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[REIBEHAND] Le Filet d'Ariadne, 1695

Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 

[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. 

Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 

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 €

Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 
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