The secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemovnt. Conteinyng many excellēt remedies agaynst dyuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures ...

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Author / Creator:Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565
Uniform title:Secreti. Part 1. English
Imprint:Londini, anno à virgineo partu, M.D.LIX ...
Description:7 p.l., 122 numb. l., [19] p. 19 cm.
Language:English
French
Italian
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/786183
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Notes:Gothic type.
At end: Imprinted at London by Henry Svtton ... 1559.
The 2d ed. of the first part of the English translation of the "Secreti"; the 1st ed. appeared in 1558, printed at London by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, who also printed the English translation of the 2d part, a copy of which is bound with the present first part and has title: The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont, by hym collected out of diuers excellent aucthours, and newely tr. out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By Willyam Ward. Imprinted at London, by Jhon Kyngston: for Nicholas Englande, 1560. cf. J. Ferguson, Bibliog. notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets, pt. III in Transactions of the Glasgow Archæological society, n.s. vol. I (1890), p. 220-223.

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