?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BASILIUS VALENTINUS, attributed to. The Last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine. 15 symbolic woodcut text illustrations. [24], 312, 343-414, [8], 423-534 pages; lacks the folding table and 2N1-4 (pages 519-26). 8vo, early 19th-century calf, spine and cover edges worn, large stain on front cover; margins trimmed affecting headlines and slightly entering text on last few leaves, some marginal dampstaining, old signature on title. London: S. G. and B. G. Griffin for Edward Brewster, 1671
Collection of chemical and alchemical writings ascribed to a 14th-century German Benedictine monk, first published in German in 1626 and in English translation in 1657. DSB XIII, 559; Duveen, page 49; Partington II, 193.
