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Traité de l'or potable (1681) - Carl Lavoie - 05-12-2023
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https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k328462b
RE: Traité de l'or potable (1681) - Paul Ferguson - 05-12-2023
This book (not the same copy) was nicked from Harvard by the notorious alchemical book-thief Cevallos-Tovar:
“And consider Daniel Cevallos-Tovar, the alchemist. The FBI arrested Cevallos in January 1995 for stealing more than 280 rare books about alchemy and the occult, most from Widener and a few from the Yale medical library. Cevallos, an attractive, sixtyish man with an amiable personality, had been admitted to the libraries to do research on chemistry and alchemy. Harvard ultimately recovered about 267 books that he had walked off with--thievery that started perhaps as far back as the mid-1970s--among them such rarities as Eirenaeus Philalethes's Des hochgelehrten Philalethae (Vienna, 1748) and Denys de Maubec de Copponay's Traité de l'or potable (Nice, 1681).
Cevallos had his alchemy lab set up in his apartment in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Mirabile dictu, lightning struck the building and set it on fire. Afterwards, Cevallos moved his stolen and slightly damp alchemy books to a storage warehouse. When he failed to pay storage rent, the owner of the warehouse sold the books at auction. "You could--and many did--buy a carton of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century alchemy books with institutional bookplates for $5 or $10," says Stoddard.”
https://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/html/1997/03/biblio.2.html
Denys (Denis) Moyne de Copponay (Copponex) (1623?-1717), dit de Grimaldy également nommé Denys de Maubec dans sa jeunesse, seigneur de Copponex. Alchimiste charlatan et fabricant de remèdes. Il fut le premier médecin du roi de Sardaigne et duc de Savoie Victor-Amédée II. Il créa une "Académie chimique ducale royale" à Chambéry ayant obtenu du duc les autorisations pour la fonder en 1683. Il publia un grand nombre d'ouvrages de médecine spagyrique.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copponex