WAITE, Arthur Edward ( Edited by ).

The Hermetic Museum; Containing Twenty-Two Most Celebrated Chemical Tracts. Complete in One Volume. [ The Hermetic Museum Restored and Enlarged. Most Faithfully Instructing All Disciples Of The Sopho-Spagyric Art How That Greatest And Truest Medicine Of The Philosopher's Stone May Be Found And Held. Now First Done into English From the Latin Original Published at Frankfort in the Year 1678. Containing Twenty-Two Most Celebrated Chemical Tracts ].

York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1991. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. Two Volumes in One. Large, thick, octavo. xiv + 680pp. Glossy card covers. Bb&w illustrations. Originally published in Latin in 1678, "The Hermetic Museum" was intended as a representative collection of the significant works of alchemy, many of which were rare even then. The translation was prepared for Lord Stafford by an unidentified alchemical scholar and was revised and edited by Waite. It was first published in an edition of 250 copies in 1893 by James Elliott & Co. This is the first paperback edition. Old "new" stock. Hint of light shelf-wear - but otherwise New, and thus near Fine condition. Item #70024

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