Ayton, William Alexander (1817-1909)

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Transcripts of translations by Sigismond Bacstrom of seven short German works on alchemy. These are followed by a transcript of Samuel Norton's 'Key to Alchemy', 1577, perhaps from MS. Ashmole 1421 (26) (27). The frontispiece contains water-colour drawings of 'Apparatus to attract the Lunar Humidity': at the beginning of Norton's work (p. 163) is a pen-drawn copy of the 'Tree of Alchemy', and on p. 194 copies of small illustrations of alchemical apparatus, and at the end copies of the drawings of the six furnaces. Ayton's own magical sigil is stamped on many of the leaves.

Ayton, William Alexander (1817-1909)

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