GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf (1604-70). The Works ... containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchemy in the working of metallick mines and the separation of metals. London: by Thomas Milbourn, for the Author, 1689. 3 parts, 2° (341 x 226mm). 10 woodcut plates, additional title loosely inserted, second part with separate title, a few woodcut illustrations (lacking frontispiece, title soiled and quite crudely repaired along verso of inner gutter and lower corner, also closed tear on verso of title, additional title torn with loss, second plate lightly waterstained, upper corner of 4 plates repaired, lower corner of one plate repaired, one plate with closed tear just affecting image). Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with old spine relaid, worn, front enpaper detached). Provenance: armorial bookplate. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN ENGLISH. Ferguson I, 322; Duveen p. 260; Krivatsy 4769; Wellcome III, 124; Wing G845.