A Treatise of the Three Principles of Metals

A working seventeenth century laboratory manual covering stills and furnaces, compound waters and spirits, and the spagyric preparation of minerals and plants. It is a historical document and should be read as one, not as a set of procedures.

John French

Seven hermetic tracts on the preparation of the stone, including the Bosom Book of Sir George Ripley and treatises on the alkahest, the oil of sulphur and the sophic mercury. Printed from a quarto manuscript in a well known private collection.

Arthur Edward Waite

The most widely read practical alchemical treatise of the seventeenth century, written by an anonymous adept who claimed to have finished the work at twenty three. Isaac Newton studied and annotated it closely.

Eirenaeus Philalethes

Cockren retells the history of alchemy through Nicholas Flamel, Basil Valentine and Paracelsus, then describes his own attempts to prepare metallic tinctures in a modern laboratory. Presented as a historical record rather than as instructions.

Archibald Cockren