Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature, being the summe and substance of naturall philosophy, methodically digested / First designed by John Wecker and now much augmented and inlarged by Dr. R. Read. [Translated by William Rowland] ; a like work never before in the English tongue.

  • Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586.
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1660
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Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature, being the summe and substance of naturall philosophy, methodically digested / First designed by John Wecker and now much augmented and inlarged by Dr. R. Read. [Translated by William Rowland] ; a like work never before in the English tongue. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : printed for S. Miller, 1660.

Physical description

4 unnumbered leaves, 346 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves : engr. frontispiece (portraits), woodcuts, illustrations ; (folio)

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/96/43

Notes

Added t.p., illus. and engr.: Secrets of art and nature
Translated from Latin. Cf. British Museum catalogue

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Wing W 1236
ESTC R12839
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W1236

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