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<dl><dd>Two states are noted. State 1 has pages misnumbered as follows: p. 113 misnumbered 120; p. 120 misnumbered 113; p. 129 misnumbered 131; p. 385-392 misnumbered 381-388. In state 2, the first 2 errors have been corrected</dd>
<dd>Signatures: pi1 2pi1 C² D-3I⁴</dd>
<dd>Title page vignette; title in red and black ink within a double-ruled border; head- and tailpieces; initials</dd>
<dd>Added engraved title page has title "Natural magick, in xx bookes," and imprint: R Gaywood fecit Lond. 1658; contains a portrait of the author</dd>
<dd>Originally published in 4 books in Naples, 1558. Extended to 20 books, Naples, 1559. Cf. Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica</dd>
<dd>Illustrated throughout with small woodcuts</dd>
<dd>Contents (fromt title page): ... : 1 Of the causes of wonderful things. 2 Of the generation of animals. 3 Of the production of new plants. 4 Of increasing houshold-stuff. 5 Of changing metals. 6 Of counterfeiting gold. 7 Of the wonders of the load-stone. 8 Of strange cures. 9 Of beautifying women. 10 Of distillation. 11 Of perfuming. 12 Of artificial fires. 13 Of tempering steel. 14 Of cookery. 15 Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &amp;c. 16 Of invisible writing. 17 Of strange glasses. 18 Of statick experiments. 19 Of pneumatick experiments. 20 Of the Chaos</dd>
<dd>Wing (2nd ed.)</dd>
<dd>Toole-Stott, R. Conjuring</dd>
<dd>Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica</dd>
<dd>ESTC</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in tan library cloth. This copy displays the typographical peculariaties ascribed to variant 1, described in greater detail elsewehere in this record</dd>
<dd>7910a.5: The original Latin is on shelf-number *7969.5</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Science; Industrial arts; Magnetism; Magic tricks; Alchemy</div>
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<dl><dd>Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615</dd>
<dd>Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, engraver</dd>
<dd>Young, Thomas, active 1658, publisher</dd>
<dd>Speed, Samuel, -1681, publisher</dd></dl></div>
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