Five Treatises of the Philosophers Stone is an annotated paperback edition of a seventeenth-century English alchemical anthology. The collection brings together five treatises by multiple contributors: two attributed to Alphonso, King of Portugal, one by John Sawtre, one by the German philosopher Florianus Raudorff, and one concerning the names of the Philosophers Stone by William Gratacolle.
The original volume also includes the Smaragdine Table (Emerald Tablet). Its early English publication was prepared under the initials H. P., generally associated with Henry Pinnell. The collection explores the symbolic language, theory, and history of the Philosophers Stone, offering a fascinating resource for readers of early modern alchemy and Western esotericism.
