Item #63060 Collectanea Chemica: Being Select Treatises On Alchemy And Hermetic Medicine. Eirenaeus PHILALETHES, George Starkey authors: Dr. Francis Antony, Sir George Ripley and Anonymous.
Collectanea Chemica: Being Select Treatises On Alchemy And Hermetic Medicine.

Collectanea Chemica: Being Select Treatises On Alchemy And Hermetic Medicine.

London: James Elliott & Co., 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo.160pp. Navy cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind device to upper board. The first edition of this work which comprises a collection of important alchemical and Hermetic tracts, taken from a manuscript that was formerly in the collection of Frederick Hockley. Light rubbing to all edges and extremities, corners and spine ends lightly bruised and chafed, page edges darkened, endpapers unevenly browned & foxed, tidy tape repair to chip at lower edge of inner margin of front blank, pages toned with just a very few tiny pencil marks - else a tight, clean better than VG copy of the scarce first edition. Item #63060

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