Beschreibung:

Salts.- Mackaile (Matthew) The Diversitie of Salts and Spirits mantained. Or, the imaginary volatility of some salts and non-entity of the alcali, before cremation and identity of all alcalies, all volatil salts, and all vinous spirits... together with... scurvie alchymie discovered, first edition, folding letterpress table, title within woodcut ruled border, woodcut initials and decorations, ink ownership inscriptions to title and pastedown, contemporary calf, upper half worn with loss, lower half rebacked, extremities a little worn, [Wing M144], small 8vo, Aberdeen, by John Forbes, 1683. ⁂ First edition of this rare treatise on salts and attack on the physicians and surgeons of Aberdeen. Provenance: James Paton (ink inscription to title).