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Total number of records: 161

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Brotherton Collection7
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alchemy161
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medicine, magic, mystic and spagiric3

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Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604-1670)14
Philalethes, Eirenaeus Cosmopolita (Pseud.)10
Vaughan, Thomas (1622-1666)7
Becher, Johann Joachim (1635-1682)6
Jung, C G (1875-1961)6
Basilius Valentinus5
Libavius, Andreas (1616)5
Llull, Ramon (1232?-1316)5
Maier, Michael (1568?-1622)5
Paracelsus (1493-1541)5

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An alphabetical author catalogue of the library of old books on alchemy, chemistry and medicine collected by Alfred Chaston Chapman

Chaston Chapman, Alfred (1869-1932)

c.1901-1925

Contents: (1) authors, A-F, (2) authors, G-O, (3) authors, P-Z, and modern works on the history of chemistry, on the Royal Society and on brewing and distilling

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Opération spagérique rose croix - troisiÌme partie

17--

Contains descriptions of Rosicrucian alchemical experiments

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Institutiones chimicæ prodromæ, id est, Joannis Joachimi Becheri... Oedipus chimicus obscuriorum terminorum & principiorum chimicorum, mysteria aperiens & resolvens : Opusculum, omnibus medicinæ & chimiæ studiosis, lectu perquam utile & necessarium

Becher, Johann Joachim (1635-1682)

1664

"There were two editions of this book in 1664, one of which appeared at Amsterdam and the other one at Frankfurt... It may be supposed that the Frankfurt edition is the original and the Amsterdam edit...

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Lexicon chymicum : Cum obscuriorum verborum, et rerum hermeticarum, tum phrasium Paracelsicarum, in scriptis ejus: et aliorum chymicorum, passim occurrentium, planam explicationem continens

Johnson, William (fl. 1652-1678)

1652-53

Pt. II has separate t.p. with subtitle: Continens vocabula chimica in priore libro omissa, multis vocabulorum chymicorum characteribus adjectis e Basilio Valentino, Theophrasto Paracelso, Oswaldo Crol...

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Georgii Figuli Dilingani philosophi & chymiatri Novum & inauditum medicinæ universalis speculum cabalistico-chymicum

Figulus, Georgius

1660

Running title: Speculum medicinæ universalis. Bibliography: p. 42.

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Johannis Ottoni Helbigii, Thuringi, philosophi & medicinae doctoris, Introitus in veram atque inauditam physicam : epistola ex India orientali in Europam ad celeberrimam Sacri Romani Imperii Academiam naturae Curiosorum transmissa, apertus

Hellwig, Johann Otto Baron (1654-1698)

1680

Title on half title continues: magis elucidatus, et duabus epistolis augmentatus. Title of 1st supplementary letter, p. [49]: Vis aliena tessae, sive, Epistolium responsorium hermeticè commentans &...

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Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym... De occulta philosophia libri tres

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius (1486?-1535)

1533

Vignette port. on title. Some printing in Hebrew. Imprint from Mansell, date from colophon. In this edition, recto of 2d prelim. leaf ends "dice-". Pagination irregular.

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