Liquor alchahest, or, A discourse of that immortal dissolvent of Paracelsus & Helmont it being one of those two wonders of art and nature, which radically dissolves all animals, vegitables, and minerals into their principles, without being in the least alter'd, either in weight or activity, after a thousand dissolutions, &c. / Published by J.A. pyrophilus.

A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing things, heate, generation, effects of the spirits, gouernment, vse and abuse of phisicke, preseruation, &c. no lesse pleasant and acceptable to the students of philosophie and phisicke, then beneficiall and necessarie for all others, desirous either of knowledge, health, youth, and long life : collected and tradused as wel forth of the best olde wryters, as out of the new, and most approued in our daies : in the ende wherof is shewed, the order and composition of a most heauenly water, for the preseruation of mans lyfe / by Iohn Iones phisicion.

Jones, John, fl. 1562-1579.

[54] p. : ill.Running title: A discourse of the naturall beginning of grovving and liuing things, &c...

Distilling Vernacular Medicine

Tillmann Taape

March 2013

By Tillmann Taape As Katherine Allen has pointed out in her post, distillation was regarded as a pow...

Introitus apertus ad artem distillationis, or, The whole art of distillation practically stated, and adorned with all the new modes of working now in use in which is contained, the way of making spirits, aquavitæ, artificial brandy, and their application to simple and complex waters in the exact pondus of the greater and lesser composition, as also many curious and profitable truths for the exalting of liquors, being the epitomy and marrow of the whole art, supplying all that is omitted in the London distiller, French and baker &c., experience being the true polisher hereof : to which is added, the true and genuin way of preparing powers by three noble menstruums, sc. a purifiedisal armoniak, the volatile salt of tartar, and Sal Panaristos, through which they are exiles to an higher degree of perfection than any hitherto extant, together with their virtues and dose : illustrated with copper sculptures / by W. Y-worth ...

Y-Worth, W. (William)

January 1692

[16], 189, [3] p.Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.Table of contents: p. [9]-[15]Advertis...

Liquor Alchahest, oder ein Discurs von dem unsterblichen Dissolvente oder der auflösenden Materie des Paracelsi und Helmontii, Welche eines ist von den beeden Wundern der Kunst und Natur/ so biß auf den Grund und Wurtzel auflöset alle Animalia, Vegetabilia und Mineralia, und selbige in ihre Principia ... entscheidet/ ohne im geringsten verändert zu werden/ ... ob es schon tausendmahl zum dissolviren oder auflösen gebraucht worden/ [et]c.

Starkey, George

January 1686

[George Stakey] In Englischer Sprach zu London am Tag gegeben durch J. A. Pyrophilus, Und nun denen ...

Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated to be the surest and safest means for arts triumph over natures infirmities being a full and free discovery of the medicinal mysteries studiously concealed by all artists, and onely discoverable by fire : with an appendix concerning the nature, preparation, and virtue of several specifick medicaments ... / by George Starkey ...

Starkey, George, 1627-1665.

January 1658

[18], 172 p.To the reader signed: Philanthropos.First ed. Cf. BM.Reproduction of original in British...

A new art of making wines, brandy, and other spirits, compliant to the late act of Parliament, concerning distillaton illustrated by the doctrine of fermentation, by various examples of the growths and products of this land : wherein is laid down full and effectual directions, for the making of wholsome and medicinal wines : as also a true and facile way to bring low wines into proof spirits, which being by true art made from sound grain, are not inferior to those of France, for which reason are several propositions stated for the encouraging a brandy manufacturage here in England : also the way is shewn to exalt these spirits so high as to bear that proof to fire gunpowder, and their various uses, especially for lacker Jappan, and Chany varnishes, and several other useful receipts, which were never so plainly publish'd before : lastly is subjoyn'd, a general treatise concerning the original and nature of diseases : together with their cure by spagirick medicines : recommended to all that desire to improve and advance those liquors which are made from the English growths / by W.Y., spagirick physician in both medicines, and philosopher by fire.

Y-Worth, W. (William)

January 1691

[50], 153, [26] p.Advertisement: p. [1]-[12] at end.Errata: p. [26] at end.Reproduction of original ...

The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.

Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Rabbards, Ralph.

January 1591

[104] p. : ill. (woodcut)In verse.Signatures: A⁴ *⁴ B-M⁴.The last leaf bears a note "To the indiffer...

A new light of alchymie : taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience : to which is added a treatise of svlphvr /

Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.
French, John, 1616-1657.
Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Paracelsi.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541. De natura rerum.

January 1650

Paging irregular.First published Prague, 1604. This English translation by John French is the first ...

L'alkahest, dissolvant universel ou quand la théorie rend pensable une pratique impossible/L 'alkahest, universal solvent or when the theory makes thinkable an impossible practice

Joly, Bernard

January 1996

SUMMARY. — Using again a term coined by Paracelsus, Van Helmont calls Alkahest the universal solvent...

The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes / composed by John French ...

French, John, 1616-1657.

January 1653

[16], 191, 64, [16] p.With separate t.p. and pagination: The London-distiller, exactly and truly she...

A New Light Of Alchymy : Taken out of the Fountain Of Nature And Manual Experience

Se̜dziwój, Michał
Paracelsus

January 1674

Einheitssacht. d. beigef. Werkes: Tractatus de sulphure . - Neudr. d. Ausg. 1650Nine Books Of the Na...

Mineralogia, or, An account of the preparation, manifold vertues and uses of a mineral salt, both in physick and chyrurgery which is so safe, pleasant and effectual in its operation, that it may be taken by those of all ages and constitutions with great benefit ... to which is added a short discourse of the nature and uses of the sulphurs of minerals and metals ... / by Chr. Packe ...

Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.

January 1693

[2], 65 p.Imperfect: print showthrough with loss of print.Reproduction of original in the Cambridge ...

Alchemy

February 2018

none1noBetween the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, alchemy reached its full maturity in the We...

Zymologia physica, or, A brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur whereby the phœnomena of all natural hot-baths, the generation of minerals, the production of many acidulæ or spaw-waters, the grand apparances [sic] of heat, fire, and light ... are solv'd from the intestine duellings and inward collisions of the foresaid principles : whereby also various other subterraneal phœnomena ... are from the same doctrine of fermentation genuinely solv'd : with an additional discourse of the sulfur-bath at Knarsbrough / by W. Simpson ...

Simpson, William, M.D.

January 1675

[16], 149, [5], 28 p.Errata: p. [15].Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library

Of the chymical transmutation, the genealogy and generation of metals & minerals : also, Of the Urim and Thummim of the Jews : with, An appendix of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge : The second part of the mumial treatise [of Tentzel] : whereunto is added, Philosophical and and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymund Lully, containing the right and due composition of both elixirs ... /

Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Tentzel, Andreas, fl. 1625.
Turner, Robert, active 1654-1665.
Trigg, Stephen.
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316. Philosophical and chymical experiments. 1657.

January 1657

Caption title, p. 1: Paracelsus, Of the transmutation of metals."Philosophical and chymical experime...

A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing things, heate, generation, effects of the spirits, gouernment, vse and abuse of phisicke, preseruation, &c. no lesse pleasant and acceptable to the students of philosophie and phisicke, then beneficiall and necessarie for all others, desirous either of knowledge, health, youth, and long life : collected and tradused as wel forth of the best olde wryters, as out of the new, and most approued in our daies : in the ende wherof is shewed, the order and composition of a most heauenly water, for the preseruation of mans lyfe / by Iohn Iones phisicion.

Jones, John, fl. 1562-1579.

[54] p. : ill.Running title: A discourse of the naturall beginning of grovving and liuing things, &c...

Distilling Vernacular Medicine

Tillmann Taape

March 2013

By Tillmann Taape As Katherine Allen has pointed out in her post, distillation was regarded as a pow...

Introitus apertus ad artem distillationis, or, The whole art of distillation practically stated, and adorned with all the new modes of working now in use in which is contained, the way of making spirits, aquavitæ, artificial brandy, and their application to simple and complex waters in the exact pondus of the greater and lesser composition, as also many curious and profitable truths for the exalting of liquors, being the epitomy and marrow of the whole art, supplying all that is omitted in the London distiller, French and baker &c., experience being the true polisher hereof : to which is added, the true and genuin way of preparing powers by three noble menstruums, sc. a purifiedisal armoniak, the volatile salt of tartar, and Sal Panaristos, through which they are exiles to an higher degree of perfection than any hitherto extant, together with their virtues and dose : illustrated with copper sculptures / by W. Y-worth ...

Y-Worth, W. (William)

January 1692

[16], 189, [3] p.Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.Table of contents: p. [9]-[15]Advertis...

Liquor Alchahest, oder ein Discurs von dem unsterblichen Dissolvente oder der auflösenden Materie des Paracelsi und Helmontii, Welche eines ist von den beeden Wundern der Kunst und Natur/ so biß auf den Grund und Wurtzel auflöset alle Animalia, Vegetabilia und Mineralia, und selbige in ihre Principia ... entscheidet/ ohne im geringsten verändert zu werden/ ... ob es schon tausendmahl zum dissolviren oder auflösen gebraucht worden/ [et]c.

Starkey, George

January 1686

[George Stakey] In Englischer Sprach zu London am Tag gegeben durch J. A. Pyrophilus, Und nun denen ...

Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated to be the surest and safest means for arts triumph over natures infirmities being a full and free discovery of the medicinal mysteries studiously concealed by all artists, and onely discoverable by fire : with an appendix concerning the nature, preparation, and virtue of several specifick medicaments ... / by George Starkey ...

Starkey, George, 1627-1665.

January 1658

[18], 172 p.To the reader signed: Philanthropos.First ed. Cf. BM.Reproduction of original in British...

A new art of making wines, brandy, and other spirits, compliant to the late act of Parliament, concerning distillaton illustrated by the doctrine of fermentation, by various examples of the growths and products of this land : wherein is laid down full and effectual directions, for the making of wholsome and medicinal wines : as also a true and facile way to bring low wines into proof spirits, which being by true art made from sound grain, are not inferior to those of France, for which reason are several propositions stated for the encouraging a brandy manufacturage here in England : also the way is shewn to exalt these spirits so high as to bear that proof to fire gunpowder, and their various uses, especially for lacker Jappan, and Chany varnishes, and several other useful receipts, which were never so plainly publish'd before : lastly is subjoyn'd, a general treatise concerning the original and nature of diseases : together with their cure by spagirick medicines : recommended to all that desire to improve and advance those liquors which are made from the English growths / by W.Y., spagirick physician in both medicines, and philosopher by fire.

Y-Worth, W. (William)

January 1691

[50], 153, [26] p.Advertisement: p. [1]-[12] at end.Errata: p. [26] at end.Reproduction of original ...

The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.

Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Rabbards, Ralph.

January 1591

[104] p. : ill. (woodcut)In verse.Signatures: A⁴ *⁴ B-M⁴.The last leaf bears a note "To the indiffer...

A new light of alchymie : taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience : to which is added a treatise of svlphvr /

Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.
French, John, 1616-1657.
Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Paracelsi.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541. De natura rerum.

January 1650

Paging irregular.First published Prague, 1604. This English translation by John French is the first ...

L'alkahest, dissolvant universel ou quand la théorie rend pensable une pratique impossible/L 'alkahest, universal solvent or when the theory makes thinkable an impossible practice

Joly, Bernard

January 1996

SUMMARY. — Using again a term coined by Paracelsus, Van Helmont calls Alkahest the universal solvent...

The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes / composed by John French ...

French, John, 1616-1657.

January 1653

[16], 191, 64, [16] p.With separate t.p. and pagination: The London-distiller, exactly and truly she...

A New Light Of Alchymy : Taken out of the Fountain Of Nature And Manual Experience

Se̜dziwój, Michał
Paracelsus

January 1674

Einheitssacht. d. beigef. Werkes: Tractatus de sulphure . - Neudr. d. Ausg. 1650Nine Books Of the Na...

Mineralogia, or, An account of the preparation, manifold vertues and uses of a mineral salt, both in physick and chyrurgery which is so safe, pleasant and effectual in its operation, that it may be taken by those of all ages and constitutions with great benefit ... to which is added a short discourse of the nature and uses of the sulphurs of minerals and metals ... / by Chr. Packe ...

Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.

January 1693

[2], 65 p.Imperfect: print showthrough with loss of print.Reproduction of original in the Cambridge ...

Alchemy

February 2018

none1noBetween the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, alchemy reached its full maturity in the We...

Zymologia physica, or, A brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur whereby the phœnomena of all natural hot-baths, the generation of minerals, the production of many acidulæ or spaw-waters, the grand apparances [sic] of heat, fire, and light ... are solv'd from the intestine duellings and inward collisions of the foresaid principles : whereby also various other subterraneal phœnomena ... are from the same doctrine of fermentation genuinely solv'd : with an additional discourse of the sulfur-bath at Knarsbrough / by W. Simpson ...

Simpson, William, M.D.

January 1675

[16], 149, [5], 28 p.Errata: p. [15].Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library

Of the chymical transmutation, the genealogy and generation of metals & minerals : also, Of the Urim and Thummim of the Jews : with, An appendix of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge : The second part of the mumial treatise [of Tentzel] : whereunto is added, Philosophical and and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymund Lully, containing the right and due composition of both elixirs ... /

Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Tentzel, Andreas, fl. 1625.
Turner, Robert, active 1654-1665.
Trigg, Stephen.
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316. Philosophical and chymical experiments. 1657.

January 1657

Caption title, p. 1: Paracelsus, Of the transmutation of metals."Philosophical and chymical experime...

A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing things, heate, generation, effects of the spirits, gouernment, vse and abuse of phisicke, preseruation, &c. no lesse pleasant and acceptable to the students of philosophie and phisicke, then beneficiall and necessarie for all others, desirous either of knowledge, health, youth, and long life : collected and tradused as wel forth of the best olde wryters, as out of the new, and most approued in our daies : in the ende wherof is shewed, the order and composition of a most heauenly water, for the preseruation of mans lyfe / by Iohn Iones phisicion.

Jones, John, fl. 1562-1579.

[54] p. : ill.Running title: A discourse of the naturall beginning of grovving and liuing things, &c...

Distilling Vernacular Medicine

Tillmann Taape

March 2013

By Tillmann Taape As Katherine Allen has pointed out in her post, distillation was regarded as a pow...

Introitus apertus ad artem distillationis, or, The whole art of distillation practically stated, and adorned with all the new modes of working now in use in which is contained, the way of making spirits, aquavitæ, artificial brandy, and their application to simple and complex waters in the exact pondus of the greater and lesser composition, as also many curious and profitable truths for the exalting of liquors, being the epitomy and marrow of the whole art, supplying all that is omitted in the London distiller, French and baker &c., experience being the true polisher hereof : to which is added, the true and genuin way of preparing powers by three noble menstruums, sc. a purifiedisal armoniak, the volatile salt of tartar, and Sal Panaristos, through which they are exiles to an higher degree of perfection than any hitherto extant, together with their virtues and dose : illustrated with copper sculptures / by W. Y-worth ...

Y-Worth, W. (William)

January 1692

[16], 189, [3] p.Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.Table of contents: p. [9]-[15]Advertis...

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