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(Esoterica) - Ens. 3 ouvr. en 1 vol. in-8° - ROSSELLO, Timoteo.- Della summa de’ secreti universali in ogni materia. Si per huomini & donne, di alto ingegno, come’ ancora per medici, & ogni sorte di artefici industriosi, & a ogni persona virtuosa accomodate’ [- Parte seconda. Ne i quali si contengono i rimedii utili alle infermita, & altre bellissime cose’, ingeniose, & artificiose’, come nella tavola potrai vedere’]. Venetia, Giacomo Cornetti, 1588. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-8° : [8]-152, [8]-152 lvs (rare stains, ms. provenance on the title-page, small foxing, rare marginal perforations, some browned lvs, small tears in the upper margins in the middle of the vol., light marginal dampstain in the beginning of vol. II, some lvs very fresh). 17th century binding : marbled sheepskin, boards encircled with a gilt roll-stamp, flat spine with gilt fillets and red leather label (small scratches or small parts slightly rubbed, small repair at the upper turn in, flyleaves renewed). VERY RARE AND INTERESTING WORK gathering more than 1.300 natural preparations for medical, cosmetic, everyday, etc. uses, a.o. : "miracle" water to cure leper, oil and sirup against the plague, scorpion oil, pomade for the syphilis or "male francese", unguents against nerves, legs pains and cataract, pill to stay in good health, perfumes (for bedrooms in times of plague, benzoin, appel and cinnamon oils), water to have blond hair or to remove hairs, recepes to make colours (blue, green...), milled gold to write, glues, candles burning into water, to dye leather and to remove stains. Illustrated with 1 texto representing a "sigilla hermetis", text decorated with ornemental initials and printer's device figuring a rose with the motto "Dabo omnibus gratum odorem". The two parts of the work have two different dedicatees : the archdeacon of Ragusa Mario Chaboga (part I) and the noble man from Padova Giovanni Battista Romano (part II). # USTC 853502; # EDIT 16 25066; # Adams R-804 et 805 (ed. 1575 and 1580); # Caillet 9602 (undated ed. in 2 vol. in-8°); # Wellcome I-5573 (ed. 1561); # Durling 3948 (ed. 1574-1575, bound with a 1574 ed. of Cortese); # Bibl. Walleriana 8238 (ed. 1575); # not in Machiels, Soltész, STC Italy, Dorbon/Bibliotheca esoterica, Garrison & Morton. BOUND WITH, both printed in Venice in 1595 by Michele Bonibelli : (1). ZAPATA Giovanni Battista - Li maravigliosi secreti di medicina e chirurgia. Nuovamente ritrovati, per guarire ogni sorte d’infirmità. Raccolti dalla prattica dell’Eccellente medico M. Gio. Battista Zapata. Da Gioseppe Scientia chirurgico, suo discepolo. [40]-198-[2 bl.] pp. (very small tears in the margins, some pp. lightly browned otherwise very fresh). Second edition (1st ed. : 1592) of the remedies composed by Zapata, collected and edited by his student Giuseppe Scienzia, to cure disabilities and the plague (Aesclepios water), to grow a beard (apple water) and to dye it in black, to cure gangrene, eyes, liever, stomach, etc. ailments, to conserv youth (rosemary), mercure to cure syphilis, etc. # Durling 4787; # USTC 764575; # EDIT 16 76941; # not in Adams, STC Italy, Garrison & Morton, Bibl. Walleriana.-- (2). CORTESE, Isabella.- I secreti della Signora Isabella Cortese. Ne’ quali si contengono cose minerali, medicinali, arteficiose, & alchemiche. Et molte de l’arte profumatoria, appartenenti a ogni gran signora. Con altri bellissimi secreti aggiunti. Di nuovo ristampati, et con diligenza corretti. [16]-206-[2 bl.] pp. (numerous small foxing on some pp. at the end, some pp. very clean). Contains also oils, unguents, pills etc. for cosmetic, medicine, alchemic, dyeing, etc. uses. Illustrated with 3 in texto. According the specialists, the name of Cortese is probably a pseudonym used by Rossello because the two works deals with the same remedies and the 1561 edition of Cortese was published by Bariletto as the 1559 & 1561 editions of Rossello. The dedicatee in this edition is Mario Chaboga as in the 1st part of Rossello's edition d