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Glauber, Johann Rudolf

The Works... containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy... translated into English... by Christopher Packe. London: Thomas Milbourn, 1689

Folio (353 x 224 mm). Woodcut initials and headpieces, list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece, 10 woodcut and engraved plates (including frontispiece); occasional browning and staining, several amateurish tape repairs, a few margins worn. Contemporary calf; rebacked, worn.

First edition in English, containing nearly all of Glauber's works, prepared by Christopher Packe from the Latin edition, rather than the original German. The list of subscribers includes Robert Boyle as well as physicians, apothecaries and booksellers.

REFERENCES

ESTC R21872; Hoover 367; Wing G-845

PROVENANCE

Thomas Edes (signatures dated 1688 on title) — Jonathan Hawkins (inscription “Bought of Mr. Edes by Jno. Hawkins Sbr(?) 28^th 1689” on title) — Rufus A. David, MD (pencil signature on front free endpaper, his? occasional pencil marginalia)