The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containyng excellente remedies against diverse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. A woorke well approved, verie profitable and necessarie for every man. Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the firste edition
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Type of record: Book
Title: The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containyng excellente remedies against diverse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. A woorke well approved, verie profitable and necessarie for every man. Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the firste edition
Other titles: Secreti
Classmark: Early Science 3 1578 ALE
Creator(s): Alessio Piemontese
Additional creator(s): Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565) (Other); Androse, Richard (Other); Ward, William (1534-1609) (Other)
Publisher: Imprinted by Jhon Kyngston, for Jhon Wight
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1578-1580
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 parts in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243851
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014748549705181
Description
Collected edition of parts 1-4, which in these translations were first published separately in 1558, 1560, 1562, and 1569, respectively.
Alessio Piemontese is a pseudonym, possibly of Girolamo Ruscelli.
Parts 2-4 have special title pages: The seconde parte of the Secrets... Imprinted by Henry Bynneman, for John Wyght; The third and last part ... Imprinted by Thomas Dawson, for John Wyght, 1578; A verye excellent and profitable booke ... [Of the fourth and last part ...] Translated out of the Italian into Englishe, by Richard Androse ... Imprinted by John Wyght, 1578.
Indexed in: STC 298, 303, 307, 310.
Additional description
Last four leaves of vol.4 missing supplied as 8 photocopied pages
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