Joh. Michaelis Faustij ... Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz
Subtitle: mit welchem die alten und neuen Philosophi, die unvollkommene Metall, durch Gewalt des Feuers verbessert, und allerhand schädliche und unheylsame Kranckheiten innerlich und äusserlich, durch deren Würckung vertrieben haben : dieser Edition wird annoch, nebst vielen Kupffern und über 800 Philosophischen Anmerckungen, ein volkom̃enes Lexicon alchymisticum novum, und ein vollständiges Register rerum & verborum, beygefüget
Contributors: Reusner, Hieronymus, b. 1558; Marchand, Johann Christian, 1680-1711
Publisher: Verlegts Johann Zieger
Published: 1706
Place of publication: Franckfurt und Leipzig
Language: ger; lat
Number of pages: 1071
Other titles: Compendium alchymist. novum; Compendium alchymisticum novum; Pandora explicata et figuris illustrata; Edelste Gabe Gottes; Güldener Schatz
Notes: Brief extracts in Latin from writers on alchemy, with commentary in German. Based on Reusner's Pandora of 1582. See Hogart.

T.p. across 2 pages, tipped in at center fold; printed in red and black.

Frontispiece extends across 2 pages, tipped in at center fold. It is signed: L.C. Marchand fecit in Nürnberg. Nineteen engravings, bound between p. 1008 and [1021], have alchemical symbolism. Most are followed by a leaf in letterpress that gives on the recto Reusner's explanation of the symbolism, keyed to letters on the engraving, and on the verso that of Faustius. There are also in-text woodcut ill.

Hogart, R.  Alchemy, 61

Frontispiece and engravings of Library's copy are hand colored with watercolors including gold and silver. Eleven woodcuts (as well as 2 tailpieces) between p. 241 and 362 are also hand colored.