Science & Technology / Alchemy, Astrology & Occult

MIZAULD, Antoine. Memorabilium, utiliu[m], ac jucundorum centuriae novem, in aphorismos arcanorum omnis generis locupletes, perpulchrè digestae.
Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1566. 8vo. With Morel's woodcut tree device on the title-page, 2 woodcut headpieces and 7 woodcut decorated initials (plus 3 repeats), the headpieces and initials in an unusually delicate design, finely executed. Set in italic types with the preliminaries in roman, and incidental Greek. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [16], 136 pp. Full description

MONTE CUBITI, Vigilantus de (pseudonym of translator). Dreyfaches Hermetisches Kleeblat.
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(1) NUISEMENT, Clovis Hesteau de. Tractat von dem waaren geheimen Saltz der Philosophorum, und von dem allgemeinem Geist der Welt.
(2) NORTON, Samuel. Mercurius redivivus ...; Catholicon physicorum ...; Venus vitriolata, in elixir conversa ...; Elixir seu medicina vitae ...; Saturnus saturatus dissolutus & coelo restitutus ...; Metamorphosis lapidum ignobilium in gemmas quasdam pretiosas ...; Alchymiae complementum, et perfectio ...; Ein Tractätlein welches von den Philosophischen Schrifften handlet ...
(3) FICINO, Marsilio. Büchlein vom Stein der Weisen ...
Nürnberg, Michael and Johann Friderich Endter, 1667. 8vo. With an engraved title page and 16 full-page engravings. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, a (faded) manuscript shelf mark ("313") at the foot of the spine. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [15], [1 blank], [4], 448, [32] pp. Full description

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. Thesaurus et armamentarium medico-chymicum.
Venice, Johann Gabriel Hertz, 1707. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [8], 446 [=452], [52]; 162 [=168] pp. Full description

NIDER, Johannes. Preceptorium divine legis [preceded by] Prologus in expositionem decalogi [= Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive expositio decalogi].
[Colophon:] Ulm, Johann Zainer the elder, [1478/79]. Chancery (Foolscap) folio. Set in a rotunda gothic type, the preliminaries in two columns, with spaces for manuscript paragraph marks and initials, filled in in red ink, the initials Lombardic, one with interior decoration. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over square-edged wooden boards (from an Augsburg bindery active 1473-1494: Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002141), sewn on 3 double supports. Further with a brass catchplate on the front board and a brass anchor plate on the back board. The anchor plate still secures remnants of the leather strap that would have had a brass clasp. [246] ll. Full description

[NOSTRADAMUS, Michel]. Vingt prophéties de Michel de Nostradamus, derniérement trouvées manuscrites dans une célèbre bibliotheque des Pays-Bas. Avec explication et figures.
Liège, [ca. 1789]. 8vo. With 20 engraved emblems at the beginning of each chapter, several by Pieter Balthazar Bouttats. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled edges. VIII, 90, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PALINGH, Abraham. 't Afgerukt Mom-aansight Der Tooverye ...
Amsterdam, J. Rieuwertz, 1659. Small 8vo. WIth a woodcut title-vignette showing a witch on a broomstick leaving a house through the chimney (4.3 x 5.2 cm), 13 etched full-page illustrations on 8 plates by Salomon Savry. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 429, [19] pp. Full description

PEDEMONTANUS, Alexius (Girolamo RUSCELLI) (Johann Jakob Wecker, translator). De secretis libri sex mira quadam rerum varietatereferti, ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primum translate per Joannem Jacobum Weckerum.
Lyon, Guilelmus Rovellius, 1561. 8vo. Later vellum. 344 [= 342], [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PIEDMONT, Alexis of (Girolamo RUSCELLI). De secreeten ... inhoudende seer excellente ende wel geapprobeerde remedien, tegen veelderhande krancheden, wonden ende andere accidenten: met de maniere van distilleren, perfumeren, confituyren maecken, te verwen, coloeuren ende gieten.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Laurensz., 1636. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern sheepskin. 260, [12]; 164, [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PORTA, Giambattista della. Magiae naturalis, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII. Cum indice.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1585. 12mo. With Plantin's woodcut printer's device on the title page, and 9 decorated woodcut initials. Slightly later vellum, dark blue edges. 296, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

PRAETORIUS, Johann. Philologemata abstrusa de pollice: in quibus singularia animadversa vom Diebes-Daüme, et manu: item de patibulo, virgula Mercuriali, alruna, esu casei magico &c. Gerrae profanorum refutatae, cum revelata origine vera et admiranda superstitionum; et virga critica castigata habentur aliquot loca ambigua primaria celeberrimorum grammaticorum.
Leipzig, Elias Fiebig; printed in Zagan (now in Poland) by Johann Ockel, 1677. Small 4to (19.5 x 16 cm). With a woodcut illustration on title-page showing a hand with turned up thumb, and one woodcut in text (p. 195) showing a hand divided into alphabetical compartments. 18th-century vellum. 216 pp. Full description