The hermetical triumph, or, The victorious philosophical stone

The French translation of The ancient war of the knights, as well as the authorship of A dialogue between Eudoxus and Pyrophilus and of A letter to the true disciples of Hermes, are attributed to Saint-Didier; see Hogart, BM. All three are here translated into English from Le triomphe hermétique (Amsterdam : H. Wetstein, 1689 and 1699). Uralter Ritter-Krieg, the German original of the Ancient war of the knights, appeared at Leipzig, 1604 Conjectural publication date from English STC; Thomas Harris was in business 1741-1745 Includes engraved allegorical frontispiece, the interpretation of which is given on p. [1]-[2] (following p. xxvi) Errata, p. [40] at end The ancient war of the knights, or, A discourse between the Stone of the Philosophers, and Gold, and Mercury ... / composed originally in the German tongue by a very able philosopher, and newly translated from the Latin into French, now from the French render'd into English -- A discourse between Eudoxus and Pyrophilus upon the Ancient war of the knights -- A letter to the true disciples of Hermes, containing six principal keys of the secret philosophy / [the name of the author in Latin is in this anagram: Dives sicut ardens S***] -- The antient war of the knights, being a short alchymistical dialogue betwixt our Stone, Gold and Mercury ... translated from the German original -- Annotations upon the most material passages, where the French translation of The ancient war of the knights, differs from the German original : from a German edition Hogart, R. Alchemy BM ESTC (RLIN)