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Polygraphice, or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming

in seven books ... to which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chemical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chemical preparations...The 5th edition...

by William Salmon, John Crump, Frederick Hendrick van Hove, William Sherwin, William Vaughan & Margaret White

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Frontispiece port. of author and added engraved t.p. with date 1675, both signed by William Sherwin as engraver. Plates engraved by Sherwin, William Vaughan, and Frederick van Hove Signatures: A⁸(±A1) B-2D⁸ Includes index "A catalogue of some books sold by John Crumpe"--Last p Binding: old (original?) polished calfskin. Boards sparsely tooled with double fillets in black, edges of boards with single fillets in gilt. Page edges sprinkled red On 2nd front free endpaper is signature of Elizabeth Cutts (d. 1698). She is identified as wife of John Cutts, 1st baron Cutts of Gowran, in pencilled note on facing p

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism and Divination and oracles.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Alchemy”· via Open Library
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Palmistry”. Retained metadata contains “Palmistry” in the subject metadata and “Chiromancy” in the edition subtitle.

    • “Palmistry”· via Internet Archive
    • “Palmistry”· via Open Library
    • “Palmistry”· in subject
    • “Chiromancy”· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 6 editions; 2 cataloged here.

... to which is added, a discourse of perspective and chiromancy ...

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1681London : Printed by M. White, for John Crumpe, at the Sign of the Three Bibles in St. Paul's Church-Yard; London, : Printed by Andr. Clark, for John Crumpe ...; Printed by M. White, for John Crumpe ...English—Public

in seven books ... to which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chemical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chemical preparations...The 5th edition...

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1685London : Printed for Thomas Passinger... and Thomas Sawbridge; Printed for Thomas Passinger... and Thomas SawbridgeEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Contributing institution: University of Pittsburgh Library System
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL18033598W
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