Theatrvm chemicvm britannicum
containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language
by Elias Ashmole
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This is one of the alchemy related books within Sir Isaac Newton's personal library. It is designated [H93] and kept at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. More information can be obtained from project Newton located at http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=88
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Theatrvm chemicvm britannicum: containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language
1652, Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke ...
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Theatrvm chemicvm britannicum: containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language
1652, Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke ...
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No more published.
T.p. printed in red and black; vignette.
Contents (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.
Most 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.
Includes errata, p. [8] and [9] at end.
Hogart, R. Alchemy, 29
Wing A3987
Frontispiece 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.
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