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De mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque

Albertus Magnus, Saint (1193?-1280)

1569

Includes index.

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Querelae & opprobria ventriculi, sive, Prosopopoiia ejusdem naturalia sua sibi vendicantis & abusus tam diaeteticos, quam pharmaceuticos perstringentis

Swalve, Bernhard (1625-1680)

1664

Added, engraved t.p., illustrated, with title: Ventriculi querelae et opprobria.

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The naturall and experimental history of winds, &c

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Gentilis, Robert (1590-1654)

1653

Originally intended to form a part of the author's Instauratio magna, a work which was not completed. Cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue, new ed. With 16-page publisher's list of 140 books at end. R. G. is ...

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Institutiones chimicæ prodromæ, id est, Joannis Joachimi Becheri... Oedipus chimicus obscuriorum terminorum & principiorum chimicorum, mysteria aperiens & resolvens : Opusculum, omnibus medicinæ & chimiæ studiosis, lectu perquam utile & necessarium

Becher, Johann Joachim (1635-1682)

1664

"There were two editions of this book in 1664, one of which appeared at Amsterdam and the other one at Frankfurt... It may be supposed that the Frankfurt edition is the original and the Amsterdam edit...

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D. Alexii Pedemontani De secretis libri sex mira quadam varietate referti

Alessio Piemontese; Wecker, Johann Jacob (1528-1586); Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565)

1561

Pagination irregular.

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Opuscule tres-eccellent, de la vraye philosophie naturelle des metaulx : traictant de l'augmentation & parfection d'iceulx, avec advertissement d'eviter les folles despéces qui se font ordinairement par faulte de vraye science

Zacaire, Denis (1510-1556); Bernard, of Trevisan

1568

For the work here ascribed to Bernardus Trevirensis (or Trevisanus), cf. Lynn Thorndike, A history of magic and experimental science, v. 3 (1934) p. 619.

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