Sales catalogue 47: Marks and Co

Date:
1940
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/28
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 47: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    435 436 437 438 439 440 44] 442 443 444 HAYNES (E. S. P.) The BELIEF in PERSONAL IMMORTALITY, SECOND EDITION, REVISED, ~ 8vo., cloth, 1925 3/= HECKETHORN (CHARLES WILLIAM) SECRET SOCIETIES of all AGEs and COUNTRIES, BrsT EDITION, thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged, 2 vols, 8vo., cloth, SCARCE, Redway, 1897 £2/15/- ** A comprehensive account of upwards of one hundred and sixty Secret Organisations— Religious, Political, and Social—from the most Remote Ages down tothe Present Time.” HEILIGE BALTHASAR (Der) ein BRUDER ROSENKREUTZER, Oder geheime Geschichte der Bemtthungen der Btirder Rosenkreutzer der Protestantischen Religion den tollesten Mysticismus aufzupfropfen, post 8vo., boards, n. p. or p. [Gotha Ettinger], 1795 12/- Gardner, Bib. Rosicruciana, No. 291. Westcott Hermetic Library label on inside front cover. HELMONT (FRANCcIScUS MERCURIUS. VAN) The PARADOXAL DISCOURSES concerning the MACROCOSM and MICROSCOSM of the GREATER and LESSER WORLD, and their Union, set ~ down in Writing by J. B., and now published, First EDITION, with 2 engraved plates, 8vo., contemp. calf (joints partly cracked), 1685 £1/10/- Bibliotheca Osleriana, No. 2928. Franciscus Mercurius Helmont was the youngest son of J. B. Van Helmont. He was a physician, a chemist (he led people to believe that he had the secret and means of transmutation), and a theosophist. HERMES MERCURIUS TRISMEGISTUS.—The DIVINE PYMANDER, in XVII. Books, translated by that Learned Divine, DocTror [JOHN] EVERARD, [edited by JOHN FRENCH], FirST ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 12mo., neatly bound in old style sheep, 1650 £4/15/- Some stains and a small hole in page 51/52 affecting 2 lines of text. Has the final leaf containing Errata, 3 lines, printed twice on the same page. ANOTHER Copy (wanting the “ Errata ’”’ leaf, some stains), old calf (worn), 1650 — £3/-/= 4 ERKANNTNISS der NATUR und des darin sich offenbahrenden GROSSEN GOTTES, nach Griechischen und Lateinischen . . . verfertiget von ALETHOPHILO, engraved em- blematic frontispiece, post 8vo., boards [Hamburg], 1786 15/- The introduction contains an elaborate account of the “‘ person and genealogy of Hermes,” based mainly on Borrichius’ researches and includes a translation of the “ Tabula Smaragdina.”” The rest of the book consists of a translation of the “‘ Péemander,” ** Asclepius,”’ and the writings to “‘ Tatius ’” and ‘‘ Ammon.” : Vide MEAD (G. R. S.), post. An English Translation, with a Preface and Notes by ‘‘ SAPERE AUDE,”’ thin post 8vo., — cloth, 1893 8/6 This copy has the MS. annotations of R. W. Councell, author of ‘‘ Apologia Aichymiz,” his signature being almost erased from title-page. HERMETIC ART.—A SHoRT ENQUIRY concerning the HERMETIC ART, by a LOVER of PHILALETHES, with Preface by ““ NON OMNIS Mortar,” edited from the edition of 1714, with an INTRODUCTION to ALCHEMY and NOTES by S. S. D. D., thin post 8vo., cloth, 1894 12/- Collectanea Hermetica, edited by W. Wynn Westcott, Vol. IIT. HERMETIC MUSEUM.—Muvus&uM HERMETICUM, Omnes Sopho-Spagyrice artis discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens, . . ..Continiens Tractatus Chymicos IX. praestantis- simos, .. . In gratium filiorum doctrine, quibus Germanicum idioma ignotum, in Latinum conversum ac juris publici factum, First EDITION, engraved title and numerous — large woodcuts (separate titles to each tract [last tract missing]), continuous pagination (age- stained), sm. 4to., old rebacked calf, Francofurti, 1625 . £4/4/- CONTENTS :—1, Tractatus Aureus de Lapide Philosophico ; 2, Henricus Madathanus [Hadr. 4 Mynsicht] Aureum Seculum redivivum ; 3, [Siebmacher (J. A.)] Hydrolithus Sophicus ; 4, Jean de Mehung, Demonstratio Nature [et Nicolas Flamell. Sum- marium Philosophicum] ; 5, Via Veritatis Unice ; 6, Gloria Mundi, seu Tabula seu Paradisi ; 7, Tractatus de Generatione Metallorum ; 8, Alze, De Lapide Philosophico . opusculum liber Alze nuncupatum ; 9, [tract which is missing] Lambspringk (—) De Lapide Philosophorum figure et emblemata.
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