Occult & Esoterica
[PHILALETHES, Eirenaeus, & others] Collectanea Chemica: Being Certain Select Treatises of Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine
[PHILALETHES, Eirenaeus, & others] Collectanea Chemica: Being Certain Select Treatises of Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine
London: Vincent Stuart Ltd., 1963. Second Impression (first published in this edition in 1893). Hardcover. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies. 160pp. Black cloth with gilt device to front, spine titled in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket with one short closed tear and very mild edge wear, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine jacket.
With contributions by Dr., Francis Antony, George Starkey, Sir George Ripley and anonymous unknown. The Hermetic tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript (itself a transcript from an older but now untraceable work) belonging tio the celebrated collection of the late Mr. Frederick Hockley. Tracts include: The Secret of the Immortal Liquor called Alkahest; Aurum Potable; The Admirable Efficiency of the True Oil of Sulphur Vive; The Stone of the Philosophers; The Bosom Book of Sir George Ripley; and The Preparation of the Sophic Mercury.