RHENANUS, Johann.

Solis e puteo emergentis: sive dissertationis chymiotechnicae libri tres. In quibus totius operationis chymicae methodus practica: Materia lapidis philosophici, & nodus solvendi eius, operandique, ut & clavis operum Paracelsi, qua abstrusa explicantur deficientia supplentur. Cum praefatione chymiae veritatem asserente ...

Frankfurt, Anton Hummius, 1613-15. Three parts in one vol., 8vo, pp. [xxiv], one folding synoptic table, pp. 80 [recte 78], [1 blank], pp. 31; 24, with a finely engraved allegorical frontispiece by Eberhard Kieser, and several woodcuts in the text; small repair to upper outer corner of engraved title (minimal loss), and a few leaves with marginal repairs; a good copy in old vellum; contemporary inscription 'ex libris Monast. S. Roberti [de Cornillon] ... ord. S. Bened. Congr. Mauri catal. inscr ...' at upper margin of engraved title. FIRST EDITION of Rhenanus' influential work, dedicated to Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse. The first book comprises a treatise on 'the truth of chemistry', and a thorough introduction in 168 theses to chemico-technical theory, with descriptions of chemical operations, and illustrations of chemical apparatus. This part was originally published in 1610, without the other two books. The second book deals with the preparation of the philosophers' stone, the third is a 'key to the works of Paracelsus.'Rhenanus 'studied at Marburg under [Johann] Hartmann, took the degree of M.D. in 1610, and became physician in Cassel of the Landgrave Moritz, who employed him actively in chemical experiments' (Ferguson). Beside Hermes Trismegistus, Geber, Morienus Romanus, Roger Bacon, Ramon Lull, Paracelsus, and Basilius Valentinus, Rhenanus' teacher Hartmann receives special praise in the dedication.The engraver and publisher Eberhard Kieser settled at Frankfurt in 1609. He was responsible for the illustrations of a number of works, including the commemorative volume of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian II, and a fine Dance of Death in the manner of Holbein and Aldgrever. He also collaborated with Matthias Merian, illustrator of a number of hermetic works.Duveen p. 505-06 (now: Neu 3490); Ferguson II p. 264; Krivatsy 9602; Sudhoff 294; NUC records only two further locations, Library of Congress, and Yale University.

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