![MAIER, Michael (?1568-1622). Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum, Frankfurt: Johann Philipp Andreus for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1687. Small 4° (199 x 154mm.), half title, 50 engraved illustrations (lacking the final blank, most lower margins lightly waterstained, a few with very neat repairs, some light spotting). A reduced edition of Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617) without the musical scores and German verses, the plates showing allegorical and symbolical pictures of chemical processes. DSB notes that his writings "were highly valued and popular among alchemists ... Maier was a fervent believer in the transmutation of metals, which was for him a synonym of the word 'chymia.'" Ferguson II, 64; Krivatsy 7277; Landwehr German 412; Praz p. 102; Wellcome IV, p. 29. [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09280_0008_000(040020).jpg?w=1)
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MAIER, Michael (?1568-1622). Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum, Frankfurt: Johann Philipp Andreus for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1687. Small 4° (199 x 154mm.), half title, 50 engraved illustrations (lacking the final blank, most lower margins lightly waterstained, a few with very neat repairs, some light spotting). A reduced edition of Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617) without the musical scores and German verses, the plates showing allegorical and symbolical pictures of chemical processes. DSB notes that his writings "were highly valued and popular among alchemists ... Maier was a fervent believer in the transmutation of metals, which was for him a synonym of the word 'chymia.'" Ferguson II, 64; Krivatsy 7277; Landwehr German 412; Praz p. 102; Wellcome IV, p. 29. [Bound with:]
BORIA, Johannes de. Emblemata moralia, scripta quondam hispanice, translated by L. Camerarius, Berlin: Johann Michael Rudiger, 1697. Small 4° (199 x 154mm.), engraved title vignette, 100 engraved circular emblems by J.C. Schott (title very slightly soiled, occasional marginal spotting). Latin edition of the rare Spanish emblem book Empresas Morales, first published in 1581. Lanwehr German 137; Praz p. 26.
2 works in one volume, 19th-century calf gilt, double fillet on sides, gilt spine compartments with floral motifs and morocco lettering-pieces, gilt inner fillets, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed).
BORIA, Johannes de. Emblemata moralia, scripta quondam hispanice, translated by L. Camerarius, Berlin: Johann Michael Rudiger, 1697. Small 4° (199 x 154mm.), engraved title vignette, 100 engraved circular emblems by J.C. Schott (title very slightly soiled, occasional marginal spotting). Latin edition of the rare Spanish emblem book Empresas Morales, first published in 1581. Lanwehr German 137; Praz p. 26.
2 works in one volume, 19th-century calf gilt, double fillet on sides, gilt spine compartments with floral motifs and morocco lettering-pieces, gilt inner fillets, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed).
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