PORTA (B.): De Distillationibus libri IX quibus certa method - Lot 158

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PORTA (B.): De Distillationibus libri IX quibus certa method - Lot 158
PORTA (B.): De Distillationibus libri IX quibus certa methodo, multiplicique artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cujus libet mixti in propria elementa resolutio perfecte docétur...Strasbourg, Zetzner, 1609. In-8 bradel de cartonnage marbré moderne (qq restaurations à la page de titre, papier un peu bruni et roussi). titre avec beau portrait gravé au verso, 1 ff blanc, 7 ff., 149 pp., 5 ff. d'index. Second edition as rare as the first one (published in Rome the previous year). Portrait of the author engraved on copper by J. van der Heiden and surrounded by alchemical objects and numerous figures engraved on the back. wood in the text: stoves, horns, apparatus, machines and instruments, some of which are zoomorphic.
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