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Paul Ferguson
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 Posted: Wed Mar 13th, 2013 03:27 pm
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"A superb extensive Italian manuscript collection of alchemical texts, including fine illustrations portraying the technical equipment of an alchemical laboratory. Collections of this size, and as finely illustrated, are of the greatest rarity on the market."

Quaritch at the Milan Book Fair, Stand 32. Item 3 of the first catalogue listed here:

http://www.quaritch.com/downloads;jsessionid=18646D9D9F401B53C00AFE9BB9A999CE

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 Posted: Thu Mar 14th, 2013 04:24 am
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I wish they'd been a little more disert in their description than : "15 volumes, small 4to, written in Latin".

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Carl Lavoie wrote:
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I wish they'd been a little more disert in their description than : "15 volumes, small 4to, written in Latin".

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This looks like a couple of pages from it. Click on photo in link below to see larger version.

http://eventi.alai.it/espositori/espositore/bernard-quaritch-ltd.html

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