Item #59098 The Alchemy Reader, From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. Stanton J. LINDEN.

The Alchemy Reader, From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. [xxvi] + 260pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrations, glossary, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature and the arts." Spine ends very lightly bruised -otherwise a lovely clean copy in near Fine condition in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges, lightly creased and chafed at spine ends, not clipped). Item #59098
ISBN: 0521792347

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