Lot n° 224
Estimation :
300 - 500
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de LONGEVILLE HARCOUET - Histoire des personnes qui ont vécu - Lot 224
de LONGEVILLE HARCOUET - Histoire des personnes qui ont vécu plusieurs siècles et qui ont rajeuni avec le secret du rajeunissement Tiré d'Arnaud de Villeneuve - A Paris, Veuve Charpentier et Laurent Lecomte, 1715 - 1 vol. petit in-12° - bound in half basane, spine decorated - 11 ff + 343 pp et 1 f. n. ch.
(headbands damaged, corners dull, boards badly worn - numerous pips and brown spots)
Note: "Caillet cites this "curious" work as "spagyric medicine". The term spagyria, referring to the art of separating and then reassembling the main constituents of bodies, first appears in Paracelsus. The name of the great medieval scholar and physician Arnauld de Villeneuve (1240-1311) was later associated with the alchemical corpus."
Chapter XXII presents the "Méthode d'Arnaud de Villeneuve [circa 1240 1311] pour opérer le grand oeuvre du rajeunissement".
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