Of the most secret chemical work of philosophers

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  • Reference
      GB 247 MS Ferguson 28
  • Dates of Creation
      17--
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      4to. 98 folios (numbered as pages 1-145, 1-49). 26.8 x 205 cm. Half calf

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Buechern kurtz buchern mogen uber furnemesten Buecher buechels fruchten kreutern. The Book of that most generous lord, Bernard Count March Trevisan. [In English]. XVIIIth century.
p1 Of the most secret Chemical Work of Philosophers, by means of elaborating nature and art.
p8 Part first of the Chemistry of Lord Bernard Trevisan. On the first Inventions of this art.
p15 Part second, in which are described the huge labours of the author and the great experiences with the singular operations from the beginning to the end, and truly with the most incontravertable success.
p83 Part third of the Book of Lord Bernard Count Trevisan in which he treats of the radexes and principles of the Metals and that by most evident reasons and authorities and Philosophical arguments.
p123-145 Fourth Book of Count March Trevisan of the practice of the Philosophers stone. [The allegory.]
p1-49 [New numbering] The third and last Part. Wherein is declared what the Metals are in their beginning and Principles, and how they ought to be considered.

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