Les secrets du S. Alexis Piemontois [pseud.?] i.e. Girolamo Ruscelli?]
Subtitle: divisez en six livres, reveuz de nouveau sur le dernier exemplaire italien, & augmentez d'un Livre de distillations, non par cy devant imprimé. Le tout reduit par lieux communs, pour plus facilement trouver chacune matiere en son rang & ordre
Contributors: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565
Series: French books before 1601 -- roll 264, item 9
Publisher: Benoist Rigaud
Published: 1589
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: fre
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 940
Subjects: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800; Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800; Precious stones -- Therapeutic use; Precious stones, Artificial
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: A reissue, with cancel title, of the sheets of the 1572 edition published in Lyons by Guillaume Roville. The original cancelland title, with identical wording apart from Roville's imprint, is present in this copy. On the verso, is the privilege granted to Roville in 1566. This mentions the Livre de distillations, here added as book 7 of the Secrets of Alexis. It is not found in Italian editions of the Secreti. According to Roville's letter to the reader dated 10 May 1572 on p. 14-15, the book with its illustrations, was found amongst the author's papers after his death, and forwarded to the publisher from Piedmont

Master microform held by: GmC

Microfilm. Cambridge, Mass., General Microfilm Company, 19--. 1 reel. 35 mm. (French books before 1601, roll 264, item 9)