Item #61714 The New Pearl of Great Price. A Treatise Concerning The Treasure And Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers; or the Method and Procedue of this Divine Art; With observations drawn from the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, First Published by Janus Lacinus, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index. BONUS of Ferrara, Janus Lacinius, Arthur Edward Waite.
The New Pearl of Great Price. A Treatise Concerning The Treasure And Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers; or the Method and Procedue of this Divine Art; With observations drawn from the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, First Published by Janus Lacinus, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index

The New Pearl of Great Price. A Treatise Concerning The Treasure And Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers; or the Method and Procedue of this Divine Art; With observations drawn from the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, First Published by Janus Lacinus, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index

London: James Elliot and Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 442 pp.+ ii pages publisher's adverts. Original black cloth with gilt title to spine, red borders to upper board, illustrated in black & white. "A Treatise Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers or the Method and Procedue of this Divine Art; With observations drawn from the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, First Published by Janus Lacinus, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index. The Original Aldine Edition Translated into English." A work thought to have been written by Petrus Bonus of Ferrara in about 1330. The Aldine Press version, from which this translation was made, was published in Venice in 1546. Cloth lightly rubbed and faded, two tiny abrasions to upper board, light bumps to edges and spine ends, page edges darkened, else a tight, clean VG+ copy of this scarce first edition. Item #61714

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