THE JEWISH ALCHEMISTS: A History and Source Book. (Used)

by Patai, Raphael.

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Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Book ID: 429, 429

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Princeton 1994, 617pp, 35 B&W plates and figures, notes, and index, fine copy. Reviewed at length in Ambix, also Gnosis, this is a major history, densely packed with the harvest of many years of research. Patai may be best known to many as the co-author with Robert Graves of the Hebrew Myths, but he is the author of many other highly important books. He is also that rare writer who can convey history and ideas with grace and ease and in depth. This is one of a handful of truly great books on alchemy published last century.

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