Toux, Jean Louis Lucas de (& others)

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Collectanea, versiones et scripta rarissima, a quodam Theophilo, Hermeticae Philosophiae scrutatore sedulo, hoc in libro propria manu referta et multis elucidata, cujus nomen sub anagrammate 'Vocavi Sol candens exulto divus (i.e. Joannes Ludovicus Lucas de Toux) anno ... MDCCXXX. With additions in Russian, Latin, French and German, by Theodor Karzavin. On fol. 17v is a circular 'Schema elementorum philosophorum' in yellow and black, and on p. 237 a pen-drawn symbolic figure: the alchemical signs on pp. 238-243 are in black and yellow. Spaces have been left in No. 29 for the illustrations. No. 1 is written on the rectos only. Titles of the separate treatises translated into Russian are on small inserted slips.

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