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Les Enluminures, New York, first edition, 2013. Laminated pictorial wrappers with flaps, 8vo, 21 cm,. 31, [1] pp, colour ills. 10 items. From Sandra Hindman's introduction - "The purchase en bloc of a coherent group of alchemy manuscripts from the collection of Joost R. Ritman . inspired the present volume. The manuscripts (with the exception of cat 4) were once part of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermética in Amsterdam, the library Ritman founded to bring together manuscripts and printed works in the field of the Hermetic tradition, more specifically the "Christian-Hermetic" tradition. Alchemical language was carefully crafted both to conceal and to reveal, and even the bizarre imagery can be 'decoded' - as its authors intended- into ideas about the world and the way it works. Professor Lawrence Principe's contributions to this volume present a useful up-to-date guide to the often [misunderstood] subject and argue for the righttful position of alchemy in the… Read More