HOLLANDUS: DE LAPIDE PHILOSOPHORUM * C.2010 HAND-BOUND HC * ALCHEMY OCCULT

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JOHANN ISAAC HOLLANDUS.
DE LAPIDE PHILOSOPHORUM.
Calgary AB: Octavia & Co. Press.
FIRST EDITION THUS.
No date. c. 2010.
167 pages. Octavo (8 by 5 1/2 inch) hardcover, red buckram cloth boards, tan cloth spine, marbled endpapers, gilt design front, titling to spine.
Hand-bound in
NEW CONDITION
.
In DE LAPIDE PHILOSOPHORUM (ON THE PHILOSOPHERS’ STONE) the late-medieval, early-renaissance Alchemist Hollandus revealed precise knowledge of chemical processes and procedures toward the alleged production of the Opus Magum of Alchemy.
This edition contains an unattributed English translation of this his key work on the subject, nicely hand-bound in red cloth boards.
CONTENTS:
PROLOGUE.
• HERE BEGINS THE WORK OF THE ANCIENTS WITH PERFECT INSTRUCTION, WITH NOTHING BEING OMITTED FROM THIS.
• NOW WE WILL PROCEED FURTHER WITH OUR WORK.
• NOW, HEAR MY SONS, THE GREATEST SECRET –.
• ANOTHER WORK OF THE OLD MASTERS.
• OBSERVE NOW HOW THE ANCIENTS FOUND SUCH TERMS IN THE WORK.
• MULTIPLICATIONS OF THE STONE.
• THE OTHER WORKS OF THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS: OLEA EX AQUIS FORTIBUS ET METALLIS.
• THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE STONE AND ITS SUBSEQUENT PROJECTION.
• THE RED AND WHITE STONES.
• A RIGHT AND PERFECT MEDICINE OF THE OTHER ORDER.
• AD RUBEUM.
• THE SALTS OF THE METALS.
• NOW WE WILL RETURN TO THE WORK OF THE SALTS.
• HOW TO MULTIPLY THE PHILOSOPHICAL OIL.
• PURIFICATION AND SEPARATION OF THE METALS FROM THEIR FACES.
• THE FIXATION OF LUNA.
• CLARIFICATION OF LUNA.
• MIXING.
• EXTRACTION OF LIVE MERCURY FROM BODIES.
• MULTIPLICATION OF THE WHITE.
• PURIFICATION OF THE STONE.
• MULTIPLICATION TO THE RED.
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