FABRE, Pierre Jean.
Alchymista Christianus. In quo deus rerum author omnium, & quamplurima fidei Christianae mysteria, per analogias chymicas & figuras explicantur, Christianorumque orthodoxa, doctrina, vita & probitas non oscitanter exchymica arte demonstrantur.
Tolosae Tectosagum [Toulouse]: Apud Petrum Bosc, Bibliopolam. . 1632
8vo, pp. (xxxi), 236, (4). Woodcut device on title. Contemporary English calf (small hole in foot of spine and in top of lower joint), paper labels on spine, pastedowns from printer’s waste.
FIRST EDITION. Fabre was a physician and alchemist, whose remedies, borrowed from chemistry, brought him a great reputation. This work, on the relationship between chemistry and Christianity, is one of about eleven books that he wrote on medicine and alchemy, all of which were published in Toulouse. A French edition was published in 2001. Bound with this copy is the first part of Fabre’s Myrothecium Spagyricum, sive, Pharmacopoea Chymica (1632). The second part (pp. 353–448), which has its own title-page, is not present. Duveen, p. 202. Ferguson I, p. 260.
£1,400
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