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ALESSIO Piemontese [pseud. of Girolamo Ruscelli]. The Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont: contayning excellente remedies against diverse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures ... Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Willyam Warde. London: John Kyngston for John Wight, 1580 - [The second part] John Kyngston for John Wight, n.d. - [The third and last part], Thomas Dawson for John Wyght, 1578. -- Issued with: A verye excellent and profitable booke conteyning six hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines ... which he termeth the fourth and finall Booke of his Secretes ... translated out of Italian ... by Richard Androse. For John Wight, 1678.
4 volumes in 1, small 4° in 8s (175 x 135 mm.). Titles with woodcut vignettes or publisher's device. (Some headlines cropped; clean tear in first 02; tear in blank margin of second I2; tears in final leaf X4 repaired on verso, hardly affecting letters.) 18th-century calf (rebacked).
5th edition of the first and second part, 4th edition of the third and second edition of the last part. COMPLETE SETS ARE RARE. STC 298; 303; 307; 310; Ferguson, Secrets III 36-37; Wellcome Catalogue I does not have this edition; Caillet describing the French and Italian editions only, as 'fort rare de ces fameux secrets'.
4 volumes in 1, small 4° in 8s (175 x 135 mm.). Titles with woodcut vignettes or publisher's device. (Some headlines cropped; clean tear in first 02; tear in blank margin of second I2; tears in final leaf X4 repaired on verso, hardly affecting letters.) 18th-century calf (rebacked).
5th edition of the first and second part, 4th edition of the third and second edition of the last part. COMPLETE SETS ARE RARE. STC 298; 303; 307; 310; Ferguson, Secrets III 36-37; Wellcome Catalogue I does not have this edition; Caillet describing the French and Italian editions only, as 'fort rare de ces fameux secrets'.