Alchymia Vera Lapidis Philosophorum = Von der Rechten wahren Kunst des Goldmachens, deren sich viel Aschenpeuster biß dahero ohne grund rühmen, title in red and black and with woodcut symbol, woodcut symbols, device, head- and tail-pieces and initials, [VD 17 3:606692C], Magdeburg, Andreas Betzel for Levin Brauns, 1609 bound with Cocheim (Johann Heinrich) Ein Philosophisch und Chymischer Tractat: genandt: Errantium In Rectam [et] planam viam Reductio. Das ist: Beständiger, first edition, woodcut arms and head- and tail-pieces, title trimmed at foot, affect part of imprint, [Ferguson I, 165; Wellcome I, 1520; Krivatsy 2528; VD 17 23:239300B], Strasbourg, Eberhard Zetzner, 1626, together 2 works in 1 vol., some spotting or staining, lightly browned, ink notes to pastedown, contemporary limp marbled boards, lacking backstrip, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo ⁂ Two rare works, with USTC recording only two copies of the first mentioned. The second mentioned Ferguson calls 'An interesting tract, though short it covers a good deal of ground and quotes leading authorities, of whom a list is given at the end'.
Alchymia Vera Lapidis Philosophorum = Von der Rechten wahren Kunst des Goldmachens, deren sich viel Aschenpeuster biß dahero ohne grund rühmen, title in red and black and with woodcut symbol, woodcut symbols, device, head- and tail-pieces and initials, [VD 17 3:606692C], Magdeburg, Andreas Betzel for Levin Brauns, 1609 bound with Cocheim (Johann Heinrich) Ein Philosophisch und Chymischer Tractat: genandt: Errantium In Rectam [et] planam viam Reductio. Das ist: Beständiger, first edition, woodcut arms and head- and tail-pieces, title trimmed at foot, affect part of imprint, [Ferguson I, 165; Wellcome I, 1520; Krivatsy 2528; VD 17 23:239300B], Strasbourg, Eberhard Zetzner, 1626, together 2 works in 1 vol., some spotting or staining, lightly browned, ink notes to pastedown, contemporary limp marbled boards, lacking backstrip, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo ⁂ Two rare works, with USTC recording only two copies of the first mentioned. The second mentioned Ferguson calls 'An interesting tract, though short it covers a good deal of ground and quotes leading authorities, of whom a list is given at the end'.
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