The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of the herbes in this present volume expressed, with the fygures of the stillatoryes to that noble worke belongynge
By: fyrst made and compyled by the thirtye yeres studye and labour of the moste famous and expert master of phisyke, Master Jherom bruynswyke, in hye Almayne : and nowe of late newly translated into Englysshe out of duche by me Laurence andrew to the synguler, profyte, helth and cure, of myn euyn crysten in theyr diseases, and in especyall for them of thys noble royalme of Englonde, my natyfe contrey : ye shall understande that the great master Avycenna testifyeth in his fourth canon that the waters be farre better than the herbes in theyr operacyons
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1854
Publisher: Laurence Andrew
Published: 1530
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Distillation; Early works to 1800; Distillation apparatus; Herbs; Medical Botany; Pharmacy; Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Work titles: Liber de arte distillandi
Notes: Signatures: ...⁴ a-b⁶ c-d⁴ e-f⁶ A-B⁴ C-S⁶.⁴ T⁴ V⁶ X⁴.

First three words of title are xylographic; t.-p. in red and black.

Place of publication and printer from colophon.

Colophon: [in verse]: A.M. CCCCC. & full seuen and twenty The yere of cryste was, by trewe computacyon Whan this presente boke, was ended fynally by me Laurence andrew, toke his translacyon Whyche is of herbes, the perfyte dystyllacyon Newly corrected, of that, that was a mys Inprynted in flete strete, without adulacyon Cum gracia, illustrissimi regis.

Large cut of distilling apparatus on t.-p.; full-page cut of Christ with disciples (first used in Verard's L'art de bien mourir, 1492) on verso of t.-p.; printer's mark (McK. 74B) on verso of X⁴.

"This third edition ... was apparently printed about 1530, but certainly after 17 March 1529, the date of 'The grete herball' of Peter Treveris, as many of the woodcuts common to both books are here in more worn condition."--Quaritch cat. no. 369, April 1922, item 548.

A translation of a German version of: Liber de arte distillandi.

STC (2nd ed.) 13437.