Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets. Pt. III / by John Ferguson.
- John Ferguson
- Date:
- 1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets. Pt. III / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![3° Planets, goueming | the Natiuities of Children. | Also a Booke of the same Author I of the maruellous mamellous?) things of the | World, and of certaine effects | caused by certaine | Beasts. | Printed by W. laggard. 1617. It is a i6mo. Signatures A—H, in eights (ff. 64). Black letter, but the title, preface to the reader (A2), head-lines, headings of the sections, words and lines in the text, are roman. laggard’s translation compared with the other Latin copies exhibits some differences. Twenty years later the book again appeared. I take the title as given by William Cooper;' Albertus Magnus, his secrets of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones, Beasts, &c. Lend. 1637, 8. This book is not in the British Museum, and I have seen no copy of it elsewhere. The translation of the De Secretis Mitlierum was only executed last century. The title is given by Lowndes, and there is a copy in the British Museum from which I have taken it: De Secretis Mulierum: Or, The Mjrsteries of Human Generation Fully Revealed. Written in Latin by Albertvs Magnvs. Faithfully rendered into Englsh (r»V), with Explanatory Notes, and Approved by, the late, John Quincy. M.D. London: Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible, over against Catherine-street in the Strand. M.D.CC.XX.V. (Price 2s.) It is a small 8vo, pp. viii; account of the author, [4] j text, 108. This book seems to be not unknown to readers in the Museum, but it is not one from the perusal of vrtiich much, if any, profit can be got. The preceding list will give a notion of the number and variety of the editions of this book which passes under the name of Albertus. Allusion has been made repeatedly to a small German treatise on the arts, entitled Kunstbiichlein, of which the oldest version described belonged to 1531, and of which there were subsequent issues both in German and in Dutch. I can now add other two to the list. The first is in German, and is entitled Ettliche Kiinste, aujf mancherley wetsz Dinten vnd allerhand Farben zu bereyten. It is a small octavo volume, printed by Christian Muller at ' A Catalogiu of ChymUall Books, London, 1675, Part I.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22460688_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
