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GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565)

Lot 157
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1514351
Lot 157 | GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
GESNER, Conrad (1516-1565)
A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Euonymus. London: John Day, (1565).
Second English edition of Gesner’s treatise on the art of distillation: no copy on the market in 20 years (RBH/ABSA). In 1552, Gessner's De remediis secretis appeared in Latin under the pseudonym Euonymus Philiater. It contained practical knowledge from the areas of medicine, botany and chemistry and quickly attained enormous popularity, being many times reprinted, and translated into German, French and Italian as well as English. The first English edition appeared in 1559, translated by the recently-returned Marian exile, clergyman and Fellow of Magdalen Peter Morwen. STC (2nd ed.) 11801; Wellcome 2800.

Quarto (177 x 130mm). Collation: [maltese cross]² A-B⁴ ²B-Y⁴ Aa-Yy⁴ AA-HH⁴ (ESTC appears to provide an errant collation; the present copy collates as per the copy digitised on EEBO from the University of Illinois); mistakes in pagination throughout. Woodcut text illustrations, armorial device of the Stationers' Guild on B4v, head- and tailpieces, and initials (lacking 10 leaves [Ss3-4 and eight at the end], title darkened and a little stained, further marginal staining). Early 17th-century calf (rebacked, endleaves rehinged, worn). Provenance: Tho[mas] Browne (16th-century ownership inscription on title and annotations on title and in certain margins); James Gilbert (17th-century ownership inscription with price on front free endleaf); James Roberts Brown (1838-1905, author; his ownership inscription on front free endleaf); Albert John Chalmers (British colonial physician and pioneer in tropical medicine research, 1870-1920; bookplate and plate recording bequest from Mrs Chalmers in the year of his death, to:) – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamp on upper endleaf and other leaves, and ‘31941’ in ink on title).
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