Jo. Sig. Elsholtii Destillatoria curiosa; sive, Ratio ducendi liquores coloratos per alembicum, hactenus si non ignota, certe minus observata atque cognita
By: Accedunt Utis Udenii & Guerneri Rolfincii Non-entia chymica
Contributors: Wedel, Georg Wolffgang, 1645-1721; Rolfinck, Werner, 1599-1673; Crahan, Marcus
Publisher: Typis Rungianis, impensis Ruperti Volcheri.
Published: 1674
Place of publication: Berolini [i.e. Berlin]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Chemistry; Distillation; Materia medica; Vegetable Materia medica; Medical Botany; Medicinal plants
Other titles: Destillatoria curiosa.; Ratio ducendi liquores coloratos per alembicum, hactenus si non ignota, certe minus observata atque cognita.
Notes: Roman numeral date in imprint made with backwards C's.

Udenius was the pseudonym of Georg Wolffgang Wedel.

"Non-entia chymica", p. [95]-176, has divisional title page.

"Utis Udenii Non-entia chymica, sive Catalogus eorum operum, operationumque chymicarum, quae, cum non sint in rerum natura, nec esse possint, magno tamen cum strepitu à vulgo chymicorum passim circumferuntur, & orbi obtruduntur", p. [99]-140, has separate divisional title page, and is a reprinting of Non-entia chymica, which was first printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1606.

"Guerneri Rolfincii, Chimiae in artis formam redactae, liber VI", p. [141]-176, has separate caption title, and is a reprinting of book 6 of Chimiae in artis formam redactae, which was first printed in Jena, 1669.

Elsholtz's work includes several references to drugs from the Americas mentioning their origins in Brazil, Mexico, and the Guianas. He also cites Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus / by Francisco Hernandez, which was first printed in Rome, 1628.

Signatures: A⁶ (A1, A2, and A3 missigned A2, A3, and A4) (A1 verso blank) ²A⁸ B-L⁸ (F8 verso blank)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials.

NLM. 17th century, 3640.

Sallander, H. Bib. Walleriana, 11122.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 674/52.