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1. The second lash of Alazonomastix, laid on in mercie upon that stubborn youth Eugenius Philalethes, or, A sober reply to a very uncivill answer to certain observations upon Anthroposophia theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita [microform] [1651]

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Book — [2], 208, [5] p.
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2. The second wash, or, The Moore scour'd once more [microform] : being a charitable cure for the distractions of Alazonomastix [1651]

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Book — [18], 188, [1] p.
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3. Theatrum chemicum britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language [1652]

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Book — 8 p. l., 486, [8] p. illus. 19 cm.
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4. The chymists key to shut and to open, or, The true doctrin [sic] of corruption and generation in ten aphorismes, illustrated with most plain and faithful commentarie out of the pure light of nature [microform] [1657]

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Book — [12], 63 p.
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5. The [s]ceptical chymist, or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes [microform] : touching the spagyrist's principles commonly call'd hypostatical, [a]s they are wont to be propos'd and defended by the generality of alchymists : whereunto is præmis'd part of another discourse relating to the same subject [1661]

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Book — [18], 34, [2], 35-442 p.
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6. The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the spagyrist's principles commonly call'd hypostatical, as they are wont to be propos'd and defended by the generality of alchymists. : Whereunto is præmis'd part of another discourse relating to the same subject [1661]

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Book — [18], 34, [2], 35-442, [2] p. (the last 2 pages blank) ; 17 cm.
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7. Chymistry made easie and useful. Or, The agreement and disagreement of the chymists and galenists. [microform] [1662]

  • Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.
  • London. : Printed by Peter Cole, printer and book-seller, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange., 1662.
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Book — [10], 166 p.
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8. Philosophia maturata [microform] : an exact piece of philosophy containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosophers stone : with the wayes how to make the mineral stone and the calcinations of mettals : whereunto is added a work compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the philosophers stone : and the experiments of Rumelius and preparations of Angelo Sala, all most famous chymists in their time [1668]

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Book — [8], 142 p.
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9. Certain physiological essays and other tracts written at distant times, and on several occasions ... [1669]

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
  • 2d ed. wherein some of the tracts are enlarged by experiments, and the work is increased by the addition of a discourse about the absolute rest in bodies. - London, Printed for H. Herringman, 1669.
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Book — 5 p. l., 292, [2], 30 p. 22 cm.
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10. The last will and testament of Basil Valentine, monke of the Order of St. Bennet [microform] : which being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behind the high-altar of the Cathedral Chruch, in the imperial city of Ersord, leaving it there to be found by him whom God's Providence should make worthy of it : to which is added two treatises, the first declaring his manual operations, the second shewing things natural and supernatural : never before published in English [1671]

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Book — [26], 534 p. : ill.
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11. Metallographia, or, A history of metals [microform] : wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging ... : as also, the handling and shewing of their vegetability ... : gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch ... [1671]

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Book — [16], 388 p.
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12. Metallographia: or, An History of metals. Wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals ... the causes and manner of their generations ... with the description of sundry new metals ... the handling and shewing of their vegetability, and the discussion of ... questions belonging to mystical chymistry, as of the philosophers gold, their mercury, the liquor alkahest, aurum potabile ... [1671]

  • Webster, John, 1611-1682
  • London : printed by A[ndrew]. C[lark]. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-head in St. Pauls Church-yard, MDCLXXI. [1671]
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Book — [16], 388, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
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13. Metallographia, or, An history of metals [microform] : wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging, the causes and manner of their generations ... with the description of sundry new metals ... : as also the handling and shewing of their vegetability, and the discussion of the most difficult questions belonging to mystical chymistry, as of the philosophers gold, their mercury, the liquor alkahest, auram potabile, and such like : gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch, with some observations and discoveries of the author himself [1671]

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Book — [16], 388, [2] p.
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14. Of natural & supernatural things [microform] : also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented [1671]

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Book — 238 p.
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15. The last will and testament of Basil Valentine, monke of the Order of St. Bennet. [microform] : Which being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behind the high-altar of the Cathedral Church, in the imperial city of Ersord, leaving it there to be found by him whom God's Providence should make worthy of it. To which is added two treatises, the first declaring his manual operations, the second shewing things natural and supernatural. Never before published in English [1672]

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Book — [25], 534 p. : ill., charts.
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  • Last will and testament of Basilius Valentinus
  • A practick treatise together with the XII keys and appendix of the Great Stone of the ancient philosophers
  • Two treatises of the most eminent and incomparable philosopher Basil Valentine
  • Basilius Valentinus his treatise concerning the microcosme
  • The manual operations of Basil Valentine, whereby he hath prepared his medicines
  • An addition of Basil Valentine, which he himself hath annexed to his Manual operations, for a fuller declaration of the same
  • The second treatise of things natural and supernatural.
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16. Essays of the strange subtilty, determinate nature, great efficacy [brace] of effluviums. [microform] : To which are annext new experiments to make fire and flame ponderable: together with a discovery of the perviousness of glass [1673]

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
  • London : Printed by W.G. for M. Pitt, at the Angel near the little North Doore of St. Paul's Church., 1673.
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Book — [8], 69, [3], 47, [1], 74, [10], 85, [7] p.
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17. Essays of the strange subtilty great efficacy determinate nature of effluviums. [microform] : To which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable. : Together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass. : Also An essay, about the origine and virtue of gems [1673]

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Book — [8], 69, [3], 47, [1], 74, [10], 54, [4], 57-85, [23], 185 [i.e. 184] + p.
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18. Essays of the strange subtilty, great efficacy, determinate nature of effluviums. To which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable: together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass [1673]

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Book — 4 p l., 69 p., 1 l., 47, 74 p., 5 l., 85, [6] p. 18 cm.
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19. Tracts written by the honourable Robert Boyle [microform] : containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air : and about explosions : an hydrostatical discourse occasion'd by some objections of Dr. Henry More against some explications of new experiments made by the author of these tracts : to which is annex't, an Hydrostatical letter, dilucidating an experiment about a way of weighing water in water ... [1673]

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Book — 432 p. in various pagings.
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20. A discourse made before the Royal Society, Decemb. 10, 1674 [microform] : concerning the nature, causes, and power of mixture [1674]

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Book — [17], 120 p.
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21. A new light of alchymy [microform] : taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience : to which is added a treatise of sulphur [1674]

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Book — [16], 351 p.
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22. Advertisements about the experiments and notes relating to chymical qualities [microform] [1675]

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Book — 7 p.
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23. The art of chymistry [microform] : as it is now practiced [1675]

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Book — [31], 279 p.
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24. Of the mechanical causes of chymical precipitation [microform] [1675]

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Book — [3], 46 p.
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25. The compleat chymist, or, A new treatise of chymistry [microform] : teaching by a short and easy method all its most necessary preparations [1677]

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Book — [16], 285 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill.
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26. An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's preface. [microform] [1677]

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Book — 94 p.
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27. Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus, which discovers the ancient foundations of the late viperine salt [microform] : and his clavis thereunto [1677]

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Book — [23], 122, [24], 120 [13] p.
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28. Of a degradation of gold [microform] : made by an anti-elixir, a strange chymical narative [1678]

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Book — [4], 17 p.
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29. The works of Geber, [microform] : the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher [1678]

  • Works. English. 1678
  • Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.
  • London : Printed for N.E. by Thomas James Mathematical Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, at the Sign of the Printing-press in Mincing-lane; and are to be sold by Booksellers, MDCLXXVIII [1678]
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Book — [16], 302, [1] p.
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  • Of the investigation or search of perfection
  • Of the sum of perfection, or the perfect magistery
  • Of the invention of verity, or perfection
  • Of furnaces, &c. with a recapitulation of the authors experiments.
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30. Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury [microform] : which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general [1680]

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Book — [26], 272 p.
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31. Magnalia naturæ, or, The philosophers-stone lately exposed to public sight and scale [microform] : being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus, the late famous projection-maker at the emperours court at Vienna, came by and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection by projecting with it before the emperour and a great many witnesses, selling it &c. for some years past [1680]

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Book — [6], 31 p.
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32. The sceptical chymist; or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagirists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, to be the true principles of things. To which in this edition are subjoyn'd divers experiments and notes about the producibleness of chymical principles [1680]

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Book — 10 p.l., 440, [27], 268 p. 18 cm.
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33. A choice collection of rare chymical secrets and experiments in philosophy [microform] : as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums, and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar [1682]

  • Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
  • London : Printed for the publisher, and are to be sold by the book-sellers of London, and at his own house in Hewes Court in Black-Fryers, 1682.
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Book — [16], 272 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill.
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34. The tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed [microform] : which if a wise-man open (not the ambitious, covetous Cyrus) he shall find the treasures of kings, inexhaustible riches to his content [1684]

  • H. V. D.
  • London : Printed for William Cooper ..., 1684.
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Book — 32 p.
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35. A course of chemistry [microform] : containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicins which are used in physick : with curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this art [1686]

  • Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
  • The second edition very much inlarged / translated from the fifth edition in the French by Walter Harris, M.D. - London : Printed by R.N. for Walter Kettilby ..., 1686.
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Book — [27], 548, [14] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill.
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36. The works of Geber, the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher of the investigation and perfection of the philosophers-stone [microform] [1686]

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Book — [16], 302 p.
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37. Chymical disceptations, or, Discourses upon acid and alkali [microform] : wherein are examined the object of Mr. Boyle against these principles : together with a reply to a letter of Mr. S. Doctor of Physick & fellow of the colleg of *** : wherein many errors are corrected, touching the nature of these two salts [1689]

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Book — [12], 166, [4], 1, 6-30 p.
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38. Aphorismi Urbigerani, or, Certain rules, clearly demonstrating the three infallible ways of preparing the grand elixir, or circulatum majus of the philosophers [microform] : discovering the secret of secrets, and detecting the errors of vulgar chymists in their operations : contain'd in one hundred and one aphorisms, to which are added The three ways of preparing the vegetable elixir, or, Circulatum minus [1690]

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Book — [9], 51, [7], 61-86 [i.e. 84] p.
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39. An experimental discourse of some unheeded causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air [microform] : being a part of an intended natural history of air. [1690]

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Book — [5], 113 [i.e.143] p.
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40. An hundred and fifty-three chymical aphorisms, [microform] : to which, what-ever relates to the science of chymistry may fitly be referred [1690]

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Book — [16], 27 [i.e. 54], [1] p.
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41. Chymicus rationalis, or, The fundamental grounds of the chymical art [microform] : rationally stated and demonstrated by various examples in distillation, rectification, and exhaltation of vinor spirits, tinctures, oyls, salts, powers, and oleosums ... : in which is contained A philosophical description of the astrum lunare microcosmicum, or phospheros ... [1692]

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Book — [14], 154, [6] : ill.
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42. Medicina practica, or, Practical physick : shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies. As all sorts of aches and pains, apoplexies, agues, bleeding, fluxes, gripings, wind, shortness of breath, diseases of the brest [sic] and lungs, abortion, want of appetite, loss of the use of limbs, cholick, or belly-ach, apostems, thrushes, quinsies, deafness, bubo's, cachexia, stone in the reins, and stone in the bladder: with the preparation of the Præcipiolum, or universal medicine of Paracelsus. To which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley. All translated out of the best Latin editions, into English ... Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers. The whole compleated in three books [1692]

  • Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
  • London : Printed by W. Bonny, for Tho. Howkins in George-Tard in Lombard-street, and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry, 1692.
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Book — 3 pts. in 1 volume ([26], 472, [2], [433]-696 pages, [8] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)
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43. Penotus palimeis, or, The alchymists enchiridion [microform] : in two parts : the first containing excellent experienced chymical receipts and balsoms for healing and curing most diseases incident to the body of man &c. : the second part containing the Practica mirabilis for the accomplishing and obtaining ... the white and red elixir ... : together with a small treatise ... written by that very ancient philosopher Arislaus, concerning the philosophers stone : to which second part is prefix'd an apologetic introduction, written by that very ancient philosopher Arislaus, concerning the philosophers stone : to which second part is prefix'd an apologetic introduction, written in answer to a scurrilous libel ... by D. Nicholaus Guibertus ... [1692]

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Book — [6], 20, [6], 61, [9] p.
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44. The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: [microform] : containing great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals. Also various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving barren-land, and the fruits of the earth. Together with many other things very profitable for all the lovers of art and industry [1694]

  • Works. English. 1694
  • Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
  • The second edition. - London : Printed by the author, and are to be sold at his house next door to the Gun in Little-Moorfields, and by S. Manship at the Ship near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, MDCXCIV. [1694]
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Book — [9], 440, [3], 220, 92, [8] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.
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45. Otto Tachenius his Hippocrates chymicus [microform] : discovering the ancient foundation of the late viperine salt : with his Clavis thereunto annexed [1696]

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Book — [14], 122, [9] p.
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46. Sanguis naturæ, or, A manifest declaration of the sanguine and solar congealed liquor of nature [microform] [1696]

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Book — [4], 112 p.
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47. A course of chymistry [microform] : containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicins which are used in physick : with curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this art [1698]

  • Cours de chymie. English
  • Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
  • The third edition / translated from the eighth edition in the French, which is very much enlarged beyond any of the former. - London : Printed by R.N. for Walter Kettilby ..., 1698.
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Book — [24], 44, [10], 45-815, [17] p. : ill.
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48. A new method of chemistry; including the theory and practice of that art: laid down on mechanical priciples, and accommodated to the uses of life. The whole making a clear and rational system of chemical philosophy. To which is prefix'd a critical history of chemistry and chemists, from the origin of the art to the present time [1727]

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Book — xvi, 383, 335, [43] p. II pl. 26 cm.
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49. Philosophical principles of universal chemistry : or, the foundation of a scientifical manner of inquiring into and preparing the natural and artificial bodies for the uses of life : both in the smaller way of experiment, and the larger way of business : design'd as a general introduction to the knowledge and practice of artificial philosophy : or, genuine chemistry in all its branches : drawn from the Collegium Jenense of Dr. George Ernest Stahl [1730]

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Book — xxviii, 424, [24] pages ; 20 cm
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50. A new method of chemistry; including the theory and practice of that art [1753]

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Book — 2 v. fold. plates. 27 cm.
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