jam vero indultu autoris publicæ luci exposita : annexus est ad coronidis confirmationem Tractatus Isaaci Hollandi de salibus & oleis metallorum

Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660-1734); Carl, Johann Samuel (1676-1757); Hollandus, Johan Isaäc

1723-32

Notes, to lectures first given in 1684, arranged in an authorized version by the author's student Johann Samuel Carl. Cf. Cole DSB. Title pages in red and black, tailpieces, initials. Errata: fina...

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Voyage métallurgique en Angleterre : ou, Recueil de mémoires sur le gisement, l'exploitation et le traitement des minerais d'étain, de cuivre, de plomb, de zinc et de fer, dans la Grande-Bretagne

Dufrénoy, Pierre Armand (1792-1857); Élie de Beaumont, Léonce (1798-1874)

1827

One vol. contains text and the other illustrations.

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