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(ALCHEMY.) Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum Et Amplificatum, Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos fidelissime erudiens. 4 folding engraved plates; engraved text illustrations, including 3 full-page. [6] (of [12]), 863, [1] pages; lacks title and 2 other preliminaries. 4to, contemporary vellum, shelf label remnants on spine, covers wormed; contents browned with scattered stains, title to Aureus tractatus de philosophorum lapide bound before preliminaries, contents leaf torn and repaired without text loss, lower outer corner of C5 heavily abraded with resulting small hole, clean tears in plates 3 and 4 repaired on verso. Frankfurt am Main: Hermann von Sand, 1678
Second (and first complete) edition of a major alchemical compilation originally published in 1625, comprising 21 key texts from the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods. Duveen, page 418; Ferguson II, 119.
