THE GOLDEN FLEECE original: "AVREVM VELLVS," a reference to the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts, often used by alchemists as a metaphor for the pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone.

Or

Golden Treasure and Chamber of Art:

In which the most
distinguished, excellent, select,
magnificent, and proven authors' writings
and books are contained, from the very ancient treasure of the remaining,
hidden, and withheld relics and monuments of the Egyptian,
Arabian, Chaldean, and Assyrian
kings and sages. Capuchin Library 1798 original: "Bibliothecâ Capucinorum 1798"; this is a later provenance mark indicating the book was once held in a monastery library.

The noble, highly enlightened, excellent,
and proven philosopher Salomon Trismosinus (who
was the teacher teacher: the original Latin "praeceptor" implies a primary instructor or mentor of the great philosopher and physician Theophrastus Paracelsus)
arranged into special, distinct little treatises,
and brought into the German
language.

Together with other special little treatises by
philosophical writers, both old and new,
all of which have never before
been heard of or seen, as the catalog
explains.

By a lover of the art the art: a common shorthand for Alchemy, the "Great Art" of transmuting metals and achieving spiritual perfection brought together with great ex-
pense, effort, labor, and danger, from the original documents and manu-
scripts, and most faithfully and
diligently brought to light.

Printed at Rorschach on Lake Constance.