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The philosophical epitaph of W. C., esquire, for a memento mori on his tomb-stone ..

Also known as The philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire, for a memento mori on his tomb-stone ... Also, A brief of the golden calf (the worlds idol)

by William Cooper, Johann Friedrich Helvetius & Johann Rudolf Glauber

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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In contrast to the 1673 ed., the present ed. includes a 2nd and 3rd pt. to the Catalogue of chymical books, together with an errata list for the 1st pt. (p. [14], last sequence of pagination) and a general t.p. for all 3 pts. The imprint on this general t.p. reads: Collected by Will. Cooper, Bookseller ... London, Printed in the year 1675. See BM Added engraved t.p. with 10 roundels containing symbols. Plates are chiefly textual, with a few symbolic images included In Library's copy a 2nd impression of the plate before I7 serves as frontispiece Each work has special t.p. and separate paging A brief of the golden calf... and The golden ass well managed ... both translated from the Latin and shortened by W.C. (William Cooper) Hogart, R. Alchemy Wing BM

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the description and “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Alchemy”· via Open Library
    • “Alchemy”· in description
    • “Alchemy”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 5 editions; 2 cataloged here.

The philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire, for a memento mori on his tomb-stone ... Also, A brief of the golden calf (the worlds idol)

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1675-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Printed by T.R. and N.T. for William Cooper ...English—Public digitized item

The philosophical epitaph of W. C[ooper] ... Also, A brief of the golden calf ...

1673T.R. & N.T. for W. CooperEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; gettyalchemy
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
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