The practise of the new and old phisicke

Dublin Core

Title

The practise of the new and old phisicke

Subject

Medicine Early works to 1800
Materia medica Early works to 1800
Pharmacy Early works to 1800
Distillation Early works to 1800
Distillation apparatus Early works to 1800
Distillation
Distillation apparatus
Materia medica
Medicine
Pharmacy
Early works
Early works to 1800

Description

Translation of: Euonymus : Conradi Gesneri ... De secretis liber secundus, the second part of Gesner's Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. First English ed. (1576) has title: The newe iewell of health.
Running title: The first[-fourth] booke of distillations.
Signatures: *⁴A-Y⁸ 2A-2L⁸.
Title vignette ("Alchymya"); books 2-4 also have special t.p. with large vignettes.
Includes index.

Creator

Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565

Source

Herbert Hoover Collection of Mining & Metallurgy, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges

Publisher

London : Peter Short

Date

1599

Contributor

Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016

Rights

Public domain

Relation

[no text]

Format

[12], 256 leaves (leaf [12] of 1st group blank) : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts

Coverage

Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain