LE FILET D'ARIADNE, POUR ENTRER AVEC SEURETÉ DANS LE LABIRINTHE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE HERMÉTIQUE.
Paris: Chez Laurent d'Houry, 1695. First Edition. 12mo., [8], 176, [32]; G; disbound, wraps in paper-covered cardboard casing, facsimile of title page to front cover;
Embossed stamp to title page, page 99; small tear missing from fore edge of page 61; small water-drop stain to top edge of first 5 leaves;
Folding table of the "Explication des plus commons Caracteres Chymiques"; with several woodcuts of apparatuses in text;
Extremely scarce; AG consignment; shelved case 3.
1334137
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $2,800
NOTES
Authorship unknown.; Neither Caillet nor Duveen mention the folding table. Isaac Newton's copy at Trinity College Library, Cambridge, does have the plate. Two of the Four copies on COPAC have the table.;
Caillet 9238: "petit traité peu commun que Brunet attribue à G. Le doux, dit de Claves, et la Bibliothèque Nationale à Christophe Reibehand.";
Duveen page 217: "The book is in the nature of a laboratory manual and contains no clue as to the real identity of the author";