The curious distillatory: or The art of distilling coloured liquors, spirits, oyls, &c. : from vegitables, animals, minerals and metals. A thing hitherto known by few. Containing many experiments easy to perform, yet curious, surprizing, and useful: relating to the production of colours, consistence, and heat, in divers bodies which are colourless, fluid, and cold. Together with several experiments upon the blood (and its serum) of diseased persons, with divers other collateral experiments. Written originally in Latin by Jo. Sigis. Elsholt. Put into English by T.S. M.D. Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty.
1677
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The curious distillatory: or The art of distilling coloured liquors, spirits, oyls, &c. : from vegitables, animals, minerals and metals. A thing hitherto known by few. Containing many experiments easy to perform, yet curious, surprizing, and useful: relating to the production of colours, consistence, and heat, in divers bodies which are colourless, fluid, and cold. Together with several experiments upon the blood (and its serum) of diseased persons, with divers other collateral experiments. Written originally in Latin by Jo. Sigis. Elsholt. Put into English by T.S. M.D. Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty.
Uniform title
Destillatoria curiosa. English
Created/published
London : Printed by J[ohn]. D[arby]. for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-head, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, 1677.
Description
[16], 111, [1] p. : ill. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund, 1623-1688. author.
Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678.
Cross, Thomas, 1645-1703, printmaker.
Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678.
Cross, Thomas, 1645-1703, printmaker.
Note
Translation, by Thomas Sherley, of: Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund. Destillatoria curiosa.
Printer's name from Wing CD.
With frontis. illustration (A1v) signed: Tho. Cross sculpsit.
Signatures: A-H⁸.
Printer's name from Wing CD.
With frontis. illustration (A1v) signed: Tho. Cross sculpsit.
Signatures: A-H⁸.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE blg title reads: "... minerals, ..."
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), E638
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R16178
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R16178
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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154- 260q
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: cropped, with loss of imprint; and affecting head- and direction-lines, frontis. Provenance: inscribed on last page: "W Bran"; bought by Folger from Robinson, 8 June 1955