Theatrum chemicum britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language (1652)
Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692 · London : Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the angel in Cornhill · leaf 420
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Alchemy
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