La toyson d'or, ou, La fleur des thresors : en laquele est succinctement & methodiquement traicte de la pierre des philosophes, de son excellence, effects & vertu admirable ... : enrichies de figures, & des propres couleurs representées au vif ... / par ce grand philosophe Salomon Trismosin ... ; traduict d'alemand en françois, & commencé [sic] en forme de paraphrase sur chasque chapitre, par L.I. ; daua[n]tage y est adjousté de nouueau le Miroir d'alquimie de Iean de Mehvn ... traduict de latin en françois.

Aureum vellus. French

Fleur des thresors

A Paris : Chez Charles Hulpeau, Marchand Libraire, rue Dauphine, ..., M. DC. XXVII. [1627]

2 parts in 1 volume : illustrations ; 8vo (17 cm)

Signatures: (pt. 1 only) [superscript] pi A⁸ (± [superscript] piA1) A-O⁸ (O7, 8 blank).

Added engraved illustrated t.p., with imprint "A Paris : Ches Charles Sevestre ... 1613."

Ill. hand-colored and mounted; the order varies from copy to copy.

Copy 1. Issued with Le miroir d'alquimie de Iean de Mehun. A Paris : Chez Charles Sevèstre, 1613. An exact reprint of the previous ed., with the engr. t.p. and the t.p. to pt. ii unchanged. In both eds. the etchings have been pasted in and crudely coloured by hand. There are no blanks as in some copies of the 1613 ed. (e.g. Ferguson ii. 470 which is also uncoloured and Duveen 587). The engr. t.p. is coloured in the 1613 ed. only. Bound in limp parchment. Contemporary doodles on flyleaf. Signature on title page: 'Pinard De Beausoleil' (also on p. 35 of part 2). 17th century manuscript inscription on title page of part 2: 'C'est le Speculum Alcqemiae Rogery Bacsonis, Angli. ...'