Welling, Georg von (1652-1727)

Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theologicum. Vom Uhrsprung und Erzeugung des Saltzes ... Da den zugleich die Erzeugung aller Metallen und Mineralien ... Auch viel Theosophica nach Gelegenheit der Materien mituntergemischt werden. Illustrated by water-colour pen-drawings numbered 1-54, of these No. 39 is inserted, No. 52 is full-page, Nos. 53, 54 are full-page and folding. They are all carefully executed, and show magical and theosophical diagrams and figures.

mid-18th century

1 volume 6 ll. (first 5 bl.). + 228 pp. + 12 bl. ll. folio. 31 × 201/2 cm. Original stamped calf binding.

Purchased 1909.

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).