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8vo: A–C 8 (–C7,8, presumed blank), 22 of 24 leaves, pp. 44.<br />
Krivatsy 4812; cf. Caillet 4591 dated 1658.<br />
4. Explicatio verborum salomonis: in herbis, verbis & Lapidibus<br />
magna est virtus.<br />
Amsterdam: prostant apud Joannem Janssonium, 1664.<br />
8vo: A–E8 F4 , 44 leaves, pp. 88.<br />
Krivatsy 4783.<br />
5. Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum<br />
plurimumque tartarum sit extrahendum.<br />
Amsterdam: prostant apud Joannem Janssonium, 1655.<br />
8vo: A–B8 (blanks B7,8), 16 leaves, pp. 28 [4, blank].<br />
Krivatsy 4790.<br />
6. Tractatus de medicina universalis, sive auro potabili vero.<br />
Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium, 1658.<br />
8vo: A–E8 (blank E8), 40 leaves, pp. 75 [2] [3, blank].<br />
Krivatsy 4809.<br />
7. De auri tinctura, sive auro potablili vero.<br />
Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium, 1651.<br />
8vo: Aa8 Bb4 (blank Bb4), 12 leaves, pp. 22 [2, blank].<br />
Krivatsy 4774, also issued with Furni novi philosophici, 1651.<br />
8. Consolatio navigantium.<br />
Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium, 1657.<br />
8vo: A–F8 , 48 leaves, pp. 96.<br />
Caillet 4568.<br />
9. Libellus dialogorum, sive colloquia, nonnullorum hermeticae<br />
medicinae, ac tincturae universalis studiosorum.<br />
Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium, 1663.<br />
8vo: A–F8 (blanks F7,8, 48 leaves, pp. 91 [5 blank]. 1 folding engraved<br />
plate.<br />
Krivatsy 4792.<br />
151 x 95mm. Good clean copies.<br />
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards. Spine soiled.<br />
First Latin editions of works also published in German.<br />
The second work in the volume, Tractatus de natura salium is one of Glauber’s<br />
most important works, describing his earlier discovery of sodium sulfate,<br />
‘Glauber’s Salt’. It was Wrst published in German by Jansson in the previous<br />
year. Only after the publication of this and the second part of Miraculum mundi<br />
(1660) ‘did Glauber recognize the signiWcance of his “Sal mirabile” (Glauber’s<br />
salt) and begin to utilize it, not very successfully, in the position that niter<br />
formerly held... he considered it to be common salt brought to its highest
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