[An alchimical nosegay Gathered from the Hesperides…]

An alchimical nosegay Gathered from the Hesperides garden by Ebenezer Sibly: M.D. 1793. Illustrated.
1. f1 [Title]: 'An Alchimical Nosegay Gathered from the Hesperides Garden by Ebenezer Sibly. M.D. 1793.' [ In English and Latin.]
2. f4-6 [Allegorical text on Green dragon.]
f8 [Emblematic pen drawing with four elements and planetary symbols.]
3. f11-12r Anima Magica Abscondita [Incomplete.]
f15 [Emblematic pen drawing.]
4. f18 Lucis Physicae Studiosis S. [8 lines of Latin. Incomplete fragment.]
f19-23 [Blank.]
f24 [Title only.]: 'The Philosophical Nosegay composed of many Choice and rare Flowers Gathered Out of the Wilderness and Labyrinth of Alchemical Books. J.C. 1767.'
5. f26-27 [Catalogue of Books.]
6. f29-41 Euphrates or the Waters of the East, being a short Discourse of that secret Fountain, whose water flows from Fire; and caries in it the Beams of the Sun and Moon. ... E.P. [i.e. Thomas Vaughan] 1655.
7. f42-48 Aula Lucis or The House of Light... S. Norton 1651.
8. f49-51 Necessary Instructions relating both to Theory and Practice gathered from different Authors. 1763.
9. f52-68 Lumen de Lumine or A new Magical Light written by Eugenius Philalethes.
10. f69 Aphorismi Magici Eugeniani. [Latin.]
11. f70-94 Three Treatises of Eireneus Philalethes. the Celestial Ruby, the Chymical Fountain and Ars Metallorum Metamorphosis. 1694.
[f73r has a coloured pen drawing showing seven crosses standing upon small hills connected with the planets and alchemical substances. This is set within a square of the four elements.]
12. f95-111 Sanguis Naturae or A Manifest Declaration of the Sanguine and Solar Congealed Liquor of Nature. By Anonimus 1696.
13. f113-130 Centrum Naturae Concentratum or The Salt of Nature Regenearated. Written in Arabick by Alipuli a Mauritian. Published first in low Dutch, afterwards in English... 1696.
[f113v has emblematic pen drawing.]
14. f131-166r A New Light of Alchymy by Michael Sandivogius.
[f131v has emblematic pen drawing.]
15. f166v-167r [12 drawings or descriptions of Orthelius's commentary on Sendivogius, see 'Theatrum Chemicum' Vol 6, p. 404.]
f167v [Emblematic coloured pen drawing, green dragon sun and moon tree, flask, etc.]
16. f168 [Notes on alchemical experiments.]

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