The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choisest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation : being partly taken out of the most select chymicall authors of severall languages, and partly out of the authors manuall experience : together with the description of the chiefest furnaces and vessels used by ancient, and moderne chymists : also, a discourse of divers spagyrical experiments and curiosities, and of the anatomy of gold and silver, with the chiefest preparations, and curiosities thereof, and vertues of them all : all which are contained in six books / composed by John French ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, John, 1616-1657.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distillation--Early works to 1800.

Distillation.

Chemistry--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Penn Provenance:

Institute of Chemistry Library (stamp)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Art of distillation

Treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation

Of the art of distillation

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Richard Cotes, and are to be sold by Thomas Williams ..., 1651.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴ *⁴ [par.]⁴ B-2E⁴.

Numerous woodcut illustrations; woodcut headpieces and initials.

Errata on recto of last leaf.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) F2169

ESTC R202026

OCLC:

11754725