MYNSICHT, Adrian von. Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum. 1670.
MYNSICHT, Adrian von.
Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum.
Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.
8vo (170x105 mm), (40)-490-(66) pages. binding : twentieth-century full overlapping vellum. Very good condition. Some foxings.
Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) is a German physician and alchemist. In his Thesaurus, he gives us his best recipes of ointments, emplatres, liqueurs for medicine. As always at this time, chemistry, alchemy and pharmacopoeia are closely intertwined.
In the Testamentum Hadrianeum following the Thesaurus, we are given in a versified form the secret of the philosopher's stone of Mynsicht.
Rare edition not spotted by Ferguson, nor Caillet.
references: Dorbon [3319 (ed. 1697) : "Ouvrage d'alchimie très rare"].
Price : 600 €