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Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century with 533 Illustrations
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Title: Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century with 533 Illustrations
Author: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
ISBN: 9780500279816
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Alchemy, the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, has been an alternative strand in the development European culture since antiquity. By the 17th century, the complex pictorial language of symbols which encoded its theories and secrets had reached a highpoint of elaboration and sophistication. With the spread of printing, the iconography of alchemy began to flower as never before.
Author: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
ISBN: 9780500279816
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Alchemy, the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, has been an alternative strand in the development European culture since antiquity. By the 17th century, the complex pictorial language of symbols which encoded its theories and secrets had reached a highpoint of elaboration and sophistication. With the spread of printing, the iconography of alchemy began to flower as never before.
