BASILIUS VALENTIANUS
by Kleweta, Raphael Augustinus
Price: $390.00
- Bookseller: The Veatchs Arts of the Book
- Seller Inventory #: 9757
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Belveze de Razes: Anima Mundi, 2000.
Book Description
Belveze de Razes: Anima Mundi, 2000. . 4 1/2 x 6. Approximately 15 "pages." Actually 9 tri-fold interlocking sheets, printed from the artist's calligraphy in blues, greens, and browns. With six engravings in colors, and line drawings in the text. Handmade paper wraps molded, embossed, printed in blue, & gilded. Wooden slipcase covered in black velvet with cork top & bottom. Fine. No. 19 of 150 copies signed by the artist. Each engraving is also numbered & signed by the artist. Hand printed on handmade paper with painted speckles and gilded fore edges. Layout and illustrations suggest a medieval manuscript on alchemy. Basilius Valentius was an early chemist who extracted hydrochloric acid from marine salt, and copper from pyrites, among other achievements.
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