The practise of the new and old phisicke, wherein is contained the most excellent secrets of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into foure bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inward as outward, of al the parts of mans body: treating very amplie of al distillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, with the extraction of artificiall saltes, the vse and preparation of antimony, and potable gold gathered out of the best & most approued authors,

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Author / Creator:Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565
Uniform title:Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. English. Selections
Edition:Newly corrected and published in English, by George Baker.
Imprint:London, Peter Short, 1599.
Description:[11], 256 numbered leaves [i.e. 512 p.] illus. 18 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1423415
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Other authors / contributors:Baker, George, 1540-1600
Notes:Title vignette; books 2-4 have also separate t.p. with large woodcut vignettes.
Translation of the second part of Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri de remediis secretis, published in 1569 under title: Euonymus. De remediis secretis liber secundus. First English edition (1576) has title: The newe jewell of health.
STC 11799; Ferguson I, 316.
Bound in gilt-edged calf, with leather label on spine.

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