Collectanea Chymica :

Heavy ink blots and a horizontal strike-through obscuring a handwritten line of text, likely a former owner's name.

A

COLLECTION

Of Ten

Several Treatises

CHEMISTRY,

CONCERNING

The Liquor Alkahest, the Mercury of Philosophers, and other curiosities worthy of perusal.

Written by

Eirenaeus Philalethes, Anonymus, Jan Baptista van Helmont, Dr. Francis Anthony, Bernhard Earl of Trevisan, Sir George Ripley, Roger Bacon, George Starkey, Sir Hugh Platt, and the Tomb of Semiramis; see more in the Contents.

L O N D O N,

Printed for William Cooper, at the Pelican in Little Britain, 1684.

Eirenaeus Philalethes: A pseudonym used by a 17th-century alchemist. The Liquor Alkahest: A hypothetical universal solvent in alchemy. Little Britain: A street in London famous for its booksellers.