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GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. - Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655. 8vo. Modern half cloth.

Title: Vera ac perfecta descriptio, qua ratione ex vini fecibus bonum plurimumque Tartarum sit extrahendum.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1655. 8vo. Modern half cloth.
Description: 28, [4 blank] pp.First edition of the Latin translation of a guide for making wine and spirits from fruits and vegetables, originally published in German a year earlier.Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670) was "the best practical chemist of his day" (DSB). In 1639 Glauber left his native Germany because of the disturbances of the Thirty Years' War and moved to Amsterdam where he "outfitted what was surely the most impressive laboratory in Europe" (DSB). He is particularly interesting because he stands between the chemists who deliberately followed alchemy and those who took a modern scientific approach. Browned along the extremities and some minor wear to the head of the title-page; a good copy.l BMN I, p. 528; Krivatsy 4790; Partington II, pp. 341-361, no. 8; Schoene, Bibl. zur geschichtes des Weines 12389; STCN (6 copies); for the author: DSB V, pp. 419-423.

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Price: EUR 750.00 = appr. US$ 815.14 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V.
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