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• Title:[Works. English. 1689]
  The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber ; containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals ; also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth ... / Translated into English, and published for publick good by the labour, care, and charge, of Christopher Packe ... --
  
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• Author/Creator:Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Sinclair, Hugh M. (Hugh Macdonald), 1910-1990, former owner
  Packe, Christopher, active 1670-1711.
  Sondheimer, Franz, (bookplate)
  William C. Gibson History of Medicine and Science Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed by Thomas Milbourn, for the author, and are to be sold at his house ..., by D. Newman ..., and W. Cooper ..., 1689.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Memorial medium oversizeWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QD27 .G6 1689
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Chemistry--Early works to 1800.
  Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
  Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
  
• Description:6 preliminary leaves, 440, [4], 220, 92, [11] pages frontispiece, plates.
  
• Notes:In 3 parts, each with separate paging; pt. 2 has special t.p.: The second part of Glauber's Works : The first century, or, Wealthy store-house of treasures : being a general appendix to all his hitherto-published writings ...
  Includes index.