De circulo physico, quadrato: hoc est, Auro, eiusque virtute medicinali [...].

Oppenheim, H. Galler; [Frankfurt (M.)], L. Jennis, 1616

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Lot description

4to: 79 pp. (light dampst. in quire E and F, marg. ann. in old hand on f. I3).

Mod. Bradel paper, blue edges (paper on spine loosening, corners bumped).

Very rare, original edition of a lesser known work by the German alchemist, physician, and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg, M. Maier (1569-1622), in which he explains the healing properties of gold. Dedicated to Maurice the Learned, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572-1632).
Ref. VD17 23:636250Z. - Caillet 6992. - Not in Duveen, Ferguson.