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A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets : teaching to distill all manner of oyles from gummes, spices, seedes, rootes, hearbs, and mineralls, &c. : with their severall vertues, out of sundry approved authors
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Uniform Title
Key of philosophie
Title
A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets : teaching to distill all manner of oyles from gummes, spices, seedes, rootes, hearbs, and mineralls, &c. : with their severall vertues, out of sundry approved authors.
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Harper, 1633.
Physical Description
[4], 57, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (4to in 8's)
Local Notes
MED,HSL 17th cent: Signatures: A-D⁸ (D₈ [blank?] wanting)
Notes
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 is either derived from Paracelsus (cf. Kocher) or is adapted and translated from P. Hermanni. Een constich distillierboeck (cf. Sudhoff).
Earlier London editions (1575, 1580, 1596) were published, with John Hester as the author, under title: The key of philosophie. Another edition was published in 1633, also in London, attributed to Paracelsus, under the title: The secrets of physick and philosophy.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Sudhoff, K. Bibl. Paracelsica. Graz, 1958.
Kocher, P.H. John Hester, Paracelsan, in Joseph Quincy Adams memorial studies.
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 19182.5.
Catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine, 55556.
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