Plictho of Gioanventura Rosetti: Instructions in the Art of the Dyers Which Teaches the Dyeing of Woolen Cloths, Linens, Cottons, and Silk by the Great Art as Well as By the Common. Translation of the First Edition of 1548.

Gioanventura Rosetti, Sidney M. Edelstein (Translator), Hector C. Borghetty (Translator)

MIT Press, 1969

Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xxxvi, 199 pages illustrations, facsimiles, 28 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. Hannaway was the author of a number of books: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations ofModern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).