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The first known printed edition of Marsilio Ficino's Liber de arte chemica

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
€ 4,500
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The first work to describe potassium acetate

MÜLLER, Philipp. Miracula chymica et misteria medica. Libris quinque enucleta, quorum summam pagina versa exhibet.
[Wittenberg], Laurens Seuberlich for Clemens Berger, 1611. 12mo. With 12 woodcuts of 19 chemical instruments and retorts in the text, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, the title is printed in red and black.
Later paper boards, red sprinkled edges, in a modern burgundy solander box. [24], "189" [=191], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Large-margined copy of a classic incunable with sections on witchcraft, by Ulms first printer, in a contemporary, richly blind-tooled Augsburg binding

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). Further with a brass catchplate on the front board and a brass anchor plate on the back board. [246] ll. Full description
€ 35,000
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Twenty of Nostradamus's prophesies explained

[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
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First edition of a rare Dutch book on witchcraft containing some unsettling visuals
depicting supernatural phenomena and instances of extreme torment

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
€ 7,500
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Dutch translation of an immensely popular book of secrets

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
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Between surgery and the supernatural

PIGRAY, Pierre. Epitome praeceptorum medicinae chirurgiae cum ampla singulis morbis conuenientum remediorum expositione ...
Paris, by the widow of Marc Orry, 1612. 8to. With an engraved title, an engraved portrait of the author, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, 11, [1], 771, [33] pp. Full description
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First edition of a highly controversial work, seeking natural explanations for miraculous events

POMPONAZZI, Pietro. De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de incantationibus ... ante annos XXXV compositum, nunc primùm verò in lucem fideliter editum. Adiecta brevibus scholiis à Gulielmo Gratorolo Physico Bergomate.
Basel, (colophon:) Heinrich Petri, August 1556. Small 8vo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 17th-century vellum. [16], 349, [3] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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