Quesnot. Plusieurs secrets rares et curieux. 1708
QUESNOT. Plusieurs secrets rares et curieux, pour la guérison des maladies, pour la metallique, l'oeconomique, et les teintures; la médecine du Floscoeli; et autres curiositez.
Paris, Pierre Auboin, Loüis Pilorget, Claude Jombert & Nicolas Aubert, 1708.
750 €
12mo (16.1x9 cm), (18)-285-(3) pages. binding: Contemporary full brown speckled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. Headcap chipped, two corners bumped.
First edition of this curious work of medical and spagyric receipt.
The Foes coeli is a vapor that leaves the center of the earth, to the area, which takes many forms depending on the available pore through which it passes, ..., and when distilled, give the universal medicine for all diseases (Dorbon).
references: Dorbon [3831], Caillet [III, 9041].
provenance: Jules Régnaude (ownership inscription).
