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We can classify this work among those of high hermetic philosophy. It contains a lot of useful things about metals, their dissolution, calcination and purification.
It contains admirable occult secrets and several people who have tried it assure us that the results obtained are prodigious.
It is a kind of compilation of secret recipes for making remedies, lotions, pigments, imitation of precious stones, etc., which gave rise to a new literary genre -
Girolamo Ruscelli - The Secrets Of Lord Alexis Piedmontois - SD (1657?)
Good condition of the binding, work in its period full brown leather, good condition of the covers and the spine, rubbing from use, rubbed corners, slight losses on the spine, spine with ornate raised bands, gilt title, solid binding -
Good interior condition, slight soiling and wetting, tiny verse work, missing the title page and the last of the table, pretty bands, beautiful initials, tailpieces -
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