Author: Plat, Sir Hugh.
Title: DIVERS CHIMICALL CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING THE ART OF DISTILLATION. Diverse Chemical Conclusions Concerning the Art of Distillation.]
Description: [NP]: Herb Lovers Book Club, 1941. First Modern Edition, a Facsimile of the Peter Short 1594 edition. Quarter bound in cloth and marbled boards; A FINE COPY. One of the three selections making up Plat's The Jewel-house of Art and Nature. New foreword by Roberta Clarkson, the owner of the original edition, in which she gives a brief biographical and bibliographical account of Hugh Plat. Five alchemical illustrations en texte. 47 pages. Small octavo.

Keywords: alchemy Hermetica herbals distillation history of chemistry