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The art of distillation: or, A treatise of the choicest spagyrical preparations, experiments, and curiosities, performed by way of distillation. : Together with the description of the choicest furnaces and vessels used by ancient and modern chymists and the anatomy of gold and silver; with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof; together with their vertues. In six books

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1667.
Call number: 433707
Creator: French, John (1616-1657)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
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