Editing Alchemy (section)

=== Introductions and textbooks ===
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Beretta|editor1-first=Marco |date=2022 |title=A Cultural History Of Chemistry in Antiquity |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |doi=10.5040/9781474203746 |isbn=978-1-4742-9453-9 |doi-access=free}} (focus on technical aspects)
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Burnett|editor1-first=Charles|editor2-last=Moureau|editor2-first=Sébastien |date=2022 |title=A Cultural History Of Chemistry in the Middle Ages |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4742-9454-6}} (focus on technical aspects)
* {{cite book |last1=Halleux |first1=Robert |date=1979 |title=Les textes alchimiques |location=Turnhout |publisher=Brepols |isbn=978-2-503-36032-4}}
* {{cite book |last1=Joly |first1=Bernard |date=2013 |title=Histoire de l'alchimie |location=Paris |publisher=Vuibert-Adapt |isbn=978-2-311-01248-4}} (general overview)
* {{cite book |last1=Martelli |first1=Matteo |date=2019 |title=L'alchimista antico: Dall'Egitto greco-romano a Bisanzio |location=Milano |publisher=Editrice Bibliografica |isbn=978-88-7075-979-2}} (Greek and Byzantine alchemy)
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Moran|editor1-first=Bruce |date=2022 |title=A Cultural History Of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4742-9459-1}} (focus on technical aspects)
* {{cite book |last=Multhauf |first=Robert P.|author-link=Robert P. Multhauf |year=1966 |title=The Origins of Chemistry |location=London |publisher=Oldbourne |oclc=977570829}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Nicolaïdis|editor1-first=Efthymios |date=2018 |title=Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity |series=De Diversis Artibus |volume=104 |location=Turnhout |publisher=Brepols |doi=10.1484/M.DDA-EB.5.116173 |isbn=978-2-503-58191-0}} (Greek and Byzantine alchemy)
* {{cite book |last1=Partington |first1=James R.|author1-link=J. R. Partington |date=1970|orig-date=1961 |title=A History of Chemistry. Volume 1, Part I |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-333-03490-3}} (the second part of volume 1 was never published; the other volumes deal with the modern period and are not relevant for alchemy)
* {{cite book |last1=Pereira |first1=Michela |date=2001 |title=Arcana Sapienza: Storia dell'alchimia occidentale dalle origini a Jung |location=Rome |publisher=Carocci |isbn=978-88-430-9647-3}} (general overview, focus on esoteric aspects)
* {{cite book |last1=Principe |first1=Lawrence M.|author-link=Lawrence M. Principe |date=2013 |title=The Secrets of Alchemy |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-10379-2}} (general overview, written in a highly accessible style)
* {{cite book |last1=Rampling |first1=Jennifer M. |date=2020 |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo50462000.html |title=The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-82654-7}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Viano|editor1-first=Cristina |date=2005 |title=L'alchimie et ses racines philosophiques. La tradition grecque et la tradition arabe |location=Paris |publisher=Vrin |isbn=978-2-7116-1754-8}}