Lot 94
Croll (Oswald) Basilica Chymica, first edition, Frankfurt, Claude Marnier & the heirs of Jean Aubry, 1609.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500
Description
Croll (Oswald) Basilica Chymica, 3 parts in 1, first edition, engraved title within elaborate pictorial borders comprising portraits of alchemists and depictions of chemical apparatus and alchemic symbols, woodcut illustrations, occasional early ink marginalia, extensive to a few ff., without the suppressed 6pp. dedication to Croll's patron, browned and spotted, new endpapers with later ink notes, later vellum, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, stained, [Krivatsy 2914; Not in Duveen, Norman, Mellon or Ferguson], 4to,Frankfurt, Claude Marnier & the heirs of Jean Aubry, 1609.
Description
Croll (Oswald) Basilica Chymica, 3 parts in 1, first edition, engraved title within elaborate pictorial borders comprising portraits of alchemists and depictions of chemical apparatus and alchemic symbols, woodcut illustrations, occasional early ink marginalia, extensive to a few ff., without the suppressed 6pp. dedication to Croll's patron, browned and spotted, new endpapers with later ink notes, later vellum, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, stained, [Krivatsy 2914; Not in Duveen, Norman, Mellon or Ferguson], 4to,Frankfurt, Claude Marnier & the heirs of Jean Aubry, 1609.
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