Title

The French perfumer : teaching the several ways of extracting the odours of drugs and flowers, and making all the compositions of perfumes for powder, wash-balls, essences, oyls, wax, pomatum, paste, Queen of Hungary's Rosa Solis, and other sweet waters : the manner of preparing sweet toilets, boxes, &c. with the preparations and use of perfumes of all kinds whatsoever : also how to colour and scent gloves and fans : together with the secret of cleansing tobacco, and perfuming it for all sorts of snuff, Spanish, Roman, &c. / done into English from the original printed at Paris.

Author

Barbe, Simon.

Publication

London : Printed for Sam. Buckley at the Dolphin over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1696.

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Additional Authors

Buckley, Samuel, 1674?-1741.

Description

[16], 126, [2] p.; 15 cm (12mo)

Subjects

• Snuff > Early works to 1800
• Perfumes > Early works to 1800
• Formulas, recipes, etc > Early works to 1800
• Essences and essential oils > Early works to 1800

Note

• Translation of: Le parfumeur françois, by Simon Barbe. Cf. Arents, G. Tobacco, II, 427a.
• Signatures: A⁸ B-F¹² G⁴. Leaf G4 blank.
• Also available as an e-book (Huntington Library copy) through Early English Books Online.

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC
• Wing (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• Unidentified bookplate, with crest depicting crowned dove holding olive branch and cipher J.A. (?); shield outlined in olive and laurel leaves.

Binding (note)

• Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in dark brown morocco.

Call Number

*KC 1696 09-62

OCLC

83104356

Author

Barbe, Simon.

Title

The French perfumer : teaching the several ways of extracting the odours of drugs and flowers, and making all the compositions of perfumes for powder, wash-balls, essences, oyls, wax, pomatum, paste, Queen of Hungary's Rosa Solis, and other sweet waters : the manner of preparing sweet toilets, boxes, &c. with the preparations and use of perfumes of all kinds whatsoever : also how to colour and scent gloves and fans : together with the secret of cleansing tobacco, and perfuming it for all sorts of snuff, Spanish, Roman, &c. / done into English from the original printed at Paris.

Imprint

London : Printed for Sam. Buckley at the Dolphin over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1696.

Indexed In:

ESTC R020672

Wing (2nd ed.) B689A

Binding

Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in dark brown morocco. NN

Provenance

Unidentified bookplate, with crest depicting crowned dove holding olive branch and cipher J.A. (?); shield outlined in olive and laurel leaves. NN

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Added Author

Buckley, Samuel, 1674?-1741. Printer

Research Call Number

*KC 1696 09-62