The hermetic museum, restored and enlarged
Subtitle: most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone may be found and held
By: now first done into English from the Latin original published at Frankfort in the year 1678 ; containing twenty-two most celebrated chemical tracts
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: James Elliott and Co.
Published: 1893
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Subjects: Alchemy; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum. English
Notes: "Preface to the English edition" (v. 1, p. ix-xi) signed: Arthur Edward Waite.

"Edition limited to 250 numbered copies ...": vol. 1, prelim.

LC copy is no. 17.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  I. The golden tract ... / by an anonymous German adept .  II. The golden age restored ... / by Henry Madathanas.  III. The sophic hydrolith ...  IV. A demonstration of nature ... / set forth by John A. Mehung.  V. A short tract ... / by Nicholas Flamell. VI. The only true way ... VII. The glory of the world ... VIII. A tract of great price / published by a German sage ... IX. A very brief tract concerning the philosophical stone / written by an unknown German sage ... X. The book of Lambspring ... / by Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas.  XI. The golden tripod ...; title: v. 2. I. The chemical treatise of Thomas Norton ... II. The testament of Cremer ... III. The new chemical light ... / by Michael Sendivogius. IV. The new chemical light, second part ...  V. An open entrance to the closed palace of the king / by an anonymous sage ... (i.e. Erenæus Philalethes).   VI. A subtle allegory concerning the secrets of alchemy ... / by Michael Maier.  VII. The three treatises of Philalethes: I. The metamorphosis of metals.  VIII.  The three treatises ...: II.  A short vade mecum ... IX.  The three treatises ...: III. The fount of chemical truth.  X. John Frederick Helvetius' Golden calf ... XI. The all-wise doorkeeper ...