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A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, : divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1651.
Call number: 303011
Creator: Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604-1670)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
Associated people: French, John, (1616-1657.)
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