Hortulus hermeticus flosculis philosophorum cupro incisis conformatus, et breuissimis versiculis explicatus. Quo chymiatriae studiosi pro philotheca vti, fessique laboratorium ministri recreari possint / authore M. Daniele Stolcio.

Hortulus hermeticus. Latin

Francofurti : Impensis Lucae Jennisii, 1627.

165 pages : engr. plates, illustrations (engravings) ; (8vo)

Title vignette; head-pieces, initials

"The first eight pages are printed as usual, then on p. 9, and every fourth page thereafter, there is a steel engraving containing four small emblematic pictures with a motto and an alchemist's name. Below the engraving are printed the mottos. Pp. 10-11, 14-15, 18-19, and so on to the end, are blank. Pp. 8, 12, and every fourth page thereafter, have two couplets on each of the symbols on the following page"--Ferguson

Copy 1 Note: In this interleaved copy there is a MS. German verse translation in an 18th cent. hand of the two couplets on each of the symbols which are printed on p. 8, 12, and every fourth page thereafter.

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica p. 566

Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica II, p. 410-411

Landwehr, J. German emblem books 561