The compleat chymical dispensatory, in five books:. treating of all sorts of metals, precious stones, and minerals, of all vegetables and animals, and things that are taken from them, as musk, civet, &c. how rightly to know them, and how they are to be used in physick; with their several doses. The like work never extant before. Being very proper for all merchants, druggists, chirurgions, and apothecaries; and such ingenious persons as study physick or philosophy. Written in Latin, by Dr. John Schroder, that most famous and faithful chymist. And Englished, by William Rowland, Dr. of physick. Who translated, Hippocrates, Riverius, platerus, Sennertus, Rulandus, Crato, and Bartholinus.
Schroeder, John, 1600-1664
Category
Books
Date
1669
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077611
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 283, [1], 385-545, [13] p. ;. fol. Accession no. 3791. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: signature on titlepage of M. Caithness [d.1691]. Binding: contemporary English red morocco, gilt panel design on covers with royal arms; spine lettered directly and gilt. Edges gilt, comb-marbled paper on pastedown only.
Makers and roles
Schroeder, John, 1600-1664 Rowland, William, tr