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[RUSCELLI, Girolamo.] ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT (pseud.?). Secreti del reverendo donno Alessio Piemontese. Venice: Sigismondo Bordogna, 1555.
4o (190 x 143mm). Roman and italic types, woodcut device (winged lion of St. Mark astride globe, holding open book), historiated woodcut capitals. (First three leaves remargined, title a bit soiled, minor spotting and marginal stains to a few leaves). Modern paper boards.
RARE FIRST EDITION of an enormously popular collection of recipes in practical medicine and pharmacology, widely reprinted in many languages. The purported author, Alexis of Piedmont, is otherwise unknown. The preface by Sansovino in Secreti nuovi di maravigliosa virtu i quali continouando e quelli di Donno Alessio (1567) ascribes the work to Girolamo Ruscelli. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica I, pp.22-23 (1568 edition); Ferguson Books of Secrets, III, 33-37; NLM/Durling 106; Partington II, 28-29; Thorndike VI, 215-216; Norman 1860.
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RARE FIRST EDITION of an enormously popular collection of recipes in practical medicine and pharmacology, widely reprinted in many languages. The purported author, Alexis of Piedmont, is otherwise unknown. The preface by Sansovino in Secreti nuovi di maravigliosa virtu i quali continouando e quelli di Donno Alessio (1567) ascribes the work to Girolamo Ruscelli. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica I, pp.22-23 (1568 edition); Ferguson Books of Secrets, III, 33-37; NLM/Durling 106; Partington II, 28-29; Thorndike VI, 215-216; Norman 1860.