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Auction 85
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85-301 (Gesner,C., Pseud.:) Evonymus Philiatrus.
Thesaurus de remediis secretis. Venedig 1556. 16°. Mit ca. 60 Textholzschn. 567 (ohne S. 49-50 u. 63-66) S., 20 Bl. Prgt. d. 19. Jhts. mit goldgepr. Rckn.-Fileten, Rsch. u. Rotschn. (Etw. gebräunt, leicht fl.).
Wellcome Libr. 2781; Osler 638; Hunt Coll. I, 76; vgl. Ferguson I, 313f. u. Duveen S. 246. - "The book is interesting as a record of the chemistry known by Gesner, the greatest naturalist, polyhistor and bibliographer of his time. It deals with distillation and is the forerunner of the books of Glauber and French, as it is the successor of those of Brunswicke and Ulstadt. It gives an account of plants to be distilled (with drawings of them), of furnaces and other apparatus, and the methods of getting the virtues of plants, animals, and minerals, and their uses in effecting cures. It evinces considerable knowledge of practical pharmaceutical chemistry as then practised, especially as the author admits his want of skill in the art. It contains som e singular remedies, and some curious ideas" (Ferguson). - Mit viel. Abb. chemischer Geräte u. einigen hübschen Pflanzenholzschn. - Sauberes, nur vereinzelt leicht fl. Ex.
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