Notandissimi Secreti De L Arte Profumatoria Per Far Ogli Acque Paste Balle Moscardini Uccelletti

by Giovanni Ventura Rossetti Or Rosetti Roseto

$14,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

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Rare second edition (first 1555) of the first Western treatise on the art perfume making and cosmetics, containing over 300 recipes, which became something of a Venetian specialty in part because of that city’s supply of exotics from trade with the East, and in part for its fascination with feminine..... More

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