A Lexicon of Alchemy, or Alchemical Dictionary [Alchemy]. Containing a Full and Plain Explanation of all Obscure Words, Hermetic Subjects, and Arcane Phrases of Paracelsus by Martinus Rulandus

First US Edition, printing. Hardcover. Martin Ruland the Elder (1532, in Freising - 3 February 1602), also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician, alchemist and classical philologist. He was a follower of the physician Paracelsus. A lexicon of alchemy written by his son Ruland the Younger was often attributed to Ruland the Elder. Ruland's 1612 Lexicon alchemiae ('Dictionary of Alchemy') is cited by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung in his writings on alchemy. Ceremonial magician Arthur Waite translated the book into the English language. From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical 'Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Light shelf/edgewear, light foxing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth with gilt ornamentation and titling. 8vo. vii, 466pp. Index. Former owner library stamp.…