About this title: First published in Latin in 1678, "The Hermetic Museum" is an anthology of alchemical writings, some so ancient as to be anonymous. Writers included have become part of historical legend: Helvetius, Delphinus, Michael Maier. Readers will find here an alchemical initiation, a sign to the seeker that there is a mystery and that you must begin here ...
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Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser, York Beach, Maine, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780877287339ISBN:0877287333
Description: Fine. No Jacket. 0877287333 NO creasing on covers or spine, covers crisp & clean. Pages (contains two volumes in one; 357 and 322 respectively) are pristine, NO highlighting or markings in text. Overall condition of this rather Scarce publication is LIKE NEW. From the back cover, 'In the twenty-two tracts that comprise The Hermetic Museum, readers will recognize traces of a central claim in alchemical initiation: that the secrets, whatever they may be, must be understood as coming from a group ... read more
Edition: Fourth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780877282211ISBN:0877282218
Description: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 0877282218. Two volumes. Fourth impression, 1974. Dustjackets are tattered and torn. Front board of volume 1 is warped. Pages clean.; 9" tall. read more
Edition: First Trade Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, ME, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780877287339ISBN:0877287333
Description: Good + Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. read more
Description: Brand New. Hardcover. Shi De is the follow up to the much acclaimed Dewa Che, Dechen's debut album of Tibetan Healing Mantras. Shi De is Tibetan for "peace that brings happiness, " something we need in this world more than ever before. Dechen brings us a little closer with these beautiful songs of peace. "Dechen's voice transmits beautifully a message that reaches every heart no matter what their nature. With her peace-prayers for the world she manages to help us discover our own source of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Robinson & Watkins: London
Date Published: 1973
Description: Very Good. Restored and Enlarged: Most Faithfully Instructing all Disciples of the Sopho-Spagyric Art How that Greatest and Truest Medicine of The Philosopher's Stone may be Found and Held. 2 Volume set. (Voulmes 1 & 2). Minor shelfware. Small mark to the cover corner of vol 2. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Samuel Weiser Inc., York Beach, ME
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780877289289ISBN:087728928X
Description: Containing Twenty-Two Most Celebrated Chemical Tracts. Complete in One Volume. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Two Volumes in One. xiv + 680 pp. Green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt emblem on front cover, blind rules, illustrations. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Originally published in Latin in 1678, The Hermetic Museum was intended as a representative collection of the significant works of alchemy, many of which were rare even then. Now out of print, but this copy is new-unused. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John M. Watkins, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: Hardcovers. 2 Volumes. Large octavos. xii + 358pp & viii + 322pp. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. Gilbert B7. Edition limited to 250 numbered sets, of which this set is number 125. A major collection of alchemical texts, orginally published in Latin in 1678. Waite edited and revised the text of an exisiting privately prepared translation, and first published this, also in an edition of 250 copies, in 1893. This is an exact photolithographic reprint of that ... read more
"First off, Let me say that there are few who will be capable of utilizing this text in the transition and transmutation of elemental values from one composition to another. In saying that, I will not begin speaking of the arts within this summarized epilogue of refreshment. I will tell you there are some versions of this text available in a series of prints that were extreamly limited. These texts will cost a much higher amount, as they are of a full version content.
To keep things simple and to the point, this is an excellent reference for the everyday chemist on up to the alchemic arts. You will not learn Alchemy from this book, but you can use it as a reference. The arts are not shallow as to be some ideal you get out of a book, beware of such approach.
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