[Distillation]. Brunschwig, Hieronymus. Das Buch zu Distilieren die zusamen gethonen Ding. Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1532. In 2nd (293 x 195 mm); [8], 280 papers. Large woodcut on title page and about 150 woodcut figures in text (upper margin of some papers restored with some letter loss, restoration to a few text papers with some loss, lack at white corner of last paper that is lined, other defects). New binding on wooden boards integrating part of the original sow's skin with plates. Third edition of the "großen Destillierbuches." Figures derive in part from Reisch's "Margarita philosophica" of 1504 and illustrations by Baldung Grien. Sigerist: "A gigantic work far more than a mere book on destillation, a manual rather of pharmacological therapeutics."

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