Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243
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Sale 2243 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BASILIUS VALENTINUS.) [Thölde, Johann.] Haliographia. De Praeparatione, Usu, ac Virtutibus omnium Salium, Mineralium, Animalium, & Vegetabilium. Ex manuscriptis, & Originalibus Fratris Basilii Valentini. [16], 102, [2] pages, including engraved additional title and final colophon leaf with printer's device. Small 8vo, contemporary vellum with later blank paper over spine; scattered light foxing, minor worming in blank lower inner corner of opening leaves, inscription inked out in blank lower margin of letterpress title. Prince Liechtenstein armorial bookplate. Bologna: (Niccolò Tebaldini), 1644
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first edition in latin of the fourth part of Thölde's 1603 German-language treatise on the production, properties, and uses of mineral salts, "the only work by the presumed author of the writings of Basil Valentine which was published under his own name" (DSB). DSB XIII, 559; Duveen, page 576; Ferguson II, 445; Krivatsy 873; Partington II, 186-88; Thorndike VII, 156.