Title within woodcut border & numerous woodcut illus. in the text. 8 p.l., 168 leaves. Small 4to, cont. limp vellum. [Venice: Comin da Trino for C. T. de’ Navò], 1558.

Third edition of the first systematic book on mining and metallurgy; according to Cyril Stanley Smith, the second edition of 1550 and our edition are far superior to the first edition of 1540 for in that earlier edition “the type is worn, poorly aligned, and arranged in a solid mass, unrelieved by paragraphing.”–Smith & Gnudi, The Pirotechnia (1943), pp. xix-xx.

Biringuccio (1480-1539?), after travelling throughout Italy and Germany, inspecting metallurgical operations and running an iron mine... More about Pirotechnia. Li Diece Libri Della Pirotechnia, Nelli quali si tratta non solo la diversità...

6 p.l., 276 pp. 12mo, cont. vellum over boards. Paris: C. du Mesnil & T. Jolly, 1654.

First edition of “the first independent bibliography of chemistry and alchemy, including manuscript material, based on the author’s very considerable collection of 4,000 books and manuscripts. Borel, ‘medecin ordinaire du Roy,’ made some original contributions to medicine and also wrote on optics, the microscope, botany, and antiquarian subjects.”–Grolier Club, Bibliography, 59.

A fine copy of a book which has become scarce. Contemporary signature “Ex libris Francisci Sauvin Med.” at head of title. François Sauvin was a 17th-century physician who wrote or edited a number of medical... More about Bibliotheca Chimica. Seu Catalogus Librorum Philosophicorum Hermeticorum...Authorum Chimicorum,...

Woodcut printer's device on title & 16 woodcuts in the text. 250, [10] pp., one leaf of errata. 8vo, late 16th cent. richly blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, orig. clasps & catches. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1567.

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PICODELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco. Libri III. De Auro...Accessit Bernhardi Comitis antiqui Trevirensis... Per Chemeias :[in Greek] Opus Historicum & dogmaticum, ex Gallico in Latinum simpliciter versum, & nunc primùm in lucem editum. Woodcut printer's device on title. 13, [3] (blank), 223 pp. 8vo. OberUrsel: C. Sutor, 1598. More about Aromatum, et Simplicium aliquot Medicamentorum apud Indos Nascentium Historia...nunc verò...

Edited & with a Preface by Michael Toxites. Typographical device on title. 8 p.l. (final leaf a blank), 55 numbered leaves, one blank leaf. Small 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed paste-paper boards (first three leaves a little defective in lower outer corner, minor browning), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Strasbourg: N. Wyriot, 1572.

First collected edition of all the texts Paracelsus had written during his lifetime on the “Philosopher’s Stone,” here gathered and edited by Toxites, the disciple of Paracelsus and a chief editor of his writings. In his Preface, Toxites states that the Manuale de Lapide medicinali is printed here... More about De Lapide Philosophorum, Drey Tractat…I. Manuale de Lapide medicinali. II. De Tinctura...