Catalogue Entry: ALCH00072

'De Mineralibus': notes on Geber, Basil Valentine, Paracelsus and other alchemical writers.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: 'Estates of Mind', Great Neck, New York, USA

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £6.10s. and presumably sold by them to Sir Robert Hadfield, who bequeathed it to the Iron and Steel Institute (later renamed the Institute of Metals). On 13 December 1994 it was sold at Sotheby's for £19,550 to 'Estates of Mind'.

Sotheby Lot

SL52

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