AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Alchemy.

Nicholas Flamel.

Nicholas Flammel his Exposition of the hieroglyphical figures which he caused to be painted upon an arch in St. Innocents church yard in Paris: concerning both the theory and practice of the philosophers stone. Faithfully and religiously done into English out of the French copy, by Eirenaeus Orandus, quiest, Vera veris enodanus. Printed at London by T. S. for Thomas Walsley, at the Eagle and Child in Britans Bursse. 1624. —An 1890 reprint.

Le Grand esclairsissement de la pierre pjilosophale pour la transmutation de tous les Metaux. Par N. Flamel. A Paris, chez Louys Vendosmes, 1628.

Testament of Nicholas Flamel. London: Printed by J. and E. Hodson, and sold only by the editor. 1806.

Fasciculus chemicus: or, Chymical collections. Expressing the ingress, progress, and egress of the secret Hermetick science, out of the choisest and most famous authors. Collected and digested in such an order, that it may prove to the advantage, not onely of the Beginners, but Proficients of this high Art, by none hitherto disposed in this Method. Whereunto is added, the Arcanum, or, Grand secret of hermetick philosophy. Both made English by James Hasolle [Elias Ashmole], Esquire, Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. London, printed by J. Flesher for Richard Mynne, at the sign of St. Paul in Little Britain, 1650.

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one Volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. London: Printed by J.Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill. 1652. —As a specimen-book of English doggerel this is fascinating; we make no pronouncements on its scientific value.
Another copy.

The Way to Bliss. In three books. Made Publick, by Elias Ashmole Esq., Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. London: Printed by John Grismond for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1658.

A New Light of Alchymy Taken out of the Fountain of Nature and Manual Experience. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur, written by Micheel Sandivogius: i. e. Anagrammatically, DIVI LESCHI GENUS AMO. Also nine books Of the Nature of Things, written by Paracelsus. Also a Chymical Dictionary. All of which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J. F., M. D. London: Printed by A. Clark, for Tho. Williams at the Golden Ball in Hosier-Lane, 1674.

Collectanea Chymica: a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry: concerning the liquor alkahest, the Mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal. Written by Eir. Philaletha, Anonymus, Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont. Dr. Fr. Antonie, Bernhard Earl of Trevisan, Sir Geo. Ripley, Rog. Bacon, Geo. Starkey, Sir Hugh Platt, and the Tomb of Semiramis, see more in the Contents. London: Printed for William Cooper, 1684.