The secrets of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont containing excellent remedies against diuerse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with he maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings. A worke well approued, verie necessarie for euerie man. ... Translated out of French into English by William Ward - Ruscelli, Girolamo 1500-1566 (By Peter Short, for Thomas Wight, 1595)
A translation by William Ward (parts 1-3) and Richard Androse (part 4) of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese. - Edition statement precedes translator statement on title page. - Foxed; some print show-through. - In four parts. - Includes index. - Parts 2-4 have separate dated title pages. - Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 312