| Description |
1 leaf, 64 p. (unpaginated), 1 leaf : 17 cm. |
| Note |
This is the first issue of the second and third parts of Cooper's Catalogue of chymicall books. It was initially published separately from the first part of the Catalogue. Later issues appear together with the first part of the Catalogue. |
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Signatures: *2, A2-G2. |
| Gift |
Roy G. Neville; purchase; 2004. |
| Provenance |
Provenance: Inscription in ink on p. 8: "W. C[?]." |
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Provenance: Inscription in ink on p. 62: "Charles Eaton. 182[8?]-176[6?], 62 [arithmetical figure]. Ch. This book is 62 years old." |
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Provenance: On p. 41, a hand has been drawn in ink, apparently pointing to this entry: "Lord Blaise of Vigenere his discourse of fire and salt, discovering many secret mysteries, as well philosophical as theological. Lond. 1649." The immediately preceding entry in the catalogue is "Th. Vaughan. Vide Eugenius Philalethes." On p. 32, the latter book appears to be cross-referenced by a marginal notation in ink: "Eug. Philalethes alias Thomas Vaughan his Anthroposophia Theomagica, or a discourse of the nature of man..." |
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Provenance: On p. 22, a hand has been drawn in ink, apparently pointing to this entry: "J.H. his treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus and Crollius..." |
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Provenance: On p. 31, a hand has been drawn in ink, apparently pointing to this entry: "Four patents granted by King Henry the Sixth to certain persons, by authority of Parliament for finding the philosophers-stone, to transubstantiate baser metals into solid real gold and silver, to satisfie the creditors of the king and kingdom. Vide Prinne's Aurum Reginæ, or records in the Tower concerning queen gold. Lond. 1668." |
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Provenance: On p. 37, a hand has been drawn in ink, apparently pointing to this entry: "Jo. Rouenzon, his treatise of metallica, for the making of iron and other metals and materials with sea-coale, pit-coale, &c., with a brief explanation, demonstration and discovery of the inventions, instruments, engines, furnaces, &c., with the materials, things and works to be made by the said fewel." |
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Provenance: On p. 45, a bracket has been drawn in ink next to this entry: "An account of Mr. Boldnest's Aurora chymica, being a rational and chymical way to prepare animals, vegetals and minerals for physical use..." |
| Indexed In |
Neville, R. G., Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, volume 1, page 291-292 CHF #J. Hill |
| Subject(s) |
Chemistry -- Bibliography -- Early.
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Alchemy -- Bibliography -- Early.
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Booksellers' catalogs -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
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