Paracelsus (Philipp Aureol Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim). Paracelsus. Of the Chymical Transmutation, Genealogy and Generation of Metals & Minerals. Also, Of the Urim and Thummim of the Jews ... translated into English by R. Turner, 1st edition in English, printed for Rich[ard] Moon at the Seven Stars, and Hen[ry] Fletcher at the Three Gilt Cups in Paul's Church-yeard, 1657, [8] + 166 pages, title within woodcut decorative border, separate title page for the Experiments of Lully (printed by James Cottrel, 1657), early engraved armorial bookplate of William Blakiston Bowes to front pastedown, contemporary blind-ruled English calf, rubbed and some marks, 8vo (Qty: 1) Provenance: William Blakiston Bowes (1697-1721) of Streatlam Castle, County Durham, son of Sir William Bowes of Barnard Castle. Wing B3543. Duveen 454. Krivatsy 8576. Sudhoff 379. The first English translation of sections of Congeries Paracelsicae Chemiae de Transmutationibus Metallorum, first printed in 1581, translated by the astrologist and botanist Robert Turner and dedicated to William Backhouse (1593-1662), Rosicrucian philosopher and adoptive father of Elias Ashmole.
Paracelsus (Philipp Aureol Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim). Paracelsus. Of the Chymical Transmutation, Genealogy and Generation of Metals & Minerals. Also, Of the Urim and Thummim of the Jews ... translated into English by R. Turner, 1st edition in English, printed for Rich[ard] Moon at the Seven Stars, and Hen[ry] Fletcher at the Three Gilt Cups in Paul's Church-yeard, 1657, [8] + 166 pages, title within woodcut decorative border, separate title page for the Experiments of Lully (printed by James Cottrel, 1657), early engraved armorial bookplate of William Blakiston Bowes to front pastedown, contemporary blind-ruled English calf, rubbed and some marks, 8vo (Qty: 1) Provenance: William Blakiston Bowes (1697-1721) of Streatlam Castle, County Durham, son of Sir William Bowes of Barnard Castle. Wing B3543. Duveen 454. Krivatsy 8576. Sudhoff 379. The first English translation of sections of Congeries Paracelsicae Chemiae de Transmutationibus Metallorum, first printed in 1581, translated by the astrologist and botanist Robert Turner and dedicated to William Backhouse (1593-1662), Rosicrucian philosopher and adoptive father of Elias Ashmole.
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