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GESNER, CONRAD. The Treasure of Evonymus [pseud.] conteyninge the wonderfull hid secretes of nature. 1559. Lacks leaf after title.
[GESNER, CONRAD.] The Treasure of Evonymus [pseud.] conteyninge the wonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines for the conservation of helth. 58 text woodcuts depicting plants and distilling apparatus. [18] (of [20]), 408 pages; title trimmed with loss of imprint and mounted, lacks the following leaf with printer's preface. Black letter. Small 4to, early 19th-century 1/2 calf gilt, front joint starting; contents clean, with only a clean tear across upper margin of 2A4. Masonic bookplate of the Supreme Council, 33°, dated 1900. London: John Daie, (1559)
- Notes: first edition in english of a treatise on distillation originally published in 1552 in Latin. "The book contains some new material, describes the plants to be distilled . . . the furnaces and apparatus, and the methods of making the quintessences of wine, of plants, animals and of minerals"--Partington II, 82. Durling 2082 (this edition); Duveen 247 (1565 second edition in English).
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