Alchemy--McLean, A.
£1,140
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
A commentary on the mutus liber. Magnum Opus Hermitic Sourceworks, 1982, one of 250 copies signed by the author, calf; Culpeper, N. Culpeper's English physician and complete herbal. London, [no date], 4to, frontispiece, lacking all plates, lacking blanks, contemporary calf, worn; and a rebacked 1835 copy; Alchemy Remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists. Boston, 1857, 8vo, original cloth, blind stamp on title; Job, Johann Anleitung zu denen curiösen mantia, Astrologia, etc... Frankfurt, 1737, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 31 plates, contemporary vellum [Wellcome p.356]; Williams, D. The stone of the philosophers, 1964, one of 200 copies, cloth-backed boards; Rattansi, P. Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries, 1994; Atwood, M.A. A suggestive inquiry into the hermetic mystery, 1920, cloth, spine faded; De Jong, H.M.E. Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens, 1969; Brann, N.L. The abbot Trithemius (1452-1516), 1981; Tiedemann, D. Disputatio de quaestione quae fuerit artium magicarum origo. Marburg, 1787, 4to, half morocco, title dust-soiled, worn; Broek, R. van den Corpus hermeticum, Amsterdam, 1996, dust-jacket; Quispel, G. Asclepius, Amsterdam, 1996, dust-jacket; Waite, A.E. The hermetic museum. New York, 1974, 2 volumes, dustwrappers and another set the same; Thompson, C.J.S. The mystic mandrake. London, 1934, illustrated, original cloth; Redgrove, H.S. Bygone beliefs. London, 1920, original cloth; and a quantity on alchemy, including a number of typescript and photocopied tracts bound in wooden boards and marked Ambix and Hermetic Journal (qty)