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PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. De distillationibus, libri IX. Full-page engraved portrait of Porta on title verso; 35 woodcut text illustrations of distilling apparatus. [16], 149, [11] pages. Small 4to, later sheep gilt with red morocco lettering piece, later 19th-century onlaid gilt crest of George Farrar Rodwell on front cover, joints and extremities worn; contents browned, worming in outer corners, repaired on several leaves, causing occasional minor text loss. Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1609
Second edition of a work first published the year before on distillation, expanded from the relevant section of Porta's Magiae naturalis. Duveen, page 481, and Ferguson II, 216 cite the 1608 edition; Partington II, 24; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, page 1213 (1608 edition), and Bibliotheca Vinaria, 149. With the bookplate of Marcus Crahan (sale, 9 October 1984, lot 193).
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