How to make Gold

Salomon Trismosinus, Aureum vellus oder guldin Schatz und Kunstkammer. Rorschach: n.n., 1598. 4to.

Trismosinus was a legendary alchemist who was thought to be in possession of the Philosopher’s Stone. Paracelsus records that he met him in Constantinople in 1520, and was instructed by him in the art of alchemy. There is no historical evidence to be found about Trismosinus, except for his very short autobiography in the Aureum vellus. This first edition contains two very famous texts in the tradition of alchemy: the Aureum vellus (Golden Fleece) and the Splendor solis (The Splendour of the Sun).