The art of distillation, or a treatise of the choisest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation, being partly taken out of the most select chymicall authors of severall languages, and partly out of the authors manuall experience; together with the description of the chiefest furnaces and vessels used by the ancient, and moderne chymists: also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments, and curiosities, and of the anatomy of gold and silver. With the chiefest preparations, and curiosities thereof, and vertues, of them all ... / Composed by John French.
- French, John, 1616-1657.
- Date:
- 1651
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by R. Cotes, and are to be sold by T. Williams, 1651.
Physical description
12 unnumbered leaves, 199 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, t.page in red & black, woodcuts ; (4to)
References note
Wing F2169
ESTC R202026
Thomason, E.619[5]
Wing (2nd ed.), F2169
Notes
Copy 1 Note: Bottom of t.p. and part of imprint cut away.
Copy 1 Signature of Henry Stopes, dated 20 April 1887
Copy 2 Note: With numerous contemporary MS. medical and domestic receipts. Five leaves wanting.
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Copy 1
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/23536Copy 2
Location Status Access Closed storesMS.4759