GLAUBER (Johann Rudolph). Lot n° 46

The Description of the new philosophical furnaces, or Distilling Art. - The Mineral Work. - The Dyeing of Gold, or True Drinking Gold. - Treated with universal medicine, or true drinking gold. - The Consolation of Sailors. Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1659. 5 books in one volume in-8, granite calf, decorated spine, speckled edges (Binding of the period). Precious collection of five rare treatises by Glauber on alchemy, chemistry and spagyric medicine, all in a first French edition, translated by Bernard Du Teil. Les Nouveaux fourneaux philosophiques originally appeared in German in 1646-1649, then in Latin and English from 1651. In the French edition, the work is divided into five parts, under particular pagination and title, followed by Annotations on the fifth part, which are frequently missing. The illustration consists of 2 plates out of text containing 10 (out of 16) figures engraved on copper. In this copy, the figures have been cut out and bound, each opposite the page to which it relates. The Mineral Work consists of three parts, devoted respectively to the separation of gold from fire stones, sand, clay, and other fossils, by the spirit of salt; to the birth and origin of all metals and minerals; and finally to the book of Paracelsus called the Heaven of the Philosophers, in which the transmutations of metals are taught. A fine copy in the binding of the time. From the Max Cointreau library, with ex-libris. Binding skilfully restored, worm stitches in the margins of the last pages, slight freckles, six figures missing, two figures torn without missing. Caillet, n°4570 - Ferguson, I, 327 - Wellcome, III, 123-125 - Krivatsy, n°4804 - Duveen, 257.