LULL, Ramón (c. 1232-1315). Libelli aliquot Chemici. Edited by Michel Toxites. Basel: Peter Perna, 1572.
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LULL, Ramón (c. 1232-1315). Libelli aliquot Chemici. Edited by Michel Toxites. Basel: Peter Perna, 1572.

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LULL, Ramón (c. 1232-1315). Libelli aliquot Chemici. Edited by Michel Toxites. Basel: Peter Perna, 1572.

8º (164 x 95mm). Woodcut of the ‘arbor operationis’ on m8v, woodcut initials. (Title with erased inscription, spotting, a few quires heavily browned, o8 with yellow stain at margin, waterstaining towards end strongly affecting final leaf.) Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (crinkled, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Pauli Cagnaconi, bought at Pisa, June 1573 (inscription on front blank; frequent marginalia in [?]his and another hand).

FIRST EDITION of this collection attributed to Lull, reprinted in 1600. It includes an early treatise on pearls and precious stones. The editor was a physician from Strasbourg who dedicated the work not to a great patron but three of his fellow students from Bunzlau in Silesia. Adams L-1707; BL/STC German Books p.533; Duveen p.370; Ferguson II, p. 54; Honeyman 2066; NLM/Durling 2871.
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