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6 vols 8vo:
I. 1613: ):( 4 A–3K8 3L4 (blank 3L4), 456 leaves, pp. [8] 869 (i.e. 871,
314–315 repeated) [30, index] [3, blank].
II. 1613: A–2P8 , 304 leaves, pp. [4] 598 [6]. lacking a folding
leaf of plates at p. 114.
III. 1613: A–3M8 , 464 leaves, pp. [4] 911 [12, index] [1, blank].
1 folded leaf of plates at p. 881.
De magni lapidis, 1613, A–B8 (blanks B7,8), 16 leaves, pp. 28
[4, blank].
IV. 1613: ):( 4 A–4D8 4E4 4F2 , 594 leaves, pp. [8] 1146 [33]
[1, blank]. 3 folding leaves of plates, at pp. 168, 174 and 663. lacking
a folding leaf of plates at p. 844.
V. 1622: ( * ) 4 A–O8 2O8 , P–3T8 3V4 , 536 leaves, pp. [8] 208, V.
209–219 [1] 219–222, pp. 223–1009 [31, index].
VI. 1661: 8 2
* ** (–** 2) A–3D8 (–3D8 ), 408 leaves, pp. [18] 772
[25, index and errata] [1, blank].
Woodcut printer’s device on titles, woodcut illustrations, diagrams,
Hebrew letters and hieroglyphic symbols in the text.
Vols I–V, 165 x 100mm; vol. VI. 180 x 115mm. Vol. I: titlepage frayed;
hole in pp. 609/10 restored with 13 words supplied in MS; II: H4,5
soiled in the margins; sigs 2K and 2L with wormtracks aVecting
several letters; III: hole in Wrst 8 leaves with loss of several letters;
sigs 2F and 2G with shoulder notes cropped; IV: titlepage soiled; K8,
K1, L8, M1, M8 and N1 stained from old repairs; V: sigs X–2A with
worming aVecting the text; VI: worming in lower margin, not aVecting
any text. Light browning and waterstaining to all volumes.
Binding: uniformly bound in 5 volumes (vols I and II in 1 volume)
in contemporary vellum boards. Several gatherings sprung; front free
endleaves of vols I and IV removed, some soiling.
Provenance: Ex libris inscription of Ottonis Tacket[?] on each title,
that on vol. IV dated 1650 [?]; another inscription on each title
‘[undeciphered] studiis O. G. Oxemanni’; early annotations, mostly
quite sparse. Walter Pagel’s signature in each volume.
Second edition of vols I–IV (Wrst ursel 1602 in 4 volumes), Wrst edition
of vol. V, 1622 and VI, 1661 (the last was also issued with reprints of
vols I–V, 1659). The collation in OCLC 9458753 does not include De
magni lapidis, here bound after vol. III, nor sig 2O2 in vol. V. These
were perhaps later additions. They are also present in the Neville copy.
Duveen p. 574; Neville II, pp. 538–39; cf. Ferguson II, p. 436 (1659–61).
‘The collection contains well over 100 alchemical tracts, including reprints
of contemporary authors and printed versions of unpublished medieval
manuscripts, some of which are now lost’ (Neville).