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091 $a4813/A (shelfmark)
100 1 $aHester, John,$d-1593.$0n 85311632.
245 14 $aThe secrets of physick and philosophy, divided into two bookes: in the first is shewed the true and perfect order to distill, or draw forth the oyles of all manner of gummes, spices, seedes, roots, and hearbs, with their perfect taste, smell and vertues. In the second is shewed the true and perfect order to prepare, calcine, sublime, and dissolve all manner of minerals, and how ye shall draw forth their oyles and salts ... for the health of mans bodie /$cFirst written in the German tongue by ... Theophrastus Paraselsus [sic], and now published in the English tongue, by John Hester.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by A. M[atthews for William Lugger],$c[1633]
300 $a11 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves, 196 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves ;$c(12mo)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia.
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier.
500 $aSTC 19182.
500 $aSudhoff 356, 184.
500 $aPt. 1 is "a loose paraphrase, not a translation" of Duchesne's De exquisita mineralium, animalium, & vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione & usu, perspicua tractatio. Pt. 2 probably is derived from Paracelsus. Cf. P. H. Kocher. John Hester, Paracelsan in Joseph Quincy Adams memorial studies, 1948, p. 629-630.
500 $aEarlier London editions (1575, 1580, 1596) were published under title: The key of philosophie. Also published anonymously in London in 1633 under title: A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets.
510 4 $aESTC$cS113991.
510 4 $aSTC (2nd ed.),$c19182.
591 00 $zCopy 1$eNote: Lacks first (blank?) leafFirst (blank?) leaf wanting.$9X159846.
650 7 $aMedicine.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01014893.
655 0 $aElectronic books.
700 1 $aDu Chesne, Joseph,$dapproximately 1544-1609.$tDe mineralium, animalium, et vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica preparatione et usu.$0n 86861987.
700 1 $aHermanni, Philippus.$0nr 93005278.
700 0 $aParacelsus,$d1493-1541.$0n 80120959.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
759 $adigukmhl.
759 $adigearly.
776 1 $iPrint version:$tThe secrets of physick and philosophy, divided into two bookes: in the first is shewed the true and perfect order to distill, or draw forth the oyles of all manner of gummes, spices, seedes, roots, and hearbs, with their perfect taste, smell and vertues. In the second is shewed the true and perfect order to prepare, calcine, sublime, and dissolve all manner of minerals, and how ye shall draw forth their oyles and salts ... for the health of mans bodie$w(OCoLC)14294854$w(UkLW)b11149759.
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