English Alchemy Books R - Z

Rhodocanacis, Constantine.
A discourse in the parsie of antimonie, and the vertues thereof. Written and published at the request of a person of quality. By...
Printed in the year, 1664.

Ripley, George.
The compound of alchymy. Or the ancient hidden art of archemie: conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the Philosophers Stone, Aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Divided into twelve Gates. First written by the learned and rare Philosopher of our Nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edward the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his Epistle to the King, his Vision, his Wheele, & other his workes, never before published: with certaine briefe Additions of other notable Writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in Archemicall Artes...
London imprinted by Thomas Orwin. 1591.
52 folios.
f1r [Woodcut illustrated title page.]
f2-4v [The Epistle Dedicatorie] To the Most High and Mightie Princesse, Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, Fraunce, & Ireland, Defender of the faith, etc. [Signed at end 'Raph Rabbardes'.]
f5 [The Preface] To the right Honourable, Worshipfull, and worthy Gentlemen of England, and other learned & industrious Students in the secrets of Philosophie.
f6r Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius [Latin verse of 16 lines in praise of Ripley].
f6r J.D. gent: in praise of the Author and his Worke [English verse of 14 lines in praise of Ripley].
f6v P. Bales Gent. in commendation of the Author, and his twelve gates: Orderly set down in the 12 last verses [English verse of 18 lines in praise of Ripley.]
f7r The Summe of this Worke, learnedly reduced into these few Verses, by the divine Poet Palingenius [Latin verse of 13 lines.]
f7r-v Sr. E.K. [Edward Kelly] concerning the Philosophers Stone, written to his especiall good friend, G.S. Gent. [Eight six-line stanzas in English.]
f8r The Vision of Sir George Ripley, Chanon of Bridlington [24 lines of English verse.]
f8v Titulis operis ['Here beginneth the compound of Alchymie' 16 lins of verse.]
f8v A briefe note to the Readers [Note by R. Rabbardes concerning Ripley's wheel diagram].
f9-44 The Compound of Alchymie. A most excellent, learned, and worthie worke, written to king Edward tht [sic] fourth, by Sir George Ripley, Chanon of Bridlington in York-shire, contayning twelve gates.
f45-46 An Admonition, wherein the Author declareth his erronious Experiments.
f47-50 The Epistle by the same Author written to King Edward the 4.
f51r [Elaborate circular diagam of Ripley's Wheel.]
f52v To the indifferent Reader.

Rosenroth, Christian Knorr von.
A cabbalistic dialogue .....

Ross, Alexander.
The philosophicall touch-stone: or observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's discourses of the nature of bodies, and of the reasonable soule...
James Young; Charles Green. 1645.

Salmon, William.
Doron Medicum. An idea of the process of the universal medicine of Paracelsus, taken from an original manuscript.
London, 1683.

Salmon, William.
Medicina practica: or, the practical physician: shewing the true method of curing the most usual diseases incident to humane bodies, viz. all sorts of aches and pains, gout, agues, apoplexies, feavers, cholick, scurvey, fluxes, shortness of breath, apostems, thrushes, quinceys, deafness, dropsie, stone in the reins or bladder: women's distempers, &c. with the preparation of the praecipiolum: or universal medicine of Paracelsus. To which is added, the chymical works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid King of Persia, Geber King of Arabia, Artefius Longaevus the Jew, Roger Bacon, Nicholas Flammel's Hieroglyphicks. George Ripley's Marrow of Alchymie. And an account of their lives. Collected from the works of the most eminent authors, both ancient and modern; and faithfully translated from their respective originals,... Adorned with variety of curious sculptures.
London: printed and sold by Edmund Curll at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, 1707.

Salmon, William.
Polygraphice.

[Schwartzfus, Anonymus von.]
Sanguis naturæ, or, a Manifest Declaration of the sanguine and solar congealed liquor of Nature. By Anonimus.
London: Printed for A.R. and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street. 1696.
ii + 112 pages.

Other editions:
The first book only is contained in Fünff curieuse chymische tractätlein...Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1757.

[Although credited in Wing and the British Library catalogue, this appears not to be the work by Christoph Grummet [or Brummet] Kunckel's assistant Das Blutt der Natur... Dresden, 1677, also included in Johann Kunckel, V. curiose chymische Tractätlein... Franckfurth und Leipzig, 1721.]

p i To the Reader
p1-70 Book I. [The first chapter is a conventional exhortation that the reader should implore the help of Jehovah. The second chapter begins by listing nine properties of the philosophers' Stone in an attempt to identify the subject of the Stone. The author then goes on to discuss in some detail the nature of the Elements working within the Earth, the living fire and the three principles. The next chapter follows up in investigating subject of the Stone, that is the substance out of which it is prepared, and particularly investigates its Mercury, Sulphur and Salty aspects. Chapter four is an exploration of the ways of working with Mercury to form a subtle water, which by sublimation forms the white stone. Chapter five continues the idea of drawing a water out of a rock, and describes the process of purification by frequent cohobations and reductions, which remove its impurities. The sixth chapter, follows this investigation of purification through solution and distillation, by introducing the process of pruifying through calcination. Next is described the inhumation in which the purified stone is placed again into the belly of its mother and undergo a death and regeneration, through a slow putrefaction. Following this the dead though living substance is exalted by being united with its soul and sublimed under a powerful heat. The ninth chapter, which concludes the first book describes the process for perfecting the exalted substance into an elixir, by imbibing it with its subtle humidity, and continuously distilling it. Then the final operation, the fixation of the permanent water is performed which leads to the formation of the ruby red stone. The first book teaches both theory and practice, merging philosophical alchemy with some practical work, however the second book consists fundamentally of a series of recipes or 'praxes', using such materials as calx vive, vitriolate tartar, vitriol of venus, litharge, cinnabar, and other substances not so easy to identify, as the starting point for making important alchemical substances. At the conclusion of this work the author identifies the true matter of the stone as salt, not common salt but the salt that is hidden everywhere, the central salt of all things. This is a fine work which gives us insight into philosophical-spiritual alchemy, through parallels and images of processes using physical matter.]

Scot, Patrick.
The tillage of Light. Or, a true discoverie of the philosophicall elixir, commonly called the Philosophers Stone. Serving, to enrich all true, noble and generous spirits, as will adventure some few labors in the tillage of such a light, as is worthy the best observance of the most wise...
London, printed for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop neere Serients lane in Fleetstreet, at the Signe of the Golden Bucke. 1623.

Sendivogius, Michael.
A new light of alchymy: taken out of the fountain of Nature and manual experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur. Written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagrammatically, Divi Leschi Genus Amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz:
Of the Generations Renewing of natural things.
Of the Growth Transmutation of natural things.
Of the Conservations Separation of natural things.
Of the Life, Death Signatures of natural things.
Also a chymical dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F.M.D.
London, printed by A. Clark, for Tho. Williams at the Golden Ball in Hosier-Lane, 1674.

Sendivogius, Michael.
A philosophical account of Nature in general, and of the generation of the three principles of Nature, viz. Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt. out of the four elements. Translated from the French. By John Digby, Esq;
London, printed for for John Hooke, at the Flower-de-luce, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and Thomas Edlin, at the Prince's Arms, against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand. MDCCXXII. [1722]

A short enquiry concerning the Hermetic Art. Address'd to the studious therein. By a lover of Philalethes. To which is annexed, a collection from Kabbala Denudata,and translation of the chymical-cabbalistic treatise, intituled, Æsch-Mezareph; or Purifying Fire.
London: printed in the year, 1714.

A short enquiry concerning the Hermetic Art (which was printed with the Latin and English Aesch-Mezareph) continued. By a lover of Philaletha. Part II.
London: printed in the year, 1715.

Spurstow, W.
The spiritual chymist: or six decades of divine meditations on several subjects...
London, printed for Philip Chetwind, 1666.

Starkey, George.
The admirable efficacy, and almost incredible virtue of true oyl, which is made of sulphur-vive, set on fire, and commonly called oyl of sulphur per Campanam, to distinguish it from that rascally sophisticate oyl of sulphur, which instead of this true oyl, is iunfaithfully prepared, and sold by druggists and apothecaries, to the dishonour of art, and unspeakable damage of their deluded patients. Faithfully collected out of the writings of the most acute Philosopher, and unparalell'd Doctor of this last age, John Baptist Van-Helmont, of a noble extraction in Belgia, and confirmed by the experience of George Starkey, who is a Philosopher by the Fire.
London, printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain. 1683.

Starkey, George.
A brief examination and censure of several medicines. London, 1664.

Starkey, George.
An epistolar discourse to the learned and deserving author of Galeno-pale. By George Starkey, M.D. and Philosopher by Fire.
London, printed by R. Wood, for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain, 1665.

Starkey, George.
George Starkeys pill vindicated from the unlearned alchymist and all other pretenders. With a brief account of other excellent specifick remedies of extraordinary virtue, for the honour and vindication of pyrotechny.
London, 1660.

Starkey, George.
Liquor alchahest, or a discourse of that immortal dissolvent of Paracelsus & Helmont. It being one of those two wonders of Art and Nature, which radically dissolves animals, vegitables, and minerals into their principles, without being in the least alter'd, either in weight or activity, after a thousand dissolutions, &c. Published by J. A. Pyrophilus [J. Astell]...
London, printed by T.R. & N.T. for W. Cademan at the Popes-Head in the lower walk of the New-Exchange, 1675.

Starkey, George [d. 1666.]
Natures Explication and Helmont's Vindication. Or a short and sure way to a long and sound Life: Being A necessary and full Apology for Chymical Medicaments, and a Vindication of their Excellency against those unworthy reproaches cast on the Art and its Professors (such as were Paracelsus and Helmont) by Galenists, usually called Methodists. Whose method so adored, is examined, and their Art weighed in the ballance of sound Reason and true Philosophy, and are to found too light in reference to their promises, and their Patients expectation. The Remedy of which defects is taught, and effectual Medicaments discovered for the effectual cure of all both Acute and Chronical Diseases. By George Starkey, a Philosopher made by the fire, and a professor of that Medicine which is real and not Histrionical.
London, Printed by E. Cotes for Thomas Alsop at the two Sugar-loaves over against St. Antholins Church at the lower end of Watling-street, 1657.
lx + 336 pages. 140x87mm.

Other Editions:
Via ad vitam. Being a short and sure way to a long life. London, printed Richard Hall, 1661.

p i-xvi To the Right Honourable Robert Tichburne, Lord Maior of the famous City of London; George Starkey a Philosopher by the Fire, wisheth all temporal and eternal felicity. [Dedicatory epistle.]
p xvii-lix To the studious lover of Truth and sedulous searcher after Natures secrets, George Starkey (a Philosopher by the fire) wisheth all success and felicity. [Epistle to the reader, signed by Starkey, and dated Nov. 20th 1656.]
p1-111 The Preface or Introduction [in six chapters.]
p113-336 Natures Explication and Helmont's Vindication. [In three chapters.]
That all Diseases are in their kinde curable. - The insufficiency of vulgar Medicines is the cause why many Diseases are judged incurable. - A description of the true method of Medicine, and a discovery of such Medicaments as may evince the possessor of them to be a Physician created of God and not of the Schools.

Starkey, George.
Pyrotechny Asserted and Illustrated, To be the surest and safest means for Arts Triumph over Natures Infirmities. Being A full and free Discovery of the Medicinal Mysteries studiously concealed by all Artists, and onely discoverable by Fire. With an Appendix concerning the Nature, Preparation and Virtue of several specifick Medicaments, which are noble and succedaneous to the great Arcana. By George Starkey, Who is a Philosopher by Fire.
London, Printed by R. Daniel, for Samuel Thomson at the Whitehorse in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1658.
xvi + 172 pages. 137x80mm.

Other editions:
Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated..., London, Printed William Whitwood, 1696.
Pyrotechnia; ofte vuur-stook-kunde vast-gesteld en opgehelderd,... Amsterdam, J. van de Velde, 1687.
La pyrotechnie de Starkey, ou, L'art de volatiliser les alcalis, selon les preceptes de Vanhelmont... Rouen, Chez Laurent d'Houry, 1706.

p i-xii An Epistle From a Friend of the Author's To the Reader. [Signed at end "Philanthropos".]
p xiii-xvi To the Honourable, Virtuous, and most accomplished Gentleman, Robert Boyl Esq; My very good Friend. All temporal and Eternal happiness be multiplied and continued. [Signed "George Starkey".]
p1-75 Pyrotechny Asserted and Illustrated [At end "Explicit Pars Secunda". In sixteen chapters.]
The Preface. - Of the Art of Pyrotechny in General. - That all that pretends to this Art, are not to be reputed Artists. - Of erroneous Operatours more particularly. - Of the true Sons of Pyrotechny. - Of the Operations in Chemistry. - Of the different degrees of Medicines which are to be prepared by this Art. - Of the Keies of this Art in General. - Of the Keyes in particular, and first of the Liquor Alchahest. - Of this Liquours virtue and efficacy in general. - Of this Liquours Virtue and Efficacy more particularly. - Of the Medicines which are preparable by this Liquour, &c. - Of the matter out of which this Liquour is made, and its manner of making. - The Conclusion of this Subject, with a Peroration unto Sons of Pyrotechny. - The Character of a Praeposterous searcher after Natures secrets. - The Character of him, who so searcheth Natures Secrets, as to reap profit thereby, and so attends Pyrotechny, as to be made Per Ignem Philosophus.
p76-172 The Third [sic] Part. Conteining an Experimental Essay, and a Faithful Discoverie of Nature, in her Medicinally Chemical Secrets. [In three chapters.]
The first Chapter, being an Introductorie Historical Narration of my first Salutation of, and first Progress in Chemical Philosophie. - Of Specificks. - Of volatile Salts of Herbes, and their Virtue.
p114 A Corollary Appendix concerning several Noble Specifick Remedies, preparable by Pyrotechny, and Succedaneous to the Grand Arcana.
p158 The Conclusion Of this Treatise. Being an Answer to a Friends Letter, containing some important Queries, &c.

Suchten, Alexander von.
Alex. van Suchten of the secrets of antimony: in two treatises. Translated out of High-Dutch by Dr. C... To which is added B. Valentine's salt of antimony, with its use.
London, printed, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain, 1670.

T., W.
The marrow of chymical physick; or the practice of making chymical medicines...
T.J., for Peter Parker, 1669.

Tachenius, Otto.
Otto Tachenius. His Hippocrates Chymicus discovering the ancient foundations of the late viperine salt with his Clavis thereunto annexed translated by I.W.
London printed & are to be sold by W. Marshall at the Bible in Newgate Street. 1690.

Tentzel, Andreas [fl. 1625].
Medicina Diastatica or Sympatheticall Mumie: Containing, Many mysterious and hidden Secrets In Philosophy and Physick. By the Construction Extraction Transplantation and Application of Microcosmical & Spiritual Mumie. Teaching the Magneticall cure of Diseases at Distance, &c. Abstracted from the Works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: By the labour and industry of Andrea Tenzelius, Phil. & Med. Translated out of the Latine By Ferdinando Parkhurst, Gent....
London, Printed by T. Newcomb for T. Heath, and are to be sold at his Shop in Russell-street, neer the Piazza's of Covent-Garden, 1653. xxii + 128 pages. 136x83mm.

Other editions:
Medicina diastatica: hoc est, Singularis illa et admirabilis ad distans, & beneficio mumialis transplantationis operationem & efficiam habens... Jehnae, Sumptibus Johannis Birckneri, 1629.
Medicina diastatica: hoc est, Singularis illa et admirabilis ad distans, & beneficio mumialis transplantationis operationem & efficiam habens... Erfurti, Sumtibus Johanni Birckneri, excud. Johann Georg. Hertz, 1666.

p i-v To the Right Honorable Basill Earle of Denbigh Viscount Feilding and Baron of Newnham [Dedicatory Epistle by F. Parkhurst.]
p vii-xiv The Translator to the Reader [Signed "Ferd. Parkhurst, June 1653".]
p xv On his worthy Friend Mr. Parkhurst and his Translation of this Mumiall Treatise. [Signed "William Lilly, Student in Astrology".]
p xvi To his ingenious Friend Mr. Ferdinando Parkhurst the industrious Translator of this Excellent Treatise. [Verse by "Roger Ellis Esq."]
p xvii To my honored friend Mr. Ferdinando Parkhurst Translator of this Magneticall Tract. [Verse signed "P. T."]
p xviii On my most worthy and ingenious Friend Mr. Parkhurst and his Translation of this Mysticall Subject. [Verse signed "C. F."]
p xix-xxi [Table of contents.]
p xxii [Note to the reader by F. Parkhurst, suggesting that if this present treatise is well received then he will be encouraged to release the second tract by Tentzelius, On the Tree of Life (see item ???).]
p1-128 A Mumiall Treatise. [In twenty eight chapters.]
Of the definition; diversitie, construction, nature, and property of Mumie. - Of the differences of Mumie. - Of the Extraction of Aereall Mumie. - Of the Spirituall Mumie of a Microcosmicall living body. - Of the Foundation of the Extraction of spirituall Mumie and of its Magnet. - Of the Procession, or manner of Extraction of Spirituall Mumie. - Of the use of Spirituall Mumie (in generall). - Of the Favour of the Heavens toward the aforesaid Operations. - Of the Time delineated by the Heavens for the proposed Operations. - Of the use of Spiritual Mumie (in specie) To reconcile a friendship betwixt 2 Men. - To reconcile private or publick Enemies. - To reconcile the Ape and Serpent (naturally hating one another) and other Animals, who are by nature enemies. - To procure a mutuall love and affection betwixt a Man and his Wife. - Of the operation of Antipathy. - To cure both sorts of Jaundies.- To cure the Dropsie Magnetically. - Against the Plurisie. - To cure Feavers by this Mystery. - Of the Oppilations of the Liver, Brain, Lungs, Spleen, Reynes, &c. - Of Aches in the Limbs, caused by Oppilation. - Of the Gout and Catarrh's. - Of Wounds and Ulcers. - Of the Hernia, or Burstennesse. - Of Fluxions and Salt Rheums causing pains and soreness in the Teeth and Eyes, &c. - Of Menstruous Evacuation and Retention. - Of the Consumption & Hectick Feaver. - Of particular Blastings. - Against Sterility or Barrennesse: And also the manner of detracting strength from an Horse, and transmitting it into a Man, or from any Man or Beast into any other.

Thompson, James.
Helmont disguised: or, the vulgar errours of impericall and unskilfull practisers of physick confuted. More especially, as they concern the cures of the feavers, stone, plague, and other diseases. In a dialogue between Philiatrus and Pyrosophilus. In which the chief rarities of physick is admirably discoursed of. By J.T....
London printed by E. Alsop, for N. Brook, and W. Leybourn, and are to be sold at the signe of the Angel in Cornhil. 1657.

Tymme, Thomas.
A Dialogue Philosophicall. Wherein Natures secret closet is opened, and the cause of all motion in Nature shewed out of matter and Forme, tending to mount mans minde from Nature to Supernaturall and Celestiall promotion: And how all things exist in the number of three.
Together with the wittie invention of an Artificial perpetuall motion, presented to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.
All which are discoursed between two speakers, Philadelph, and Theophrast, brought together by Thomas Tymme, Professour of Divinitie.
London, Printed by T.S[nodham] for Clement Knight, and are to be solde at his Shop in Paules Church-yards, at the signe of the Holy-Lambe, 1612.
vi + 72 pages. 2 engravings.

Dedication to Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice.
[A treatise in the form of an extended dialogue between Philadelph and Theophrast. Philadelph, in general, takes the role of a questioner and analyst of Theophrast's teachings. In the first part they discuss the beginning of all natural things and their first matter, the form of all natural things, the power which is a preparation of matter to receive form. Then they continue to discuss matter, form and temperament, the three principles of Nature, that is Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, and the existence of Man in the number three. The second part concerns itself with motion. In four chapters they discuss the motions of the heavens, the motion of the sea, and whether the Earth itself has a natural notion. They then discuss Cornelius Drebbel's perpetual motion machine, and a fine engraved plate of this is shown. In the final chapter they deal with the cause of all natural causes, the Divine, and the motions of man's soul towards heavenly things.]

Urbigerus, Baro.
Aphorismi Urbigerani, or certain rules, clearly demonstrating the three infallible ways of preparing the Grand Elixir or Circulatum majus of the Philosophers, discovering the secret of secrets, and detecting the errors of vulgar chymists in their operations: contained in one hundred and one aphorisms: to which are added the three ways of preparing the vegetable elixir or Circulatum minus: all deduc'd from never-erring experience by... a servant of God in the kingdom of Nature...
London, printed for Henry Faithorne, at the Rose in St. Pauls's Church-yard, 1690.

Valentine, Basil.
Basilius Valentinus, a benedictine monk, Of natural & supernatural things. Also, of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed and augmented. Whereunto is added, Frier Roger Bacon, of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his work of Saturn, and Alex: Van Suchten, of the secrets of antimony. Translated out of High Dutch by Daniel Cable.
London, printed, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain, 1671.

Valentine, Basil.
Basilius Valentinus Friar of the Order of St. Benedict his last will and testament. Which he himself, being alone, hid under a table of marble behinde the high-altar of the Cathedral Church, in the Imperial citie of Erfort; leaving it there to be found of him, whom Gods Providence should make worthy of it. Wherein he sufficiently declareth the wayes he wrought to obtain the Philosophers Stone, and taught them also to his fellow Collegians, all of whom attained also to the having of the Philosophers Stone: whereby not onely the leprous bodies of the impure, and inferior metals are reduced unto the pure and perfect body of gold and silver, but also all manner of diseases whatsoever are cured in the bodies of unhealthfull men, and kept thereby in perfect health unto the prolonging of their lives.
London, printed anno Domini, MDCLVII [1657].

Valentine, Basil.
The triumphant chariot of antimony, being a conscientious discovery of the many reall transcendent excellencies included in that minerall, written by Basil Valentine a Benedictine monke. Faithfully Englished and published for the common good. By I. H. Oxon.
Printed for Thomas Bruster, and are to be sold at the Three Bibles neere the West end of Paules Church-yard in London, 1660.

His triumphant chariot of antimony, with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius. M.D. with the true book of the learned Synesius a Greek Abbot taken out of the Emperour's library, concerning the Philosopher's Stone.
London. Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry. 1678.

Vaughan, Thomas.
Anima Magica Abscondita: Or A Discourse of the universall Spirit of Nature, With his strange, abstruse, miraculous Ascent, and descent. By Eugenius Philalethes...
London, Printed by T.W. for H.B. 1650.

Vaughan, Thomas.
Anthroposophia Theomagica: Or A Discourse of the Nature of Man and his state after death; Grounded on his Creator's Proto-Chimistry, and verifi'd by a practicall Examination of Principles in the Great World. By Eugenius Philalethes...
London, Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill. 1650.

Vaughan, Thomas.
Aula Lucis, Or, The House of Light: A Discourse written in the year 1651. By S.N., a Modern Speculator...
London, Printed for William Leake, and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Crowne in Fleet-street, between the two Temple Gates. 1652.

Vaughan, Thomas.
Euphrates, or the Waters of the East; Being a short Discourse of that Secret Fountain, whose Water flows from Fire; and carries in it the Beams of the Sun and Moon. By Eugenius Philalethes...
London printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1655.

Vaughan, Thomas.
The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R: C: Commonly, of the Rosie Cross. With A Præface annexed thereto, and a short Declaration of their Physicall Work. By Eugenius Philalethes...
London, Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert, at the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls. 1652.

Vaughan, Thomas.
Lumen de Lumine: Or A new Magicall Light discovered, and Communicated to the World By Eugenius Philalethes...
London, Printed for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corne-Hil. 1651.

Vaughan, Thomas.
Magia Adamica: Or The Antiquitie of Magic, And The Descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfect, and full Discoverie of the true Coelum Terræ, or the Magician's Heavenly Chaos, and first Matter of all Things. By Eugenius Philalethes...
London, Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corn-hill, 1650.

Vaughan, Thomas.
The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the Margins of Eugenius Philalethes...
Printed in London, and Sold at the Castle in Corn-hill. 1650.

Vaughan, Thomas.
The Second Wash: Or The Moore Scour'd once more, Being A Charitable Cure for the Distractions of Alazonomastix. By Eugenius Philalethes...
London, Printed by T.W. and are to be sold at the Castle in Cornhill. 1651.

Vigenere, Blaise de.
A discourse of fire and salt, discovering many secret mysteries, as well philosophicall, as theologicall.
London, printed by Richard Cotes, 1649.

Webster, John.
Metallographia: or, an history of metals. Wherein is declared the signs of ores and minerals both before and after digging, the causes and manner of their generations, their kinds, sorts, and differences; with the description of sundry new metals, or semi-metals, and many other things pertaining to mineral knowledge. As also, the handling and shewing of their vegetability, and the discussion of the most difficult questions belonging to mystical chymistry, as of the Philosopher Gold, their mercury, the liquor Alkahest, Aurum potabile, and such like. Gathered forth of the most approved authors that have written in Greek, Latine, or High-Dutch; with some observations and discoveries of the author himself... London, printed by A.C. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-head in Duck-lane. MDCLXXI [1671].

Weidenfeld, Johannes Segerus.
Four books of... concerning the secrets of the adepts; or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine: a practical work. With a very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy, reconciled together, by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true; and so to avoid vagabond imposters and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.
London, printed by Will. Bonny, for Tho. Howkins in George-yard in Lombard Street, MDCLXXXV. [1685]

Weigel, Valentinus.
Astrologie theologized: Wherein is set forth, what astrologie, and the light of Nature is. What influence the Starres naturally have on Man, and how the same may be diverted. And avoided. As also that the outward Man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of Grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: Which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in outward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. By Valentine Weigelius.
London, printed for George Whittington at the Blue Anchor in Cornhill, near the Royall Exchange. 1649.

Willis, Thomas.
The search for causes. Containing a theophysicall investigation of the possibilitie of transmutatorie alchemie... London printed by John Legatt. 1616.

Wisdom reputed folly: or, the composition and reality of the Philosophers Stone...
Printed for the author, and sold by W. Boreham at Pater-noster Row. [1720?]

Y-Worth, William.
Chymicus rationalis: or, the fundamental grounds of the chymical art rationally stated and demonstrated, by various examples in distillation, rectification, and exaltation on vinor spirits, tinctures, oyls, salts, powers, and oleosums; in such a method as to retain a specifick virtue of concrets in the greatest power and force. In all which the chymicall doctrines are illustrated upon a new hypothesis or spagyrick course, composed agreeable to practical philosophy, and the best authority of Art, for mysteries treated of by Cartes, Starkey, Sylvius, Glauber, Helmont, Paracelsus, and others, are explicated and exemplarified, after a more particular and exact manner than heretofore, and so fitted in order for the publick service. In which is contained, a philosophical description of the Astrum Lunare Microcosmicum, or Phospheros. Recommended to all that desite to improve and advance profitable turths, such as are real and not hystorical. By W.Y-worth, spagyrick physician in both medicines, and Philosopher by Fire.
London: printed for Thomas Salusbury, at the sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleet-street. 1692.