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A76996 Paracelsvs of the [brace] chymical transmutation, genealogy and generation [brace] of metals & minerals. Also, of the urim and thummim of the Jews. With an appendix, of the vertues and use of an excellent water made by Dr. Trigge. The second part of the mumial treatise. Whereunto is added, philosophical and chymical experiments of that famous philosopher Raymvnd Lvlly; containing, the right and due composition of both elixirs. The admirable and perfect way of making the great stone of the philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England, by the said Raymund Lully, in the time of King Edw. 3. / Translated into English by R. Turner philomathēs. Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665. 1655 (1655) Wing B3543; Thomason E1590_3; ESTC R208833 78,745 173

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