Title Secreti. English

The secrets of Alexis : containing many excellent remedies against divers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings. A worke well approved, very necessarie for every man. Newly corrected and amended, and also somewhat more enlarged in certaine places, which wanted in former editions.

Imprint

London : Printed by William Stansby for Richard Meighen and Thomas Iones and are to be sold at their shop ..., 1615.

Title Page

Title Page Part 2

Title Page Part 3

Title Page Part 4

Title Page Part 5

Location	Call Number	Status
Stauffer Rare Book Room	RS125 .A44713 1615	LIB USE ONLY

Description	[12] p, 348 l. (i. e. 696 p.), [14] p. : 19 cm.
Note	Parts 1-3 translated from Italian into English by William Ward; parts 4-5 translated by Richard Androse. Cf. Section titles.
	Signatures: A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4.
	Includes index.
	In English.
	Leaves 16, 89, 93, 97, 115, 191, 198, and 242 misnumbered 17, 59, 63, 67, 108, 125, 197, and 250 respectively.
	Printer's device on t. p.
	Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
	Includes index: [14] leaves at end.
	Section title pages dated 1614.
	Alessio was considered by some a pseudonym for Girolamo Ruscelli, but there is no evidence for this association. Cf. Ferguson, J. Bib. Chemica, 1906.
Indexed In	Neville, R. G., Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, volume 1, page 29
Gift	Roy G. Neville; purchase; 2004.
Provenance	Provenance: Owner's inscriptions in black ink, in different hands, on verso of front free endpaper.
Subject(s)	Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
	Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
	Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
	Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
	Pharmaceutical chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
	Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
	Distillation -- Early works to 1800.
	Perfumes -- Early works to 1800.
	Cosmetics -- Early works to 1800.
Alternate Author	Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565. supposed author.
	Ward, William, tr.
	Androse, Richard, active 16th century, tr.