Paracelsus his Aurora, & treasure of the philosophers· : As also the water-stone of the wise men; describing the matter of, and manner how to attain the universal tincture. Faithfully Englished· And published by J. H. Oxon.

Aurora thesaurusque philosophorum. English

Caption title on p. 1: Aurora of the philosophers by Paraclesus
Caption title on p. 77: Water-stone of the vvise men

London : Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be sold at the Black Spred Eagle, at the west end of Pauls, 1659.

[8], 229, [3] p. ; (12mo)

A translation of: Aurora thesaurusque philosophorum.

"The water-stone of the vvise men" is a translation of the twenty-third epistle of Jakob Böhme.

With a preliminary errata page and three final advertisement pages.

Signatures: A⁴ B-K¹² L⁸.

Signatures from DFo.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B3540
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R211463

Great Britain -- England -- London.

174- 067q

Manuscript pencilled shelf-mark (Britwell Court). Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "W.S: Jno. Crawley"; initials "I C" stamped in gilt on front and back covers; armorial bookplate of Denis Duveen (motto "per augusta ad augusta"); Britwell Court copy; Britwell Sale (428, Sotheby's, 15 March 1926); collated at Quaritch, 15 March 1926; purchased by Folger from L.C. Harper, List 23:107, 6 October 1959