Turner, Robert (1620-1665?)

Date:
1657
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About this work

Description

Collection of medical and technical 'secrets': followed by 'The theater of Nature treating of some magnetical cures, of the secret qualityes of herbes, stones, and chimicalls' (Incomplete). The 'Theater of Nature' begins on p. 69, but is incomplete, signed 'Ro. Turner. 3 August 1657. Christophers Alley in St. Martyns le grand.' It is almost certainly a contemporary copy, and may possibly be holograph. Produced in London.

Publication/Creation

1657

Physical description

1 volume
pp. 35-137 + 2 bl. leaves 4to. 191/2 ? 15 cm. Unbound. Ppage 1-34, 47-50, 55-66, 71-78, 119-122, 127-130 wanting: margins and corners frayed.

Biographical note

No record has been traced of the publication of this work: the author was an astrologer and botanist [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

Creator/production credits

Turner, Robert, 1620-1665?

Language note

In English.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

Location of original

Wellcome Library; GB.
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    MS.4867

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