The practise of the new and old phisicke, wherein is contained the most excellent secrets of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into foure bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inward as outward, of al the parts of mans body: treating amplie of al distillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best & most approued authors / by that excellent Doctor Gesnerus. Also the pictures and manner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instruments thereunto belonging. Newly corrected and published in English by George Baker, one of the Queenes Majesties chiefe Chirurgians in ordinary.

  • Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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view The practise of the new and old phisicke, wherein is contained the most excellent secrets of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into foure bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inward as outward, of al the parts of mans body: treating amplie of al distillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best & most approued authors / by that excellent Doctor Gesnerus. Also the pictures and manner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instruments thereunto belonging. Newly corrected and published in English by George Baker, one of the Queenes Majesties chiefe Chirurgians in ordinary.

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The practise of the new and old phisicke, wherein is contained the most excellent secrets of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into foure bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inward as outward, of al the parts of mans body: treating amplie of al distillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences ... Gathered out of the best & most approued authors / by that excellent Doctor Gesnerus. Also the pictures and manner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instruments thereunto belonging. Newly corrected and published in English by George Baker, one of the Queenes Majesties chiefe Chirurgians in ordinary. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Peter Short, 1599.

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12 unnumbered pages, 235 pages, 256 unnumbered numbered leaves : woodcut on t.page, woodcut illustrations ; (4to)

Notes

Title vignette; books 2-4 have also separate t.p. with large woodcut vignettes
Translation of the second part of Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri de remediis secretis, published in 1569 under title: Euonymus. De remediis secretis liber secundus. First English edition (1576) has title: The newe jewell of health
Errors in foliation
Bound in gilt-edged calf, with leather label on spine.
Copy 1 Note: Imperfect.
Copy 1 With bookplate of John Ryley
Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Note: Blank leaf before A1 in the preliminaries wanting.

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STC 11799
Ferguson I 316
ESTC S103092
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 11799
STC (2nd ed.), 11799

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