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Alchimia - Medicina - Ruscelli, Girolamo
De' secreti [...] reprinted again ... and again added the fourth part with its Tables arranged in order, 1628
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€ 150 - 250
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Venice, Pietro Miloco, 1628. In 12°. 4 parts in 1 vol. each with its own title page. Typographic brand on the title pages, initials engraved in wood, light browning, some foxing, coeval vellum binding, manuscript title on the back, slight defects. Paper ex libris on the inside cover.
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Under the pseudonym of Alessio Piemontese, the polygrapher Girolamo Ruscelli (Viterbo 1518?), a prolific intellectual with multiple interests, published the alchemical and technological cookbook which met with enormous success and was reprinted and translated into numerous languages for over two centuries. In the letter to the readers responsible for the Secrets, the author presents himself as an over eighty-year-old scholar who, devoured by the remorse of having indirectly caused the death of a man suffering from stone disease, has decided to reveal the secrets of his science. Caillet 177, Vicaire 12-13, Westbury 8, Graesse 168.
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