Megale chymia (graece), vel magna Alchymia.
by Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn
This is a treatise and instruction on the manifest and hidden natures, types, and properties of all kinds of wondrous earth plants, such as ores, metals, minerals, earth juices, sulfurs, mercurials, salts, and rocks...
Berlin, Nikolaus Voltz; 1583
With woodcut title border, woodcut portrait in the text, and some text woodcuts.
6 leaves, 144 pp., 6 leaves.
Modern hardcover, new endpapers.
- VD16 T 1178. Ferguson II, 453. Wellcome I, 6302. Duveen 579. Schmieder 286. Ferchl 536. Sudhoff 213-
Note Bruning 555: "In this work by Thurneisser, which deals with salt ammonia, he claims that it was already prepared in 834 by a gifted miner in Tyrol, named Hans von der Zeyt." -
Browned and stained in upper right corner, some wormholes.
Folio. Size 9 3/4 by 15"
Text in German

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