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2634.1 Baro URBIGERUS, pseud. 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: Contain'd 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 Baro Urbigerus, A Servant of God in the Kingdom of Nature. 8° London, Printed for H. Faithorne 1690 Ferguson British Library Wisconsin [Contains:-
2. Circulatum minus Urbigeranum, Or the Philosophical Elixir of Vegetables, With The Three certain Ways of Preparing it, fully and clearly set forth in One and Thirty Aphorisms.] [Illustration:-
Frontispiece engraving. 142x81mm. A tree labelled "Virtus unita Fortior" grows out of a river. Underneath its branches on the left is a serpent with a crescent Moon on its head, while on the right is a winged dragon with a crescent Moon on its head, a Sun on its belly and a cross at the end of its tail. The serpent speaks the words "nil sine vobis", while the dragon says "per nos omnia". Below on the left, Apollo and Diana, with Sun and Moon on their respective heads. On the right, these have fused together into a hermaphrodite with a double-head, who holds Diana's bow in one hand and Apollo's Sun in the other.]
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