The secrets of physick and philosophy, divided into two bookes: in the first is shewed the true and perfect order to distill, or draw forth the oyles of all manner of gummes, spices, seedes, roots, and hearbs, with their perfect taste, smell and vertues. In the second is shewed the true and perfect order to prepare, calcine, sublime, and dissolve all manner of minerals, and how ye shall draw forth their oyles and salts ... for the health of mans bodie / First written in the German tongue by ... Theophrastus Paraselsus [sic], and now published in the English tongue, by John Hester.

  • Hester, John, -1593
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view The secrets of physick and philosophy, divided into two bookes: in the first is shewed the true and perfect order to distill, or draw forth the oyles of all manner of gummes, spices, seedes, roots, and hearbs, with their perfect taste, smell and vertues. In the second is shewed the true and perfect order to prepare, calcine, sublime, and dissolve all manner of minerals, and how ye shall draw forth their oyles and salts ... for the health of mans bodie / First written in the German tongue by ... Theophrastus Paraselsus [sic], and now published in the English tongue, by John Hester.

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The secrets of physick and philosophy, divided into two bookes: in the first is shewed the true and perfect order to distill, or draw forth the oyles of all manner of gummes, spices, seedes, roots, and hearbs, with their perfect taste, smell and vertues. In the second is shewed the true and perfect order to prepare, calcine, sublime, and dissolve all manner of minerals, and how ye shall draw forth their oyles and salts ... for the health of mans bodie / First written in the German tongue by ... Theophrastus Paraselsus [sic], and now published in the English tongue, by John Hester. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by A. M[atthews for William Lugger], [1633]

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11 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves, 196 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves ; (12mo)

Notes

STC 19182
Sudhoff 356, 184
Pt. 1 is "a loose paraphrase, not a translation" of Duchesne's De exquisita mineralium, animalium, & vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione & usu, perspicua tractatio. Pt. 2 probably is derived from Paracelsus. Cf. P. H. Kocher. John Hester, Paracelsan in Joseph Quincy Adams memorial studies, 1948, p. 629-630
Earlier London editions (1575, 1580, 1596) were published under title: The key of philosophie. Also published anonymously in London in 1633 under title: A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets.
Copy 1 Note: Lacks first (blank?) leafFirst (blank?) leaf wanting.

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ESTC S113991
STC (2nd ed.), 19182

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