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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Rawlinson D. 310. Quarto. 193 folios. 17th Century. 'The philosophical and physicall wilderness'; an alchemical treatise written in the form of a bombastical and extravagant romance, interlarded with occasional pieces of verse The authors name is subjoined in the anagram (as it seems of 'Rue! uno, millia glubi', to two Latin dedications, one 'viro dignissimo domino, amicissimo suo, Binah'n', and the other 'reverendissimo et prudentissimo viro, domino Ho! nonne Lili halat? quieti', dated at Heliopolis, Nov. 26, 1659. Prepared for the press, with an additional preface by an editor, who says that the author has concealed his name, dated Heliopolis, 30 Nov. 1660. The author says that he removed from Noldon (London) to Out-hawkers (Hawkhurst?) ' a place not far distant from it'. At f139 v a letter from him is dated from Bristol, 12 Nov. 1656.
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