Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[ATREMONT, H. D'.] Das Grab der Armut, darinnen klärlich von der Veränderung der Metallen, und dem Wege darzu zugelangen, gehandelt wird. 116 pages. 12mo, contemporary binding of early manuscript vellum over boards, bulked with blank leaves at end, cover edges worn through; margins trimmed entering date in title imprint, early owner's signature on title, later owner's notes on facing endpaper, scattered early notes and scrawls on blanks at end. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Peter Zubrodt & heirs of Johann Baptist Schönwetter, 1672

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first edition in german of an alchemical treatise originally published the same year in French, revealing the author's transmutational secrets. Ferguson II, 54 note.
bound with: Partlicius, Simon. Officiarium magistratus, medicorum, amicorum, pictura Justitiae, Aesculapi, Amicitis. Title within woodcut border; 3 full-page woodcut illustrations. [2], 48 [i. e., 45] pages. Erfurt: Philipp Wittel for Johann Birckner, [1624]. first edition of a tract on the iconography and attributes of the Greek god Asclepius and the Roman goddesses Justitia and Amicitia.