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Ideas of the alchemists - Origin of alchemical practice - First alchemists - Earliest alchemical signs and symbols - Chinese alchemy - Alchemists of Islam - Alchemists in Europe - Alchemy in the fourteenth century - English alchemists - Alchemical symbolism - Stories of transmutations - From alchemy to chemistry - Hermetic philosophy - Relation of alchemy to science London: The Scientific Book Club, 1951. Hardcover 246pp. Illustrated. Original burgundy cloth with title lettering in red to the spine, a few small chips and tears to the jacket with marks to the rear, internally clean. A very good copy.
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