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FIORAVANTI, LEONARDO; et al. An Exact Collection of the Choicest and most Rare Experiments and Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery (both Chymick and Galenick). [8], 16, [2], 180; [2], 106; [10], 92 [i. e., 72]; [12], 75, [5]; [8], 71, [1]; [6], 65, [1], 97-146, [14] pages, with (bb)² (preliminaries to follow title to A Treatise of Chirurgery) bound before A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets. 6 parts in one volume. 4to, 179x134 mm, old speckled sheep crudely rebacked retaining darkened original backstrip, endpapers renewed, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; contents browned and dampstained, paper brittle, extensive pencil underscoring and marginalia, owner's notes in ink on verso of general title showing through on recto, repair in upper inner corner of 3E1 not impairing legibility. London: William Shears, 1659
Collection of remedies and medicinal recipes by continental authors translated by John Hester, a distiller who helped popularize Paracelsian medicine in England. Sudhoff 370 and Norman 797 cite the 1652 edition; Wing F952 (this edition).
