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Nicolas Flamel. Line engraving.

Le mythe de Nicolas Flamel ou les mécanismes de la pseudépigraphie alchimique / Robert Halleux.

A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.

Histoire critique de Nicolas Flamel et de Pernelle sa femme / Recueillie d'actes anciens qui justifient l'origine et la médiocrité de leur fortune contre les imputations des Alchimistes. On y a joint le testament de Pernelle & plusieurs autres pieces intéressantes. Par M.L.V***.

Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Christ, with a sword in his mouth, between seven candlesticks; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 1772/3.

Three men ride through the sky on black, red and white lions (colours of the alchemical process); beneath, men lay sprawled among dismembered limbs. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

An enthroned king, wearing three crowns and with a sword in his mouth, having vanquished a green seven headed hydra; an archangel with a key imprisons Lucifer in chains by a roaring fire; representing the culmination of the alchemical process and the sublimation of base matter. Coloured etching after an etching, ca. 17th century.

A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Des berhuhmten Philosophi Nicolai Flamelli Chymische Wercke, alss 1. Das güldene Kleinod der hierogliphischen Figuren. 2. Das Kleinod der Philosophiae. 3. Summarium philosophicum. 4. Die grosse Erklärung des Steins der Weissen zur Verwandelung aller Metallen. 5. Schatz der Philosophiae. Den Liebhabern der Kunst aus dem Französchen [sic] in das Teutsche über gesetzt von J. L.

Traicté du soulphre, second principe de nature / Faict par le mesme autheur, qui par cy deuant a mis en lumière le premier principe, intitulé le Cosmopolite [Anon.] Traduit de latin en françois par F. Guiraud. Avec plusieurs autres opuscules du mesme suject. ['Oeuvre royalle de Charles VI roy de France' and 'Thresor de philosophie ou original du desir desiré de N. Flamel.']

Trois traictez de la philosophie naturelle, non encore imprimez. Scavoir, Le secret livre du tresancien philosophe Artephius, traictant de l'art occulte et transmutation metallique, latin françois. Plus Les figures hierogliphiques de Nicolas Flamel ... Ensemble Le vray livre du docte Synesius / [Pierre Arnauld].

Medicina practica; or, Practical physick. : Shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... To which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artefius Longaevus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon, and George Ripley. All translated out of the best Latin editions, into English ... Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes ... In three books.

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Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.