CROLLIUS, Oswald (ca. 1560-1609) Basilica Chymica... aucta a Joa Hartmanno. - Genève, Chouët, 1635
3 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemp.vellum. Several woodcuts of alchemical symbols. Together 832 pp. (incl. 4 blank). The first part and the dedication by Hartmann Jr. are bound at the end.
Important edition of a work which was much appreciated and often reprinted (first edition:1509). Crollius, a convinced adherent of Paracelsus, whose doctrines he discusses in the preface, deals with pharmacology, therapeutics and alchemical symbols. This is the first edition to contain the substantial annotations by Johannes Hartmann (1568-1631), a friend of Crollius who held the first established chair of Chemistry in Europe, at Marburg. «The Basilica chymica became the standard scientific work on iatrochemistry » (DSB III, 471). Duveen 151. Ferguson I, 187. Wellcome I, 1675. Cf. Caillet I, 404, and Verginelli-Rota, Bibl. Hermetica, 79-80: «... opera meritamente molto famosa nella storia dell'Alchimia...».
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