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CROLL, Oswald. Basilica Chymica, Pluribus Selectis et Secretissimis propria manuali experientia approbatis descriptionibus, & usu remediorum Spagyricorum aucta a Johan. Hartmanno.[In fine:] Venice, Combi, 1643 3 parts in one volume in 16mo. 155x95 mm. Binding in full stiff vellum, manuscript title on spine, renewed guard sheets. Pages 469, (11); 204, (2), last blank paper missing; 104, (48). Colophon with printing date at end of parts 1 and 2. 48-page final index. 2 illustrations of amulets on pages 357 and 362 and numerous alchemical symbols. Slight traces of use and some spotting, good copy. Rare edition edited by Johann Hartmann, who adds his annotations. The book is divided into three parts: the "Basilica Chymica" i.e. the 'Royal Chemistry,' in which Croll illustrates the use of chemical remedies for the treatment of diseases; the "Praefatio admonitoria" a long dissertation in which Paracelsus' doctrines are expounded; and the "Tractatus de Signaturis, 'Treatise of Signatures,' where the relations of plants to the different parts of the human body are given. At the end of the third part are alchemical symbols and characters representing chemical and mineral substances. Stillman: "Oswald Crollius... was another influential advocate of Paracelsus, and a contributor to the chemical remedies. His Basilica Chymica... was his most popular work. It contained an exposition of the teachings of Paracelsus, a treatise on materia medica in which he emphasizes the chemical medicines, and a treatise on the doctrine of Signatures, a subject also treated in the Paracelsian literature, and which assumes that medicinal plants or other sources of medicine bear some symbol or sign of their value for medicine in their color, shape or other visible sign, by which God intends that their shall become known to those expert and wise in the interpretation of these signs." DSB: "The Basilica chymica became the standard scientific work of iatrochemistry. "Cf. Caillet, 2702. Ferguson I, 187; DSB 3, 471; Magica Casanatense 335. Dorbon, 945 for other editions. Stillman, Early Chemistry, pp. 354-55. Bibliotheca Hermetica, p. 80. 3 parts in one volume in 16mo. 155x95mm. Full vellum binding, handwritten title on the spine, new endpapers. Pages 469, (11); 204, (2), the last blank leaf is missing; 104, (48). Colophon with printing date at the end of parts 1 and 2. Final index of 48 pages. 2 illustrations of amulets on pages 357 and 362 and numerous alchemical symbols. Slight traces of use and some stains, good copy. Rare edition edited by Johann Hartmann, who adds his annotations. The book is divided into three parts: the "Basilica Chymica" that is the 'Real Chemistry', in which Croll illustrates the use of chemical remedies for the treatment of diseases; the "Praefatio admonitoria" a long dissertation in which the doctrines of Paracelsus are exposed; the "Tractatus de Signaturis, 'Treatise of signatures', where the relationships of plants with the different parts of the human body are indicated. At the end of the third part, the alchemical symbols representing the chemical and mineral substances are shown.Stillman: "Oswald Crollius... was another influential advocate of Paracelsus, and a contributor to the chemical remedies. His Basilica Chymica... was his most popular work. It contained an exposition of the teachings of Paracelsus, a treatise on materia medica in which he emphasizes the chemical medicines, and a treatise on the doctrine of Signatures, a subject also treated in the Paracelsian literature, and which assumes that medicinal plants or other sources of medicine bear some symbol or sign of their value for medicine in their color, shape or other visible sign, by which God intends that their shall become known to those expert and wise in the interpretation of these signs." DSB: "The Basilica chymica became the standard scientific work of iatrochemistry."

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