Banister, John

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets. Teaching to distill all manner of oyles from gummes, spices, seedes, rootes, hearbs, and mineralls, &c. With their severall vertues out of sundry approved authors. London: by Thomas Harper, [1633]
paper, ink, leather

4to (188 x 133 mm). Some minor spotting a some short closed tears in margins repaired. Modern limp vellum.

Literature

STC 19182.5

Catalogue Note

Instructions for the distillation of numerous oils and "the ordering and preparing of all Mettals, Minerals, Allumes, Salts, and such like: for medicines both inwardly and outwardly..."