[ALCHIMIE] STUART DE CHEVALIER, Sabine - Lot 124

[ALCHIMIE] STUART DE CHEVALIER, Sabine Philosophical Discourse on the Three Principles, Animal, Vegetal and Mineral, or The Key to the Philosophical Sanctuary Paris, Chez Quillau, 1781, in-12, contemporary brown half calf, smooth spine, decorated, XXIV, IV, 212 pp. One engraved plate, invented by Scottish-born Sabine Stuart De Chevalier. Masonic membership stamp on title page, bottom of engraved plate and page 65. Numerous passages marked in graphite with annotations in the margins. A penciled note specifying a Masonic provenance in the center of the title page. The only first volume of this extremely rare work. Caillet 2329. Dorbon 4699 (for the second volume only). Guaita 993, 2129 "A very rare and most interesting work for the study of the various doctrines relating to the Philosopher's Stone, principally those of Basil Valentin and Paracelsus".