Glauber, John Rudolph

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 USD

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Description

A Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, or a New Art of Distilling, Divided into Five Parts. Whereunto Is Added a Description of the Tincture of Gold, or the True Aurum Potabile; Also, the First Part of the Mineral Work. London: printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, 1651
paper, ink, leather

Five parts in one volume, 4to (7 x 5 in.; 178 x 127 mm). General title within a border of printer's ornaments, woodcut headpieces and initials, each part and "Of the Tincture of Gold" and "Of the Minerall Work" with separate title-pages dated 1652 bearing continuous pagination and register, 13 woodcut text illustrations and 3 full-page woodcuts of chemical apparatus and furnaces, blank leaf 2Q1 present, 5 final contents leaves and final errata leaf, woodcut initials and headpieces; moderate browning throughout, slight soiling, one marginal paper flaw (2G4). Half calf over old marbled boards; worn, rebacked.

Provenance

Jo. Tristram (contemporary signature on title-page) — Harold Marshall (armorial bookplate on front pastedown)

Literature

Wing G846; ESTC R202215; Duveen p. 252

Catalogue Note

First edition in English, translated by John French.