[REIBEHAND] Le Filet d'Ariadne, 1695
[REIBEHAND, Christophe].
Le Filet d'Ariadne : pour entrer avec seureté dans le labyrinthe de la philosophie hermétique.
Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1695.
12mo (156x84 mm), (8)-176-(32) pages. binding : Contemporary full sheep, gilt spine in six compartments. Head and tail compartments worn. Handwritten notes in margins, underlined text with pencil or ink.
First edition in french.
Unusual work of alchemy of which bibliographers do not agree on the identity of the author.
For some [Dorbon, Caillet, Lenglet Dufresnoy] it is the German author Christophe Reibehand whose work was originally published in Latin in 1636.
For others [Brunet, Duveen, Ferguson] it is Gaston Le Doux (or Duclos or Claves).
Some figures on wood in the text illustrate the equipment of an alchemical laboratory.
If no bibliographer mentions the presence of a plate, certain rare copies have a folding table classically giving the correspondence between the alchemical symbols and the compounds used. This board is missing here.
references: Dorbon [4015] Duveen [217 : "The book is in the nature of a labotary manual and contains no clue as to the real identity of the author"] Caillet [III, 9238 : " Petit traité peu commun"].
Price : 2000 €