Das "Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung" von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana
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- Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 1980
Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 1980. Later Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later Edition. Hardcover. 'Here for the first time in the history of Arabic scholarship is a complete critical edition of the Kitäb sirr al-khaliqa (The Book of the Secret of Creation) in its Arabic text; it is also titled Kitab al-'ilal (The Book of the Causes). A separate study of the tradition of the text together with a German abstract is planned to be published in the series Ars Medica. Together with the Tabula Smaragdina, which originally had its place at the end of this treatise, the Kitäb sirr al-khaliqa was one of the best known and most influential treatises in Arabic and Latin medieval alchemy and cosmology."
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. Near fine, light shelfwear, foxing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. xl, 258pp. Yellow cloth. Former owner library stamp. Lacking dj. In German.
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. Near fine, light shelfwear, foxing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. xl, 258pp. Yellow cloth. Former owner library stamp. Lacking dj. In German.