Io. Bap. Portae Neopolitani De distillatione lib. IX. Quibus certa methodo, multipliciqúe artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfectè docetur / [Giambattista della Porta].

  • Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.
Date:
1608
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Romae : Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apostolicae, 1608.

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20 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations, engr. portrait, woodcuts ; (4to)

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Second edition published in Strasbourg 1609 under title: De distillationibus libri IX. Cf. Ferguson, Duveen.
Includes index.
Signatures: [cross]⁴ 2[cross]⁶ A-V⁴.
Author's dedication dated Neapoli 20. Iulii 1504.
Includes dedications to the author in Hebrew, Greek, Chaldee, Persian, Illyrian, and Armenian, with Latin translations of the epigrams.
Copy 1 Note: Not identical with any of the three other 1608 editions held. Previous shelfmark 5211c/B.

References note

Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica p. 216 note
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. 369
Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica p. 481
Wellcome cat. of printed books, v. I, 5211c

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