Author: GLAUBER, J.R.
Title: Miraculum Mundi, sive plena pefectaque descriptio admirabilis naturae ...
Description: Amsterdam, Joannem Janssonium, 1653. -1660. 2 parts in 1. 12mo. Recent half vellum, paste paper brds., red spine label. [A - E8, F4; A - F8, G3]. (87, I (blank); 101, I (blank) pp.pp.). All edges speckled red; top margin a vague watersp.). First Latin edition. DSB V, 419 - 423: 'In Amsterdam, Glauber outfitted what was surely the most impressive laboratory in Europe. Samuel Sorbière, a visitor to the laboratory in 1660, described it as "magnificent". There were work-rooms both inside and outside the house, and the walls were covered with vessels and instruments of Glauber's own invention. ... Glauber was more influenced by the metallurgical tradition than other iatrochemists were, and it was undoubtedly from Agricola, Vannoccio Biringuccio, and Lazarus Ercker that he derived much of his practical good sense. On the other hand, alchemy, particularly that of Paracelsus, J.I. Hollandus, Michael Sendivogius, and J.B. van Helmont, determined his goals and his perception of his work. ...Glauber has justly been called the best practical chemist of his day and the first industrial chemist. His instructions for the improvement of laboratory technique were instrumental in preparing the way for the chemical revolution of the next century.': Ferguson I, 329: 'During his lifetime he published some 30 separate treatises. He himself says, however, that they represent not a tenth part of his discoveries and secrets. He was a keen observer, a persevering and succesful experimenter and inventor.': Hirsch II, 574: Kopp, Alchemie, I, p. 50, 203, 251; II, p. 367, 388: Poggendorff I, 909: Schmieder, Gesch. d. Alchemie, p. 408: Krivatsy ... : Ferguson I, 326: Duveen, 252: Comp. Caillet II, 4583: Wellcome 122: Osler 2741: Neu, 1680: Partington II, ... p. 341 - 361 in general: Bibl. Esoterica, Dorbon, ... : Südhoff, p. 573, nr. ... (Miraculum Mundi, Amst., 1653): Partington, p. 345, G4: Ferguson I, 324: Krivatsy, comp. 4795 (German ed. Amst., 1653, 1657, 1660 in 3 parts): Wellcome III, p. 123: Duveen, comp. p. 252/53: Caillet 4576-78:Neu, 1670: : Forbes, Hist. of the art of distillation, 201: 'This physician and chemist was born at Karlstadt (Francony) and lived at Salzburg, Vienna, Frankfurt and Cologne before he moved to Holland in 1648, where he died 20 years later in Amsterdam ...': A rare copy of the first Latin editions published by Janssonius in the city where Glauber spent the last 2 decades of his life, Amsterdam. The years of publication are 1653 to 1660 . A very good copy.

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