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Les secrets du S. Alexis Piemontois : divisez en six livres ; ausquels auons adjoint autres secrets de nouueau ... ; & les receptes de divers auteurs ..

Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565 · 1559 · A Anvers : De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin · 3 pictures

A 1559 French-language collection of medicinal and alchemical recipes called Les secrets du S. Alexis Piemontois, compiled by Girolamo Ruscelli and printed by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp for apothecaries and general readers. Its pictures are mostly dense letterpress pages: a table of contents with running lists of substances, a large decorated initial letter with ornate foliage, and a title page set in mixed roman and italic capitals with a central printer's device.

Medicine · Pharmacy · Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions · Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800

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