Collection of six works mainly concerning iatrochemistry, chemistry for healing purposes, by Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670), "the best practical chemist of his day" (DSB). The present Latin editions were published more or less simultaneously with the original German ones.
The first is a medical handbook for seamen, recommending the use of hydrochloric acid (oleum salis) for a long list of illnesses; the second a guide for making wine and spirits from fruits and vegetables; the third a treatise on the universal medicine (aurum potabile), which he then believed to be nitre (saltpetre); the fourth the continuation to his Miraculi mundi, where he begins to recognize the medical significance of what we now know as Glauber's salt; this last notion is elaborated in the two concluding treatises.
With a 1661 owner's inscription on the flyleaf. Some occasional minor foxing, the three plates trimmed very close, shaving the illustration, and a tiny stain on the fore-edge, but still in good condition. Binding with a couple wormholes in the spine and a small part of the hinges damaged, otherwise in very good condition. Ad 1: Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica I, p. 387; Partington II, pp. 341-361, 14; STCN 093393113 (6 copies); ad 2: BMN I, p. 528; Partington II, pp. 341-361, 8; STCN 090947673 (6 copies); ad 3: Partington II, pp. 341-361, 15; STCN 090948327 (4 copies); ad 4: BMN I, p. 528; Partington II, pp. 341-361, 6; STCN 091062357 (4 copies); cf. STCN 24058578X (1 copy, same edition other typesetting); ad 5: Partington II, pp. 341-361, 16; STCN 091061997 (5 copies); ad 6: Partington II, pp. 341-361, 17; STCN 090948556 (4 copies); cf. for the author: DSB V, pp. 419-423.