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Alchemy - PLANIS CAMPY (David). The Opening of...

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Alchemy - PLANIS CAMPY (David). The Opening of the Escolle of Metallic Transmutatory Philosophy. Paris [Paris], Charles Sevestre [Gutenberg reprints], 1633 [1979]. In-12 marbled basane, spine with ornamented nerves, double gilt fillet framing the boards with gilt fleurons in spandrels and gilt crowned sun in the centre (publisher's binding). Facsimile reprint. One of 80 copies bound by the workshops of the Reliure d'Art in Limoges. "Rare work by this famous Paracelsist physician, who attributed the causes of certain diseases to the influence of the stars and claimed to cure them by the method of Paracelsus." Caillet (8724 for the original 1633 edition).