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Alchemy - FLAMEL, Nicolas - De la transformation metallique, trois anciens tractez en rithme Françoise. A savoir La Fontaine des amoureux de science. Autheur I. De la Fontaine. Les remonstrances de nature à lalchymiste errant: avec la response...

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dudict alchy. par I. de Meuns (...). Le sommaire philosophique de N. Flamel. Avec defence diceluy (...) contre les effortz que I. Girard mect a les oultrager.
Paris, G. Guilllard & A. Warancore, 1561
[4]-73 (of 76) ff. (lacking last 3 lvs incl. 1 bl.) [bound after] [AUGURELLI, Giovanni Aurelli - Les trois livres de la chrysopée, c'est à dire, L'art de faire d'or. Trad. par François Havert]. Paris, B. Prévost (for V. Gaultherot), 1549, 69-[1] ff. (lacking t.-p.), 2 works in 1 vol. (underlinings and ms. notes in the margins, cut a bit short, shaving some ms. and printed marginalia), 18th-c. marbl. calf (sl. rubbed, front hinge sl. dam.), richly gilt spine on raised bands, red title label, red edges. Good but used copy, unfortunately incomplete.  Two very rare and curious hermetic works in French verse<. 1. Collected ed. of 3 hermetic 15th-c. poems, to which the editor added a defence of the art of the Alchemist. The 1st is "La Fontaine des amoureux de science" by Jean De la Fontaine. The 2nd is the as yet unpublished "Remonstrances de la nature", according to the editor also known as "La Complaincte de la Nature", in his foreword ascribed to J. Clopinel, dict de Meung, herewith strenghtening the hermetic interest present in the "Roman de la Rose". Later both poems were added to the Paris eds of the Roman de la Rose by Lenglet du Fresnoy. "Le Sommaire Philosophique" by N. Flamel was later proven not to be by Flamel at all. The present publication established Flamel's reputation as a famous alchemist, until Villain's researches in the 18th c. proved this totally unfounded. The editorship of the present collection is ascribed to J. Gohorry, le Solitaire (c. 1500-1576). 2. First ed. of the French trsl. by F. Habert (c. 1520-c.1562), of "Chrysopoeiae Liber III" by the Italian poet, philosopher and alchemist, G.A. Augurelli (1454-1537), who studied at Padua, became a professor in Venice but because of his passion for alchemy, spent all his money trying to make gold. He dedicated his Chrysopoeiae to Pope Leo X, who rewarded him with a huge empty purse, indicating that he himself could fill it with gold. The translator, Habert, dedicated the book to the Canon and Treasurer at Nantes, Pierre d'Acigné, and added the trsl. of Augurelli's letter to Leo X. 
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