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Book/Printed Material The secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont.

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Title

  • The secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont. : Containing excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approued, very profitable and necessarie for euerye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition / Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde.

Names

  • Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.
  • Ward, William, 1534-1609, translator.
  • Hall, Rowland, -1563, printer.
  • Denham, Henry, -1589?, printer.
  • England, Nicholas, active 1557-1568, bookseller.
  • Wight, John, -1589, bookseller.
  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Prynted at London : by Ronland Hall, for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater noster rowe, 1562-[66]

Headings

  • -  Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
  • -  Pharmacy--Early works to 1800
  • -  Formulas, recipes, etc
  • -  England--London

Notes

  • -  Each pt. has special t.p. and separate pagination. Title varies slightly. Pt. 2: dated 1563 : pt. 3 H. Denham for J. Wyght.
  • -  Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640, 296, 301, 306.
  • -  English Short Title Catalogue, S121372
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1233
  • -  LC copy imperfect: Lacks sig A₆ I₃,₇ ₈ and L₂ of pt. 1 sig A₂, D₂, G₇, H₅ and M₁, ₃ of pt. 2 sig. D₃, F₂, ₄ H₈ and M₄ of pt. 3.
  • -  LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
  • -  LAC scc 2019-01-09 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 3 pts. in 1 v. ; 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RS87 .R92 1562a

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 49043522

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Chicago citation style:

Ruscelli, Girolamo, -Approximately 1565, Rowland Hall, Henry Denham, Nicholas England, John Wight, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. The secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont.: Containing excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approued, very profitable and necessarie for euerye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition/ Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde. translateds by Ward, William, Lator [Prynted at London: by Ronland Hall, for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater noster rowe, -66, 1562] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/49043522/.

APA citation style:

Ruscelli, G., Hall, R., Denham, H., England, N., Wight, J., Levis, H. C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1562) The secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont.: Containing excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approued, very profitable and necessarie for euerye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition/ Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde. Ward, W., trans [Prynted at London: by Ronland Hall, for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater noster rowe, -66] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/49043522/.

MLA citation style:

Ruscelli, Girolamo, -Approximately 1565, et al. The secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont.: Containing excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approued, very profitable and necessarie for euerye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition/ Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde. trans by Ward, William, Lator [Prynted at London: by Ronland Hall, for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater noster rowe, -66, 1562] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/49043522/>.