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Ars et Theoria transmutationis metallicae cum Voarchadumia, proportionibus, numeris, — Voarchadumia contra alchimiam. Ars distincta ab archimia, & sophia: cum additionibus, proportionibus. Paris: V. Gaultherot, 1550.
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PANTHEUS, Johannes Antonius (d.1535)
Ars et Theoria transmutationis metallicae cum Voarchadumia, proportionibus, numeris, — Voarchadumia contra alchimiam. Ars distincta ab archimia, & sophia: cum additionibus, proportionibus. Paris: V. Gaultherot, 1550.
Two finely printed and illustrated alchemical and metallurgical works by Pantheus an Italian priest and alchemist. 'Pantheus wrote against spurious alchemy and he deals partly with the assay of gold, which is illustrated with drawings of rolling mills, furnaces of various sorts with the accompanying apparatus and a balance of weights, and partly with the chemical preparation of various substances which were made at Venice in his time and were used in the arts. He describes, for example, the manufacture of white lead and of an alloy for mirrors... Pantheus was a priest at Venice, but seems nevertheless to have been devoted to chemical research’ (Ferguson). Caillet 8274; Duveen p. 450; Ferchl p. 393; Ferguson 2:166-7; Thorndike 5:537-9; Adams P-184.
2 works in one volume, octavo (167 x 101mm). Woodcut world map on first title, woodcut criblé initials, 14 woodcut illustrations, mostly full-page, Hebrew and angelic-Enochian alphabets (lower corner of title with old large repair, occasional light spotting and soiling, lower corner of first work with very small stain, a few leaves cropped close with the loss of some letters in side notes affecting 2 leaves and just touching diagram on A7r). Early vellum (recased with new endpapers, head of spine sometime repaired, remains of ties, lower portion of spine starting to split, covers a little soiled). Provenance: armorial blindstamp in margin of title.
Ars et Theoria transmutationis metallicae cum Voarchadumia, proportionibus, numeris, — Voarchadumia contra alchimiam. Ars distincta ab archimia, & sophia: cum additionibus, proportionibus. Paris: V. Gaultherot, 1550.
Two finely printed and illustrated alchemical and metallurgical works by Pantheus an Italian priest and alchemist. 'Pantheus wrote against spurious alchemy and he deals partly with the assay of gold, which is illustrated with drawings of rolling mills, furnaces of various sorts with the accompanying apparatus and a balance of weights, and partly with the chemical preparation of various substances which were made at Venice in his time and were used in the arts. He describes, for example, the manufacture of white lead and of an alloy for mirrors... Pantheus was a priest at Venice, but seems nevertheless to have been devoted to chemical research’ (Ferguson). Caillet 8274; Duveen p. 450; Ferchl p. 393; Ferguson 2:166-7; Thorndike 5:537-9; Adams P-184.
2 works in one volume, octavo (167 x 101mm). Woodcut world map on first title, woodcut criblé initials, 14 woodcut illustrations, mostly full-page, Hebrew and angelic-Enochian alphabets (lower corner of title with old large repair, occasional light spotting and soiling, lower corner of first work with very small stain, a few leaves cropped close with the loss of some letters in side notes affecting 2 leaves and just touching diagram on A7r). Early vellum (recased with new endpapers, head of spine sometime repaired, remains of ties, lower portion of spine starting to split, covers a little soiled). Provenance: armorial blindstamp in margin of title.
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