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Title
Theatrum chemicum Britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. The first part / faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole ...
Call Number
N-003358
Identifier
ark:/88435/j3860d936
Publisher
London : Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke, at the angel in Cornhill, [1652]
Language
English
Date Created
1652
Extent
[2, 16], 1-280, 285-292, 289-486, [8] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
References
ESTC R205904
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) A3987
Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica p. 31
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
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.
Notes
Signatures: pi1 A-3S⁴ [$3 signed ( -A1, B3, C1, I2, O2, Q2, 2U2, 2X2, 2Y3, 3D2; 2Z3 signed Zx3)].
Only this first part published.
T.p. in red and black.
Roman, italic and gothic type.
Printer's device on t.p.
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.
Ex copy: Imperfect: leaf Rrr4, and folding diagram entitled "Here followeth the figure conteyning all the secrets of the treatise both great & small," wanting.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Modern full calf binding.

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Subject
Alchemy—Early works to 1800
Calf bindings

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File Count
520

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Collection
Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700
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