• Secrets Reveal'd; or, An Open Entrance to the Shut-Palace of the King, 1669

Curatorial Notes:

• Secrets Reveal’d sets down the signature, antimony-based practice of George Starkey, one of the 17th century’s most influential alchemical writers. Born in Bermuda, Starkey studied at Harvard College before moving to London, where he crafted the persona of Eirenaeus Philalethes, a fictive American adept. His commentaries on George Ripley were published posthumously as Ripley Reviv’d (1678). By reinterpreting Ripley’s “red lead” as antimony, Starkey promoted his own chemical innovations while profiting from Ripley’s authority as a famous English adept.

Credit Line:

• Rare Books Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Annotations (Provenance)

Creator:

• Philalethes, Eirenaeus

Author:

• Philalethes, Eirenaeus

Language:

• English

Publisher:

• London, Printed by W. Godbid for William Cooper, 1669.

Date:

• 1669

Extent:

• [30], 120 [6] p. ; 17 cm.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9924727753506421

Subject:

• Annotations (Provenance)—18th century

Description:

• Ex copy: On front free endpaper in ms. in red ink: "the 11th March 1710/11 began the reading of this book and makeing annotations thereon from my other book // Idem Whit : sunday May 20, 1711"
• Ex copy: Numerous ms. annotations in red ink throughout.

References:

• ESTC R18468

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/5t34sr54n