[WALCHIN, Dorothea Juliana] Schlssel zu dem Cabinet der geheimen Schatz-Kammer der Natur, Leipzig: Johann Heinichs Witwe, 1706, small 8°, FIRST EDITION (stain to B2-3, occasional underlining in red crayon, lower corner lightly dampstained, spotted throughout) [Ferguson II, p. 525] [bound with:] [Dorothea Juliana WALCHIN] Das mineralische Gluten/doppelter Schlangen-Stab/Mercurius Philosophorum, langer und kurzer Weg zur Universal-Tinctur, Leipzig: Johann Heinichens Wittwe, 1705, small 8°, FIRST EDITION, one folding woodcut illustration, with errata at end (occasional underlining in red crayon, spotted throughout) [Blake p. 479; Ferguson II, p. 525], two works in one volume, 20th-century half vellum.

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[WALCHIN, Dorothea Juliana] Schlssel zu dem Cabinet der geheimen Schatz-Kammer der Natur, Leipzig: Johann Heinichs Witwe, 1706, small 8°, FIRST EDITION (stain to B²^-³, occasional underlining in red crayon, lower corner lightly dampstained, spotted throughout) [Ferguson II, p. 525] [bound with:] [Dorothea Juliana WALCHIN] Das mineralische Gluten/doppelter Schlangen-Stab/Mercurius Philosophorum, langer und kurzer Weg zur Universal-Tinctur, Leipzig: Johann Heinichens Wittwe, 1705, small 8°, FIRST EDITION, one folding woodcut illustration, with errata at end (occasional underlining in red crayon, spotted throughout) [Blake p. 479; Ferguson II, p. 525], two works in one volume, 20th-century half vellum.

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Duveen (who only lists the 1722 edition of both works) describes it as "one of the very few alchemical books written by a woman adept".

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