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I.—THE CHEMICAL TREATISE of Thomas Norton, the Englishman, called Believe-Me, or The Ordinal of Alchemy

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II.—THE TESTAMENT OF CREMER, Abbot of Westminster and Brother of the Benedictine Order

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III.-THE NEW CHEMICAL LIGHT, Drawn from the Fountain of Nature and of Manual Experience. By Michael Sendivogius

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IV.—THE NEW CHEMICAL LIGHT, Second Part, Concerning Sulphur. By Michael Sendivogius

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V.—AN OPEN ENTRANCE TO THE CLOSED PALACE OF THE KING. By an Anonymous Sage and Lover of Truth (i.e., Eirenæus Philalethes)

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VI.—A SUBTLE ALLEGORY CONCERNING THE SECRETS OF ALCHEMY, very useful to possess and pleasant to read. By Michael Maier

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VII.—THE THREE TREATISES OF PHILALETHES. I. The Metamorphosis of Metals

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VIII.—THE THREE TREATISES OF PHILALETHES. I. A Short Vade Mecum or Guide to the Celestial Ruby

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IX.—THE THREE TREATISES OF PHILALETHES. III. The Fount of Chemical Truth

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X.—JOHN FREDERICK HELVETIUS' GOLDEN CALF, which the World worships and adores: in which is discussed the Most Rare Miracle of Nature in the Transmutation of Metals, viz.: How at the Hague a Mass of Lead was in a Moment of Time changed into Gold by the Infusion of a Small Particle of our Stone

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XI.—THE ALL-WISE DOORKEEPER, or a Fourfold Figure, exhibiting analytically to all who enter this Museum the Mosaico-Hermetic Science of Things above and Things below

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