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The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choisest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation

being partly taken out of the most select chymicall authors of severall languages, and partly out of the authors manuall experience : together with the description of the chiefest furnaces and vessels used by ancient, and moderne chymists : also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments and curiosities, and of the anatomy of gold and silver, with the chiefest preparations, and curiosities thereof, and vertues of them all : all which are contained in six books

Also known as Art of distillation; Of the art of distillation; Treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation

by John French

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  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Traditions: Alchemy and Hermeticism

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Alchemy, Chemistry, Distillation

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being partly taken out of the most select chymicall authors of severall languages, and partly out of the authors manuall experience : together with the description of the chiefest furnaces and vessels used by ancient, and moderne chymists : also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments and curiosities, and of the anatomy of gold and silver, with the chiefest preparations, and curiosities thereof, and vertues of them all : all which are contained in six books

University of Pennsylvania digitized edition

24 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to); Errata on recto of last leaf.; Numerous woodcut illustrations; woodcut headpieces and initials.; Signatures: A⁴ *⁴ [par.]⁴ B-2E⁴.

1651Printed by Richard Cotes, and are to be sold by Thomas Williams ..English—Public download

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  • Colenda collection: Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 998295943503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, E.F. Smith Collection, TP589 .F74
  • Provenance: Institute of Chemistry Library (stamp)
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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