Iacobi Bessoni De absoluta ratione extrahendi olea, & aquas è medicamentis simplicibus : accepta olim à quodam empirico, postea uero ab eodem Bessono locupletata, & rationibus experime[n]tisq[ue] confirmata, liber

Besson, Jacques, Dauphinois, Gessner, Andreas, 1513-1559, printer · 1559 · Tiguri : Apud Andream Gesnerum Iuniorem · 12 pictures

A 1559 Latin treatise on distilling oils and waters from simple medicines, written by the French writer Jacques Besson and printed in Zurich by Andreas Gesner the Younger, aimed at physicians and apothecaries. Its pictures are small woodcut initial letters, each a framed block with a decorative capital, some with figures or animals filling the space around the letter, offering a designer a range of compact, hand-cut ornamental frames.

Distillation · Essences and essential oils · Oils, Volatile

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