Title: The
New Pearl of Great Price. A Treatise Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious
Stone of the Philosophers or the Method and Procedure of this Divine Art.
Author: BONUS of Ferrara. Translated by Arthur Edward Waite.
Publisher: Vincent Stuart Ltd
City: LondonYear: 1963 (Second Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 441Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt
emblem on front cover. This edition limited to 500 copies. In overall excellent condition: No interior markings; slight shelfwear; dust jacket remains uncut. "A Treatise
Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers or the
Method and Procedure of this Divine Art; With observations drawn from the Works
of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, First Published
by Janus Lacinus, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index. The Original Aldine
Edition Translated into English." A work thought to have been written by
Petrus Bonus of Ferrara in circa 1330. The Aldine Press version, from which
this translation was made, was published in Venice in 1546.
