Seedlip mention of John French’s Art of Distillation https://www.seedlipdrinks.com/en-us/our-story/
Books
- 1500 Brunschwig – Article about the book https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/5268093#S4
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1639, The Distiller of London https://amzn.to/2ZtZMGN
- 1651 A Short History of the Art of Distillation https://amzn.to/3ddPzX2
Distillation Book Timeline
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1455 A Very Useful Little Book on Distillations (82 herbal recipes) – were these for Medicinal Waters though? Anyone have it in English?
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1495 Gin
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1500 and 1527
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Hieronymus Brunschwig and his own 1500 book Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (often called the Small Book of Distillation) was the first printed manual exclusively on distillation. Brunschwig also published a larger book twelve years later that many refer to as the Large Book of Distillation.
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First part but not including herbal or distillation recipes https://www.scribd.com/document/320057285/1527-The-Virtuous-Book-Of-Distillation-Of-The-Waters-Of-All-Manner-Of-Herbs-pdf
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In olde English full text https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A03318.0001.001
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Some of these used aqua vitae as an extraction agent; also a recipe for aqua vitae, but not a book of drinks
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1559
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The treasure of Euonymus conteyninge the vvonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintesse[n]ce, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Wherunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art. Translated (with great diligence, et laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morvvying felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford.
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Author: Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
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1576
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The newe iewell of health wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, with the extraction of artificiall saltes, the vse and preparation of antimonie, and potable gold. Gathered out of the best and most approued authors, by that excellent doctor Gesnerus. Also the pictures, and maner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instrumentes therevnto belonging. Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, chirurgian.
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Author: Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01658.0001.001?rgn=subject;view=toc;q1=Distillation+–++Early+works+to+1800
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1639
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The Distiller of London
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1651
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The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes / composed by John French …