Libvre accomply de secrets chimiques pour distillations

LIBVRE accomply de secrets chimiques pour distillations, sublimations, cimentations, congélations, fixations, transmutations, calcinations, blancs, rouges, lune, soleil, et pierres précieuses en toute perfection. Avec sa partie ajoincte de médicaments excellents. The leaf facing the title has a pen-drawn astrological diagram illustrating the 'Science Platonicque du futur contingent' and the last two leaves contain astrological tables. Part of the second section (72 pp.) is in Italian with some words in a alphabetical cypher. The last section is a 'Déclaration ou exposition de l'horloge critique et médicinale'.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 10 bl. ll. + 22 ll. + 180 pp. + 19 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 72 pp. + 8 ll. 4to. 20 x 15 cm. Original vellum binding. Two fly-leaves have been cut out at the beginning.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1922.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Armorial Ex-libris of Walter Sneyd [1809-1888].