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Voarchadumia contra alchimiam
Author: Giovanni Augustino Pantheo (Italian, active about 1517–1535)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Printer: Giovanni Tacuino (Italian, 16th century)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Printer: Giovanni Tacuino (Italian, 16th century)
1530
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with woodcut title border (printed in black and four colors) and fifteen woodcuts, plus charts and diagrams
Dimensions
Overall: 21.1 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm (8 5/16 x 6 1/8 x 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund
Accession NumberBR1329
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1530
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet IV, 349; Sander 5407; Mortimer, Italian, 354; British Museum, STC Italian, p. 488
Description(Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1530) Quarto; 74 leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped red morocco (Thibaron).
Illustrations: title border with figures of author and others associated with history of alchemy (printed in black and four colors); double-page map of Venice (fol. A4v-A5r); views of alchemists' furnaces.
First edition, first issue; the MFA copy has been augmented with four leaves inserted between the title page and fol. A2 (see Mortimer). Title-page border is printed in black, overprinted in yellow; the typography is printed in yellow, green, red, and brown. There is four-color printing on fol. A2v, and head-lines in yellow on fols. A7r and A8v. The woodcut of the sphere was used previously in Pantheo's Ars transmutationis metallicae (Venice: Tacuino, 1518-19). The block on fol. L3r has part of the furnace at lower right on a separate piece; the same block is repeated on L4r with a different insertion.
Illustrations: title border with figures of author and others associated with history of alchemy (printed in black and four colors); double-page map of Venice (fol. A4v-A5r); views of alchemists' furnaces.
First edition, first issue; the MFA copy has been augmented with four leaves inserted between the title page and fol. A2 (see Mortimer). Title-page border is printed in black, overprinted in yellow; the typography is printed in yellow, green, red, and brown. There is four-color printing on fol. A2v, and head-lines in yellow on fols. A7r and A8v. The woodcut of the sphere was used previously in Pantheo's Ars transmutationis metallicae (Venice: Tacuino, 1518-19). The block on fol. L3r has part of the furnace at lower right on a separate piece; the same block is repeated on L4r with a different insertion.
ProvenanceLeo S. Olschki, Florence, from whom purchased by MFA, April 29, 1902.