1 volume<br/>726 pages 8vo. 161/2 x 101/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

F., J. V. & W., J.

1 volume pp. 3-1126 + 10 bl. ll. + 5 ll. folio. 291/2 × 171/2 cm. Original calf binding repaired. Pp.1/2, 21-30, 105/106, 205-212, 279-284, 309/310, 471-478, 713/714, 1017-1020, 1077/1078 wanting: 8 ll. cut out after p. 1026. Pp. 1001-1084 are blank.

Receuil de médecine

18 unnumbered leaves, 440 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves, folded engr. plates : add. engr. title page, woodcut illustrations ; (12mo)

Antonii Neri Florentini, De arte vitraria libri septem / et eosdem Christophori Merretti observationes et notae. In quibus omne gemmarum artificialium, encaustorum et laccarum artificium explicatur.

1 volume<br/>1 l. + 134 pp. + 4 leaves last 2 blank. 4to. 191/2 x 141/2 cm. Modern boards. The lower corner of the title-page is defective. Illustrated by pen and wash drawings of alchemical apparatus, stills, etc.

Amatis, Philippus Jacobus Josephus de

1 volume<br/>282 pages + 15 folios. 8vo. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. On vellum. Modern stamped morocco binding. Some leaves are wanting between p. 258 and p. 259, as noted by the early 16th cent. owner who added the pagination.  The text on p. 76 has almost entirely faded, and in other passages the original text has been written over and partly restored by the same 16th cent. hand. Written in a small current humanistic hand, 39 lines to a page. Some headings in red-mostly faded. On pages 121, 126, 175 are small pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, and on page 276 a larger wash-drawing of a furnace ('stufa sicca et furnus philosophorum'). Last unpaginated leaf verso: tiriaca est a medicis appellata.

Alchemical and medical miscellany

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F., J. V. & W., J.

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Antonii Neri Florentini, De arte vitraria libri septem / et eosdem Christophori Merretti observationes et notae. In quibus omne gemmarum artificialium, encaustorum et laccarum artificium explicatur.

Amatis, Philippus Jacobus Josephus de

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F., J. V. & W., J.

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Antonii Neri Florentini, De arte vitraria libri septem / et eosdem Christophori Merretti observationes et notae. In quibus omne gemmarum artificialium, encaustorum et laccarum artificium explicatur.

Amatis, Philippus Jacobus Josephus de

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