Reconditorium ac reclusorium opulentiae sapientiaeque numinis mundi magni, cui deditur in titulum Chymica vannus, obtenta quidem & erecta auspice mortale coepto
Subtitle: sed inventa proauthoribus immortalibus adeptis, quibus conclusum est, sancitum & decretum, ut anno hoc per mysteriarcham Mercurium, Velut Viocurium, seu Medicurium, statVta oraCVLa sVa eXorDIne InoLesCerent, & aVrea VerItas perspICa CIorIbVs IngenIIs nVDe breVIterqVe InnotesCeret [=] orbe post Christum natum millesimo, sexcentesimo, sexagesimo sexto, idibus majis.
Contributors: Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903, former owner.
Publisher: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & Elizeum Weyerstraet
Published: 1666
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Chymica vannus; Commentatio de pharmaco catholico.
Notes: LC copy has heraldic bookplates of Henry Carrington Bolton; gift of Mrs. H.C. Bolton 1912. Lacks final blank leaf.
LC copy 2 has armorial bookplate with legend: Vassali Bichi; inscription on recto of front free endpaper: Di Gioanni Evangelista Bichi 1766; formerly part of the YA collection. Eight leaves of engraved portrait medallions and emblems laid in.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3A⁴.
Twelve full page engraved illustrations, the one captioned: Character adeptorum in cruce sub sphaera venit sapientia vera printed in red as frontispiece of the first section, repeated in black at the front of the second section of pagination.
Commentatio de Pharmaco catholico, p. 1-76 at end, has special, very long half title and separate pagination. Errata: p. [77] at end.