True Report on the Philosophical Athanor and its Use and Benefit

... Third edition, and augmented. With privilege original: "Cum privilegio". Published by the author. Anno 1615, 4 sheets in 8vo.

I have not seen the first editions: for as all his writings are a stupendous rarity, so this Athanor furnace, which he wrote in Magdeburg, and the preceding one on fire, have always been sought after as if by lantern light, although this one is still to be encountered more frequently than the Athanor, whose image can also be seen in Dienheim’s taeda trifida chymica The Three-pronged Chymical Torch. As often as it appeared in auctions, it was paid for with 6 to 8 thalers. It will therefore be a great favor to those of the golden generation and their students that they receive a new, reworked, unadulterated print in their hands. As highly as his writings are valued by all enthusiasts, they are just as unpleasant and contrary to read when he has written in the German language; for now there are Latin words, now German, now the Latin words are at the same time translated into German, and nearly all pages are filled with marginal notes,