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Io. Bap. Portae Neapolitani De distillatione lib. IX : quibus certa methodo, multiplici[que] artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuius libet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfectè docetur.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, author.
- Standardized Title:
- De distillatione
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Distillation--Early works to 1800.
- Chemistry--Early works to 1800.
- Essences and essential oils--Early works to 1800.
- Distillation apparatus--Early works to 1800.
- Chemistry.
- Distillation.
- Distillation apparatus.
- Essences and essential oils.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- [20], 154, [6] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Jo. Bap. Portae Neapolitani De distillatione lib. IX
- De distillatione lib. IX
- De distillatione libri IX
- Fingerprint:
- **** imt, sure qumo (3) 1608 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Romae : Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apostolicae, MDCVIII [1608]
- Notes:
- The first edition. Second edition published in Strasbourg 1609 under title: De distillationibus libri IX. See Ferguson, Duveen.
- Date appears before printer's name in imprint.
- Colophon on leaf V4v reads: Romae. Ex Typographia Reu Camerae Apostolicae. M. DC. VIII. Superiorum permissu.
- Signatures: [maltese cross]⁴ 2[maltese cross]⁶ A-V⁴.
- Engraved portrait of the author by Giacomo Lauro.
- Woodcut devices (title vignette and at colophon), illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Type ornament head-pieces.
- Author's dedicatory epistle dated Neapoli 20. Iulij 1604.
- Includes dedications to the author in Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, Persian, Illyrian, and Armenian, with Latin translations of the epigrams.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy has tear in tail margin of leaf A2.
- Cited in:
- Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, p. 216 note
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 369
- Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 481
- Simon, A.L. Bib. gastronomica, 1213
- OCLC:
- 18786987
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