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Ternarius ternariorum hemeticorum bezoardicorum laudanorum

Sala, Angelus, 1576-1637, Tentzel, Andreas, active 1625. Exegesi chymiatrica, Birckner, Johann, 1587-1658 · 1630 · Erfurti : Impensis Johannis Birckneri, biblip. · 8 pictures

A 1630 Latin treatise on chemical medicine by Angelus Sala, with commentary by Andreas Tentzel, printed at Erfurt for the bookseller Johann Birckner for physicians and alchemists. Its pictures are mostly typographic ornament: a page-top band of stacked scroll and foliate motifs, a small symmetrical floral cartouche, a worn woodcut initial with figures, and a fleuron strip along the foot of a page, offering a designer historic border and initial-letter models.

Bezoars · Pharmacology · Alchemy

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