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 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. / All which are contained in six books, composed by John French, Dr. of Physick.

  • French, John, 1616-1657
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1651
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Treatise of the choisest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation
Of the art of distillation

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by Richard Cotes and are to be sold by Thomas Williams at the Bible in Little-Britain without Aldersgate, 1651.

Physical description

24 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts).

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) F2169.
Thomason E.619[5].

Notes

Title page in red and black.
With eight final contents leaves.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Dec: 7th 1650", the 51 in imprint the date crossed out.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 95:E619[5]) s1999 miun s

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