Magnalia naturae: or, the philosophers-stone lately expos'd to publick sight and sale; being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus the late famous projection-maker, at the Emperours court, at Vienna, came by, and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection, by projecting with it before the Emperor ... / By John Joachim Becher ... [by] Wenceslaus Seilerus ... Published at the request ... especially of Mr. Boyl [sic].

  • Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682.
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Magnalia naturae: or, the philosophers-stone lately expos'd to publick sight and sale; being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus the late famous projection-maker, at the Emperours court, at Vienna, came by, and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection, by projecting with it before the Emperor ... / By John Joachim Becher ... [by] Wenceslaus Seilerus ... Published at the request ... especially of Mr. Boyl [sic]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by Tho. Dawks & L. Curtiss, 1680.

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3 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 31 pages ; (4to)

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Duveen 56-57
Bolton I290-91
Wing B1643
ESTC R28897
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B1643

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Copy 1 Note: Lacks first (blank?) leaf

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