HOGHELANDE, Theobaldus de (c.1560-1608). De alchemiae difficultatibus, in quo docetur quid scire quidquid vitare. Cologne: Henricus Falckenburg, 1594
8° (156 x 100mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. (Without errata leaf, minor repair at title, some light staining and browning, occasional tiny wormholes, small paperflaw on C8 with minor loss.) Contemporary vellum, speckled edges (bowed, lacking ties and lightly stained). Provenance: early annotations — ink shelfmark on title.
RARE FIRST EDITION of this alchemical treatise. Only one copy recorded in ABPC/RBH. Duveen pp.299-300; Ferguson I, 412; VD16 H4313 Wellcome I, 3273.
HOGHELANDE, Theobaldus de (c.1560-1608). De alchemiae difficultatibus, in quo docetur quid scire quidquid vitare. Cologne: Henricus Falckenburg, 1594
8° (156 x 100mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. (Without errata leaf, minor repair at title, some light staining and browning, occasional tiny wormholes, small paperflaw on C8 with minor loss.) Contemporary vellum, speckled edges (bowed, lacking ties and lightly stained). Provenance: early annotations — ink shelfmark on title.
RARE FIRST EDITION of this alchemical treatise. Only one copy recorded in ABPC/RBH. Duveen pp.299-300; Ferguson I, 412; VD16 H4313 Wellcome I, 3273.
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