Lot 1104
1104
ALCHEMY -- MULLER, Ph. Miracula et misteria medica. Libris quinque enucleta [sic], quorum sumam pagina versa exhibet. (Wittenberg), L. Seuberlich for C. Berger, 1611. (24), 189 pp. W. title printed in red and black and w. woodcut ti-vign. & 12 woodcuts of chemical instruments and retorts in the text. Old brds. In mod. handmade brds. clamshell box w. mor. letterpiece on spine. (Spine & front side partly dam., leaf E1 dam. in lower outer corner (restored), with some loss of text; occas. sm. marg. defects and some staining/browning).
Extremely rare second edition of this important alchemistic work of Philipp Muller (1585-1659) chemist, botanist and professor of Mathematics at the University of Leipzig, in which for the first time potassium acetate was described. The work was very successful and went through at least 8 editions up until 1659. - Ferguson II, p. 115; cf. Caillet 7868/9 (eds. 1644 & 1656). - From the library of P.H. Boeckler, with his heraldic engr. bookplate on upper pastedown; below the bookplate an old owner's entry in pen: "A.J.F. Vigueron, D. Medecin (...)."€ 1600
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