A collection of his alchemical worksFabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650[ca. 1700]engManuscript on paper containing 1) Propugnaculum alchymiae, the Defence of alchymy. 2) The first (second, third, fourth) booke of universall wisedome. 3) Hercules piochymicus. 4) Myrothecium spagyricum, or A chymicall dispensatoryIn English.Script: Written in a clear cursive hand with some secretary elements.Watermarks: Paper with rather faint large watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a cartouche, surmounted by staff with cross and letter "M," not certainly identified.Very moderate abbreviation, headlines and marginalia throughout by the scribe.Anonymously translated into English.Accompanied by: By the King's letters patent. A machine on a new principle. Shelved as Mellon MSS 76a.Binding: Early eighteenth-century English binding of parchment over pasteboards, somewhat unglued and with defects, the backstrip divided into eight compartments by raised bands, the compartments gold-tooled with floral motifs; binder's endpapers watermarked with a fleur-de-lys mark, countermarked "VI," closely related to Heawood 1544, 1552, and 1554.