A Wealthy Store-house of Alchemical Treasures, Being A General APPENDIX to all Glauber’s hitherto-published Writings. The First Century of Alchemy was written by Johann Rudolf Glauber in the 17th century. It was called a “Century” since it is divided into 100 parts, each marked with Roman numerals from I through C.
Christopher Packe provided the English translation from the High Dutch. The English edition was published in London in 1689, and from it this work was extracted. Glauber’s works are voluminous, consisting of over 2,500 pages of text. This part of the complete works of Glauber was restored and added to the R.A.M.S. (Restorers of Alchemical Manuscripts Society) Library by Hans W. Nintzel in 1983.
Christopher Packe provided the English translation from the High Dutch. The English edition was published in London in 1689, and from it this work was extracted. Glauber’s works are voluminous, consisting of over 2,500 pages of text. This part of the complete works of Glauber was restored and added to the R.A.M.S. (Restorers of Alchemical Manuscripts Society) Library by Hans W. Nintzel in 1983.
