May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[Medicine & Science] Castaigne, Gabriel de (c. 1562-1630)
Le Grand Miracle de Nature Metallique.

Paris: Chez Charles Sevestre, 1615.

[Bound with] Ramon Llull's (c. 1232-c. 1315) Le Vade Mecum, ou Abregé de l'Art Chimique, Touchant la Transmutation des Metaux, & Vraye Pierre des Philosophes, Paris: Chez Charles Hulpeau, 1627, two small-format octavo titles bound as one, both alchemical in nature; bound in modern half leather, may be lacking interstitial blanks, 6 x 3 3/4 in.

Worldcat lists two copies of the Llull title, in Amsterdam and at the University of Wisconsin; both are rare at auction.