Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MUSAEUM HERMETICUM reformatum et amplificatum. 41 engraved text illustrations; lacks the four folding plates. [12], 862, [1] pages, including engraved additional title and frontispiece. 4to, contemporary 1/2 vellum, worn, spine darkened; scattered light marginal foxing and dampstains, some worming in gutters, lower outer corner excised from front free endpaper, later 19th-century bookseller's ad mounted on front pastedown. Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1749

Additional Details

Reprinted from the 1678 edition of a major alchemical compilation comprising 21 key texts from the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods. Duveen, page 419; Ferguson II, 119.