Recueil de divers secrets concernans la Médecine universelle et la transmutation des métaux

Title within red and black pen-drawn rules. On the verso of the first leaf is a pen-drawing of an alchemical vessel. Pp. 1-15; 127-249. Miscellaneous alchemical receipts and processes. 16-126. Basilius Valentinus. La Pierre de feu Basil Valentin, reconnue pour Médecine Universelle... avec toutes les préparations pour la faire, prises du même Auteur et de son Commentateur au Char de triomphe de l'Antimoine (i.e. Theodor Kercking [ -1693]). An anonymous owner has written inside the upper cover: 'Vile livre je ne comprend rien'.

c.1750

1 volume 249 pp. 8vo. 161/2 × 111/2 cm. Original calf binding damaged.

Purchased 1936.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).