Two states are noted. State 1 has pages misnumbered as follows: p. 113 misnumbered 120; p. 120 misnumbered 113; p. 129 misnumbered 131; p. 385-392 misnumbered 381-388. In state 2, the first 2 errors have been corrected

Signatures: pi1 2pi1 C² D-3I⁴

Title page vignette; title in red and black ink within a double-ruled border; head- and tailpieces; initials

Added engraved title page has title "Natural magick, in xx bookes," and imprint: R Gaywood fecit Lond. 1658; contains a portrait of the author

Originally published in 4 books in Naples, 1558. Extended to 20 books, Naples, 1559. Cf. Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica

Illustrated throughout with small woodcuts

Contents (fromt title page): ... : 1 Of the causes of wonderful things. 2 Of the generation of animals. 3 Of the production of new plants. 4 Of increasing houshold-stuff. 5 Of changing metals. 6 Of counterfeiting gold. 7 Of the wonders of the load-stone. 8 Of strange cures. 9 Of beautifying women. 10 Of distillation. 11 Of perfuming. 12 Of artificial fires. 13 Of tempering steel. 14 Of cookery. 15 Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &c. 16 Of invisible writing. 17 Of strange glasses. 18 Of statick experiments. 19 Of pneumatick experiments. 20 Of the Chaos

Wing (2nd ed.)

Toole-Stott, R. Conjuring

Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica

ESTC

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in tan library cloth. This copy displays the typographical peculariaties ascribed to variant 1, described in greater detail elsewehere in this record

7910a.5: The original Latin is on shelf-number *7969.5

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