page_title: Library of Sir Thomas Browne
section_title: Esoteric
hierarchical_section_title: Library of Sir Thomas Browne / Esoteric
caption_attribution_description: English: Page 1 of "Theatrum Chemicum", Volume I, printed 1659 in Straßburg, Germany (today France) by Lazarus Zetzner (Zetznerni, Zetznerus)
context_page_description: The 1711 Sales Auction Catalogue of the Library of Sir Thomas Browne highlights the erudition of the physician, philosopher and encyclopedist, Sir Thomas Browne. It also illustrates the proliferation, distribution and availability of books printed throughout 17th century Europe which were purchased by the intelligentsia, aristocracy, priestly, physician or educated merchant-class.
context_section_description: Elias Ashmole ed., Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 1652 
  J.J. Becher  Physica subterranea  Frankfurt 1669
  Guido Bonatti de Astronomica Tract 1550
  Tommaso Campanella, 7 Astrological books, Frankfurt 1630
  Jerome Cardan Opera omnia 10 vols. Leiden 1663
  Arthur Dee, Fasciculus Chemicus
  Marsilio Ficino, Theologia Platonica de Immortalitate Animorum, Paris 1559
  Jacques Gaffarel, Unheard-of Curiosities, Paris 1650
  Francesco Giorgi,  De harmonia mundi, Venice 1525
  Johann Glauber, de natura Salium, Amsterdam 1658
  Lucas Gauricus, super Dieb. Decretoriis sive Criticis Axiomata Rome 1546
  Helvetius, Miraculo transmutandi Metallica, Antwerp 1667 
  Athanasius Kircher, Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae, Rome 1646
  Obeliscus Pamphilius, Rome 1650
  Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Rome 1652
  Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica, Rome 1654
  Mundus Subterraneus, 2 Vols. Amsterdam 1665
  Heinrich Khunrath Medulla Distillatoria & Medica. Hamburg 1638
  Raymund Lull, Vademecum, quo sontes Alchemica Art, 1572 
  Pierio Valeriano Bolzani Hieroglyphica sive de sacris Aegyptiorum litteris 1631
  Pico della Mirandola Cabalistarum Selectiora Obscurioraque Dogmata, Venice 1569
  Jean-Baptiste Morin Astrologica Gallica  1661
  Paracelsus, Opera Medico-Chimica, Frankfurt 1603
  Petrae, Nosologia Harmonica Dogmatica et Hermetica, 1615
  Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magic, 1644
  Villa, 12 Books Frankfurt 1592
  Phytognomica, Naples 1588
  Coelestis Physiogranonia, Naples 1603
  de Miracoli & Maravigliosi Effetti dalla Natura prodotti, Venice 1665
  William Ramsay, Judicial Astrology vindicated 1651
  Henry Ranzovus, Astrologia Scientiae Certitudo, 1585
  Martin Ruland, Dictionary of alchemy, 1612
  Sendivogius, The true secret Philosophy, Castille 1651
  Oswald Schreckenfuchs Commentaries on George Peurbach Basle 1569
  Theatrum Chemicum, 5 vols inc. vol. 1 Gerhard Dorn Strasbourg 1613
  Johannes Trithemius, Polygraphiae Libri 6., Cologne 1571
  Basil Valentine, Currus Triumphalis, with fig., Amsterdam 1671
  Thomas Vaughan, A Hermeticall Banquet drest by a Spagyrical Cook, 1652
  Blaise de Vigenère, Tract du Feu & du Sel, Rouen 1642
  Vossius, De Idolatria (1642)
  Johann Weyer, Opera, Amsterdam 1660
caption: Page One of Theatrum Chemicum Vol. I (1602)
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