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DORN, GERHARD. Chymisticum artificium naturae, Theoricum & Practicum. Woodcut device on title incorporating the Monas Hieroglyphica of John Dee; 5 text woodcuts of laboratory apparatus. 156 pages (but with A3-6 bound between A8 and B1 and B3.4 between B1 and B2). 8vo, 155x95 mm, old vellum boards; contents dampstained, lower outer corner of title torn off with slight loss to woodcut device. Contemporary owner's signature on title and in text, and medicinal formulas on last page and rear endpapers. [Basel: Thomas Guarin], 1568
first edition of a iatrochemical treatise by an early follower of Paracelsus. An alchemical continuation was published the following year. "Dorn contributed significantly, through his translations and through his own writings, to the rapid dissemination of Paracelsian doctrines in the late sixteenth century, and his influence has been revived in the twentieth century through its importance to C. G. Jung's studies of alchemy"--DSB IV, 169.
