Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SENDIVOGIUS, MICHAEL [i. e., SEDZIWOJ, MICHAL]. A New Light of Alchymie . . . To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur . . . Also Nine Books of the Nature of Things, written by Paracelsus . . . Also a Chymicall Dictionary. English translation by John French. [16], 147, [5]; [8], 104, 107-145, [1]; [50] pages. 4to, 184x136 mm, contemporary sheep, rebacked with morocco, endpapers renewed; marginal dampstaining throughout, most noticeable at beginning of volume with restoration in upper margin of preliminaries affecting top of title border and some headlines, scattered early underscoring and marginal markings. London: Richard Cotes for Thomas Williams, 1650

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first edition in english of the 1608 Novum lumen chymicum, "one of the most famous collections of alchemical tracts ever published . . . The present edition was an important sourcebook for Newton's study of alchemy" (Neville). DSB XII, 307; Duveen, page 544; Krivatsy 10894; Neville II, 455; Sudhoff 365.