Alchemy. Gloria mundi, aliâs, paradysi tabula,... Lot 10

Alchemy. Gloria mundi, aliâs, paradysi tabula, hoc est : vera priscae scientiae descriptio, quam Adam ab ipso Deo didicit ; Noe, Abraham et Salomo, tamquam summorum divinorum donorum unum usurparunt, omneis Sapientes, omnibus temperibus, pro totius Mundi Thesauro habuerunt, & solis piis post fese reliquerunt, Nimirum De Lapide Philosophico. Et] LAMBSPRINCK [...] De Lapide Philosophico, E Germanico versu Latinè redditus, per Nicolaum Barnaudum Delphinatem Medicum, hujus scientae studiosissimum. Francofurti, Apud Hermannum à Sande, 1677. Small in-4 of [1] f.-pp. 205-371. Light spotting and foxing, modern handwritten annotation in blue ink at bottom of page 339. Reunion of 2 treatises taken from Sendivogius' Musaeum hermeticum (1678): I. The first treatise "Gloria Mundi" whose author remained anonymous was first published in German in Frankfurt in 1648. II. The second treatise is an alchemical poem in German accompanied by fifteen emblems, which appeared at the end of the 16th century under the name of Lambspring (or Lambsprinck or Lamspring). Initially circulating in manuscript form, it was translated into Latin and published under the title De Lapide Philosophico, without the illustrations, by Nicolas Barnaud in 1599 in his collection Triga Chemica. It was reproduced with the emblems in the Musaeum Hermeticum collection by Lucas Jennis in 1625 and then included in this 1678 edition. According to René Alleau, in his warning to the edition of the Treatise in the Biblioteca Hermetica of 1972 (p. 14/15), the fanciful coat of arms of Lambsprinck (found engraved on p. 339), and the variations in the spelling of his name, indicate that it is a cabalistic pseudonym formed on the German lam (lamb) and springen (to spring), which he interprets as an allusion to the fountain of youth. The illustration, engraved on copper in the text, consists of a title vignette, the famous coat of arms with lambs and the 15 alchemical emblems. "Collection of 21 alchemical treatises, most of them dealing with the philosopher's stone or occult medicine. A work of the greatest rarity, adorned with numerous engraved vignettes and frontispieces." Caillet, 7891, regarding the 1678 edition of the Musaeum hermeticum. (Caillet 4599 and 6030.)