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A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Evonymvs : containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & destill Medicines, for the conseruation of helth, as quintessence : Aurum Potabile, Hyppocras, aromaticall wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes, garnishing waters & other manifold excellent confections ... / translated (with great dilligence, & labour) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felowe of Magdaline Colledge in Oxforde : wherunto is added a profitable table or Index for the better finding of al such waters as serue aswel for medicines, as also for the principal matters or other, conteyned in the booke.

Accession number
PML 38771
Creator
Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
Published
Imprinted at London : By Iohn Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saynt Martines, Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis June 1, 1565.
Credit line
Purchased in 1946.
Notes
First published in Latin, Tiguri, 1554; first ed. in English, 1559.
Second ed.--(STC 11801).
Translated by Peter Morwen, Morwent or Morwinge (1530?-1537?).
Description
10 prelim. leaves, 408, [15] p. : ill.
Inscriptions/Markings
Provenance notes in various hands on flyleaf. Occasional manicules.
Provenance
Henry Cunliffe (1826-1897), armorial bookplate and literary and bibliographical annotations, through inheritance to: Sir Robert Neville Cunliffe (1884-1949), armorial bookplate (by J.F. Badeley, 1926); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at the Cunliffe sale, 15 May 1946, lot 217.
Binding
Modern vellum.
Classification
Department