A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature's Marvels. Concerning the Blessed Mystery Of the Philosopher's Stone.
London: Vincent Stuart Ltd., 1963. Second Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxii + 362 pp. Black cloth with gilt title etc, beige printed dust jacket, A photolithographic reprint - limited to 500 copies - of the First English edition which was edited and translated by (or for?) A. E. Waite, and published by James Elliott in 1893. The work is a collection of alchemical tracts collected, and in at least some cases written by Figulus, that were originally published in German, in Strasburg in 1608 under the Latin title "Pandora Magnalium Naturalium Aurea et Benedicta." "Containing the Revelation of the Most Illuminated Egyptian King and Philosopher, Translated by our German Hermes, the Noble Beloved Monarch and Philosopher Trismegistus, a. Ph. Theophrastus Paracelsus; Also Tinctura Physicorum Paracelsica, With an Excellent Explanation by the Noble and Learned Philosopher, Alexander Von Suchten, M.D.; Together With Certain Hitherto Unpublished Treatises by This Author, and also Other Corollaries of the Same Matter, as Specified in the Preface." A few very faint marks to cloth of rear board, top edge a little darkened & dusty, otherwise a tight, clean near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket edges lightly chafed, a coffee spot on spine, price-clipped. Dust jacket now in removable protective mylar sleeve). Item #64066
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