Author: Stolcius de Stolcenberg, Daniel ; Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg; Daniel Stolcius; Daniel Stoltzius (1600-1660 or 1597-c. 1644). )
Title: A Collecton of Engravings from Hortulus Hermeticus Flosculis Philosophorum Cupro Incisis Conformatus, & Breuissimis Versiculis Explicatus Quo Chymiatriae Studiosi Pro Philotheca Vti, Fessique Laboratorium Ministri Recreari Possint / Authore M. Daniele Stolcio Bohemo, Med: Cand: Poeta Lau: Cor: . Hortvlvs Hermeticvs Floscvlis Philosophorvm Cvpro Incisis Conformatvs. - [Short Title] : Hortulus Hermeticus Flosculis Philosophorum. First Edition
Description: Francofurti : Impensis Lucae Jennisii, MDCXXVII [1627] (Frankfurt: Luca Jennis, 1627). A Collection of 88 of 160 engravings with related text mounted on 9 sheets. The text to each image is numbered in Roman numerals between L and CLX. Each sheet is signed and dated 1759 on the verso. Engravings 41 x 32mm.. The engravings of famous thinkers from first edition of this important alchemical emblem book. The allegorical engravings in this work first appeared two years prior, at the end of a German alchemical miscellany by the same publisher with no explanatory text. The present offering combines the images with explanatory prose and poetic captions to express the secrets of transmutation, on the model of Michael Maier’s 1617 Atalanta fugiens and Stoltzius’s own 1624 Viridarium Chymicum. Caillet 10386; Duveen p. 566; Ferguson II, p. 410-411; Landwehr 561.. NOTE: It is possible that the engravings are from Johann Daniel Mylius' "Opus medico-chymicum: Continens tres Tractatus sive Basilicas: Quorum prior inscribitur Basilica Medica. Secundus Basilica Chymica. Tertius Basilica Philosophica" (Frankfurt : Lucam Jennis, 1618). .

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