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• Der Graf von Saint-Germain: Das Leben eines Alchimisten (in German), by Gustav Berthold Volz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lives of alchemystical philosophers: To which is added a bibliography of alchemy and hermetic philosophy, by Arthur Edward Waite and Francis Barrett (Gutenberg ebook)

• Histoire critique de Nicolas Flamel et de Pernelle sa femme : recueillie d'actes anciens qui justifient l'origine & la médiocrité de leur fortune contre les imputations des alchimistes : on y a joint le testament de Pernelle & plusieurs autres pieces intéressantes (Chez G. Desprez ..., 1761), by Étienne François Villain (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Geschichte der Wissenschaften in der Mark Brandenburg von den ältesten Zeiten an bis zu Ende des sechszehnten Jahrhunderts (Berlin ; und Leipzig : Bei Georg Jakob Decker, 1783., 1783), by Johann Karl Wilhelm Möhsen and Georg Jakob Decker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leonardo Fioravanti, bolognese (L. Cappelli, 1920), by Davide Giordano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (c1998), by J. T. Young (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)

• Raymund Lully, Illuminated Doctor, Alchemist and Christian Mystic (London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus: His Personality and Influence as Physician, Chemist and Reformer (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1920), by John Maxson Stillman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paracelsus. (AMS Press, 1982), by John Maxson Stillman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paracelsus. (Society of Metaphysicians, 1963), by Franz Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers (London: G. Redway, 1888), by Arthur Edward Waite
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• The life & work of Roger Bacon : an introduction to the Opus majus (Williams & Norgate, 1914), by John Henry Bridges, Hedley Gordon Jones, and Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Los alquimistas : conferencia leida en la Sociedad de Ciencias de Málaga el dia 8 de octubre de 1903. (Impr. "La Ibérica,", 1903), by S. González Anaya and Sociedad de Ciencias de Málaga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alchemy and the alchemists (Crosby, Nichols and Company ..., 1857), by Ethan Allen Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alchemy : ancient and modern : being a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines and their relations to mysticism and to recent discoveries in physical science : together with some particulars regarding lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists. (W. Rider & Son, 1922), by H. Stanley Redgrove (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The second lash of Alazonomastix, laid on in mercie upon that stubborn youth Eugenius Philalethes, or, A sober reply to a very uncivill answer to certain observations upon Anthroposophia theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita ([Cambridge] : Printed by the printers to the University of Cambridge, 1651), by Henry More (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson (Gutenberg text)

• The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (1919), by Thomas Vaughan, ed. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Von Mose und denen Propheten übel urtheilende Alchymist (Bey Conrad Stösseln, 1706), by Johann Georg Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moore scour'd once more (Printed by T.W. ..., 1651), by Thomas Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (as serialized in Weird Tales, 1941), by H. P. Lovecraft, illust. by Harry Ferman
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• St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by William Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kullan voima : Kertomus (in Finnish), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, by William Godwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Modern Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Adventures of Oliver Munier: An Extravaganza in Four Acts, by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg ebook)

• Erdélyi alchimisták ; Bethlen Gábor fejedelem alchimiája (Minerva, 1927), by Gyula Orient (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Essays in historical chemistry (Macmillan and co., limited;, 1902), by T. E. Thorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Without fame; the romance of a profession (Alliance Book Corporation, 1942), by Otto Eisenschiml (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Erinnerung an vorangegangene Freunde ; gesammelte Gedächtnissreden. (F. Vieweg, 1888), by August Wilhelm von Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bref utgifna af Kungl. svenska vetenskapsakademien genom H.G. Söderbaum. Lettres publieés au nom de l'Académie royale des sciences de Suède (Almqvist & Wiksells], 1912), by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Arne Holmberg, and H. G. Söderbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Justus von Liebig und Friedrich Mohr in ihren Briefen von 1834 bis 1870. Ein Zeitbild. (Zentralantiquariat d. DDR, 1970), by Justus Liebig, Georg W. A. Kahlbaum, and Friedrich Mohr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thomas B. Osborne : a memorial. (Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1930), by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoir of George Wilson M.D., F.R.S.E. reguis professor technology in the University of Edinburgh and director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland (Edmonston and Douglas;, 1860), by Jessie Aitken Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berzelius und Liebig; ihre Briefe von 1831-1845. Mit erläuternden Einschaltungen aus gleichzeitigen Briefen von Liebig und Wöhler ... Hrsg. mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften von Justus Carrière. (J. F. Lehmann, 1893), by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Friedrich Wöhler, Justus Liebig, and Justus Wilhelm Johannes Carrière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nobel lectures, chemistry (World Scientific, 1901), by Nobelstiftelsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nobel lectures in chemistry 1981-1990- (Published for the Nobel Foundation by Elsevier, 1921), by Nobelstiftelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Our untitled nobility (London: Gall & Ingles, 1873), by John Tillotson, illust. by Holman & Bale (page images at Florida)

• Biographical memoir of Russell Henry Chittenden 1856-1943 (National Academy of Sciences, 1945), by Hubert Bradford Vickery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Erinnerungen aus meinem neunzigjährigen Leben. (Voss, 1847), by Ernst Wilhelm Martius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen aus meinem neunzigjährigen Leben ([Gesellschaft für Geschicte der Pharmazie], 1932), by Ernst Wilhelm Martius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The print of my rememberence : an autobiography (Limb Publishing, 1955), by Ruben V Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La industria del salitre i del yodo : 1907-1914 (E. Kaempffer?], 1914), by Enrique Kaempffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Priestley in America, 1794-1804 (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1920), by Edgar F. Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Priestley in America, 1794-1804 (P. Blakiston's son & co., 1920), by Edgar F. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph Priestley (AMS Press, 1976), by T. E. Thorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph Priestley, by T. E. Thorpe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2), by John Ayrton Paris (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2), by John Ayrton Paris (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lavoisier; 1743-1794 d'après sa correspondance, ses manuscrits, ses papiers de famille et d'autres documents inédits (F. Alcan, 1888), by Édouard Grimaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lavoisier (A.F. Formíggini, 1926), by Aldo Mieli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La vie de Pasteur (Librairie Hachette et cie., 1901), by René Vallery-Radot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Albin Haller, biographie, bibliographie analytique des écrits (Gauthier-Villars, 1913), by Ernest Lebon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Pasteur (Constable, 1919), by René Vallery-Radot, William Osler, Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, Richard Clay and Sons, and Constable (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pasteur (Cassell and Co., 1901), by Percy Frankland, Grace C. Frankland, and Grace C. Frankland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lavoisier, 1743-1794 : d'après sa correspondance, ses manuscrits, ses papiers de famille et d'autres documents inédits (Ancienne librairie Germer Baillière et cie, 1896), by Édouard Grimaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Pasteur en su centenario, 1822-27 de diciembre-1922 : homenaje (El Centro, 1922), by Centro Farmacéutico Uruguayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wladimir Feodorovitch Louguinine, 1834-1911 ([s.n.] ;, 1911), by Ch.-Ed. Guillaume (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie, trans. by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon L. Kellogg, contrib. by Marie Mattingly Meloney (Gutenberg ebook)

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