[ALCHIMIE] EXEMPLAIRE DE PAUL SEDIR [SENDIVOGIUS, Michel] - Lot 118

[ALCHIMIE] EXEMPLAIRE DE PAUL SEDIR [SENDIVOGIUS, Michel] Cosmopolite, ou Nouvelle lumière de la physique naturelle, traittant de la constitution générale des éléments simples et des composez, traduit nouvellement de latin en françois par le sieur de Bosnay. Augmented by the Enigme Philosophique and the Dialogue de Mercure, de l'Alchymiste, et de Nature. Paris, chez Pierre Billaine, rue St Jacques, 1629, in-8, modest posterior boards, XIV (title, epistle, preface), 104 pp. (L'Enigme Philosophique p. 66, Le dialogue de Mercure... from p. 77 to end). Passages marked and underlined in graphite, traces of light wetness, short margins. Rare third edition of this French translation by Millet de Bosnay, (after 3 Latin editions in 1604, 1608 and 1614) in full conformity with the edition published by Pacard in 1618. Ferguson p. 367. Caillet 10134. Dorbon 4544. Copy once owned by Yvon Le Loup, known as Paul Sédir (his signature at the front of the volume).