On the Secret Works of Art and Nature and the Nullity of Magic

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Hamburg, from the Froben bookshop (1617), octavo.
¶. Clement. Biblioth. cur. curious library Vol. 1, p. 339, note.

This edition is reprinted in the Bibliotheca chemica Chemical Library of J. J. Manget, Vol. 1, p. 616; however, the Epistola ad Lectorem Epistle to the Reader is missing there. At the end of the dedication to the fratres roseae crucis Brothers of the Rosy Cross, one reads these words: In Consessu Subsannatorum non sedi. Psalm. I. In the assembly of scoffers I have not sat. Psalm 1. From these, I have taken the year number set above.

--- Speculum Alchimiae, septem capitibus. Mirror of Alchemy, in seven chapters. Nuremberg, 1614, quarto.
¶. Lenglet du Fresnoy, Hist. de la philosophie hermetique. History of Hermetic Philosophy. Vol. 3, p. 110.
It is also in the Theatro chemico Chemical Theater, Vol. 2, and in J. J. Manget's Bibliotheca chemica Chemical Library, Vol. 1, p. 613.

--- de retardandis senectutis accidentibus, et sensibus confirmandis. on retarding the accidents of old age and confirming the senses. Oxford, 1590, octavo.
¶. Cat. Bibl. Bodlei. Catalog of the Bodleian Library. Vol. 1, p. 100.

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