Bibliotheca Chemica

Johannes de Rupescissa, liber Magistri de confectione veri Lapidis Philoso-phorum in Joannes Jacobus Mangetus, Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, 2 vols. (Geneva Chevet et al., 1702), 80-84. 

It was included in Cardilucius, Magnalia medico-chymica, Numberg, 1676, in the Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplification, Frankfurt, 1678, and in Manget s compendium Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, 1702. [Transcribed by Jerry Bujas.]"... 

Ferguson, John.Bibliotheca chemica. Volume I foreword by F. Sherwood Taylor. Glasgow Maclehose, 1906 reprint, London Holland Press, 1954. [2], xxi, 487p. 

Ferguson, John. Bibliotheca chemica a catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris. .. By John Ferguson. .. [http //visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur Destination=Gallica Q=NUMM-904341. 1906. 

John Ferguson Bibliotheca Chemica A Catalogue of the Alchemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the Late James Young (Glasgow Maclehose, 1906, and several later editions through the 1950s). 

Ferguson, John. 1906. Bibliotheca Chemica A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutics. 2 vols. London Derek Verschoyle, 1954. 

Alchemiae Oebri, etc. Bern, 1545, pp. 223-227. There has been much doubt as to the identity and date of this Richard, but the strong probability is that he died in 1252. Cf. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, II. 

Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, I, p. 329, for reasons for 1670 as against usually cited date of 1668. 

Sammlung unterschiedlicher bewahrter chymischer schriften, Wien, 1773. (Manifestly the same as the 1746 ed., but with a new t.-p. Cf. Ferguson, Bibliotheca chemica, Vol. I.)... 

I have preferred to omit any annotation for the many old alchemical books to which Ayton referred in his letters to Gardner. In any case there was often more than one edition and Ayton hardly ever provided dates for the copies in his possession. For detailed biographical and bibliographical information the reader is referred to John Ferguson, Bibliotheca chemica (Glasgow, 1906) and [Denis I. Duveen], Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica (London, 1949). However, I have included footnote references to contemporary publications, personalities and events, and have indicated the location of the very few letters that were not in Gerald Yorke s collection. All the letters are to Gardner unless otherwise indicated. 

Edition consulted Jo. Jacob Manget, Bibliotheca chemica cuiiosa (Geneva, 1702), vol. I, p.509 facsimile ed., Sala Bolognese A. Forni, 1976. The title of this alchemical text is Liber de compositione Alchemiae, quern edidit Moiienus (pp.509-519). 

Plate 22. Daniel Stolzius von Stolzenberg, Hoitulus Hermeticus Flosculis Philosophorum Cupro Incisis Conformatus. . from Manget s Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, Geneva, 1702, vol. II, p.896. These medallions appeared first in 1618, in the third treatise of Johann Daniel Mylius s Opus medico-chymicum. By permission of Thames Hudson, Ltd. 

Ferguson, John. Bibliotheca chemica, 2 vols. (Glasgow James Maclehose, 1906 reprinted, Hildesheim Olms, 1974). 

Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Derek Verschoyle, London, 1954, pp. 15-17. 

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