The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century with 533 Illustrations

by Stanislas Klossowski de Rola

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Alchemy, the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, has been an alternative strand in the development European culture since antiquity. By the 17th century, the complex pictorial language of symbols which encoded its theories and secrets had reached a highpoint of elaboration and sophistication. With the spread of printing, the iconography of alchemy began to flower as never before.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0500279810

ISBN13:9780500279816

Release Date:February 1998

Publisher:Thames & Hudson

Length:320 Pages

Weight:3.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 8.4" x 10.7"

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