Alchemical works translated from Latin

Holograph MSS. of translations from Latin of six short alchemical works. Contents: (1) Bacon (R.). Lettre ... sur les oeuvres secrètes de l'art et de la nature et sur la nullité de la Magie. Paris. An III [1887] [25 ll. (last bl.)]. (2) Albertus Magnus, St. Le composé des composés [12 ll.]. (3) Bacon (R.). Petit traité d'alchimie ... intitulé Miroir d'alchimie [6 ll.]. (4) Paracelsus (A. P. T.). Le trésor des trésors alchimiques [6 ll.]. (5) Philaletha (E.). Traité de la transmutation des métaux [Unfinished] 1887 [4 ll. (last bl.)]. (6) pseudo-Thomas Aquinas, St. Traité de la Pierre Philosophale et des corps supracélestes [Unifinished] [2 ll.]. Produced in Paris.

1887

1 volume 55 ll. 4to. 20 × 151/2 cm., 23 × 18 cm. Unbound. The first and fifth work have title-pages in coloured inks.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 452 (part).

In Nos. 1 and 5 Poisson writes under the pseudonym 'Philophotos'.

From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris, with his press-mark label 'L.H. 131'.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).