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The Hermetical triumph: or, the victorious philosophical stone. A treatise ... concerning the Hermetical magistery / Translated from the French[of A.T. Limojon de Saint-Didier]. To which is added, the ancient war of the knights. Translated from the German original. As also, some annotations upon the most material points, where the two translations differ. Done from a German edition.

Limojon de Saint-Didier · 1723 · London : P. Hanet, 1723. · 17 pictures

A 1723 London printing by P. Hanet of an alchemy treatise, translated from the French of Limojon de Saint-Didier with a German war narrative, aimed at readers of hermetic philosophy. The pictures are small printer's ornaments: floral urns and vases, a classical column flanked by putti, and a repeating strapwork border with arabesques, all crisp black woodcut on cream paper, useful to a designer for compact botanical or decorative vignettes and for border and headpiece patterns.

Alchemy

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