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100 1 $aAshmole, Elias,$d1617-1692.
245 10 $aTheatrvm chemicvm britannicum :$bcontaining severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language /$cfaithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq., qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus ; the first part.
246 3 $aTheatrum chemicum britannicum
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke ...,$c1652.
300 $a[16], 486, [10] (the last blank) p., [1] folded leaf of plates :$bill., port. ;$c20 cm. (4to)
500 $aNo more published.
500 $aT.p. printed in red and black; vignette.
500 $aContents (p. [1], final sequence of pagination) comprises 31 entries, including: Ordinall of alchemie / Thomas Norton. Compound of alchemie / George Ripley. Chanon's yeoman's tale / Geoffry Chaucer. Sir Edward Kelley's Worke. Doctor John Dee's Testament. Secreta secretorum / Iohn Lydgate.
500 $aMost of the 11 engraved ill. by Robert Vaughan are within borders decorated with birds, insects, small animals and flowers. Some are signed in the plate. Woodcut tailpiece (two-headed dragon with sun and moon) appears on p. 212 and 379. Folded plate is engraved diagram, with title: Here followeth the figure conteyning all the secrets of the treatise both great & small. It is signed in the plate: John Goddard sculpsit. Engraved ill. on p. [437] signed in the plate: T. Cross sculp. Engraved horoscope of Edward Kelley, p. 479. Tailpieces, decorated initials, fleurons.
590 $aFrontispiece of Library's copy is engraved port. of Ashmole, with legend: Pub. by WRichardson June 1, 1797 York House, 31 Strand. Remargined at top and foredge.
500 $aIncludes errata, p. [8] and [9] at end.
510 4 $aHogart, R. Alchemy,$c29
510 3 $aWing$cA3987
650 0 $aAlchemy$xEarly works to 1800.
655 7 $aEngravings$zEngland$y17th century.$2aat
655 7 $aWoodcuts$zEngland$y17th century.$2aat
700 1 $aCross, Thomas,$dfl. 1632-1682.
700 1 $aVaughan, Robert,$d17th cent.
700 1 $aGoddard, John,$dfl. 1645-1671.
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911 $aManly P. Hall Collection
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