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containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

by Elias Ashmole, Thomas Cross, John Goddard & Robert Vaughan

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  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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No more published T.p. printed in red and black; vignette Contents (p. [1], final sequence of pagination) comprises 31 entries, including: Ordinall of alchemie / Thomas Norton. Compound of alchemie / George Ripley. Chanon's yeoman's tale / Geoffry Chaucer. Sir Edward Kelley's Worke. Doctor John Dee's Testament. Secreta secretorum / Iohn Lydgate Most of the 11 engraved ill. by Robert Vaughan are within borders decorated with birds, insects, small animals and flowers. Some are signed in the plate. Woodcut tailpiece (two-headed dragon with sun and moon) appears on p. 212 and 379. Folded plate is engraved diagram, with title: Here followeth the figure conteyning all the secrets of the treatise both great & small. It is signed in the plate: John Goddard sculpsit. Engraved ill. on p. [437] signed in the plate: T. Cross sculp. Engraved horoscope of Edward Kelley, p. 479. Tailpieces, decorated initials, fleurons Frontispiece of Library's copy is engraved port. of Ashmole, with legend: Pub. by WRichardson June 1, 1797 York House, 31 Strand. Remargined at top and foredge Includes errata, p. [8] and [9] at end Hogart, R. Alchemy Wing

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Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • 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.

    • “Alchemy”· via Internet Archive
    • “Alchemy”· via Open Library
    • “Alchemy”· in description
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
  • Astrology

    Retained metadata contains “horoscope” in the description.

    • “horoscope”· in description

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containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

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1652London : Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke ...; Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke ...English—Public

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  • 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 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL15373581W
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