Theatrum chemicum britannicum. Conatining severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, esq., qui est Mercuriophilus anglicus. The first part.

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Title vignette.
Contains the Ordinall of alchemie by Thomas Norton, the Compound of alchemie by George Ripley, the Chanon's yeoman's tale by Chaucer, Sir Edward Kelley's Worke, Doctor John Dees' Testament, Secreta secretorum by John Lydgate, and other works.
Presentation copy from Ashmole to G. Wharton whose autograph inscrip. is on t.p. (Sir George Wharton was Ashmole's instrucor in Alchemy & Astrology).
Engv'd front (lacking). Title in black & red, A'recto, verso blank; Prolegomena, signed by Ashmole, A[superscript]2-B[superscript]4.