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Arthur Dee: Fasciculus Chemicus.
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Arthur Dee (1579-1651) was the eldest son of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee. asciculus Chemicus or Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science out of the choicest and most famous authors is an anthology of alchemical writings compiled by Arthur Dee (1579–1651) in 1629 while resident in Moscow as chief physician to Czar Michael I of Russia. Fasciculus Chemicus was revised by Dee sometime between 1631 and 1633 and translated from Latin into English by Elias Ashmole in 1650 under the anagrammatic pseudonym of "James Hasolle."
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning. filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Near Fine. Near fine, light shelfwear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. 115pp. Gray paper/cloth boards. Former owner library stamp. Lacking dj. Annotations on tp. Item #13495
Price: $250.00