Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies.

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Salmon, William, 1644-1713, Polygraphice, 1685

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644–1713
Title(s):: Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies.
Edition:: The 5th ed., enl. with above a thousand considerable additions. Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures; the like never yet extant. By William Salmon ...
Published/Created:: London, Printed for Thomas Passinger and Thomas Sawbridge, 1685.
Physical Description:: 33 p.., 767 p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7420 S2 1685
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/187236
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BAC : Frontispiece, added t.-p., and plates by W. Sherwin, Guil. Vaughan, F.H. Van Hove, and Tho. Crofts Junior.
Added t.-p., engraved.
Subject Terms:: Art -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Portrait painting.
Contributors:: Fabre, Pierre-Jean, d. ca. 1650.
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