The Book of PerfumesReprint of the original, first published in 1867. |
Contents
PREPACB | 1 |
festivaloThe acred bull Apis Dintments offered to the gods | 15 |
CHAPTER III | 37 |
Assyrian deities and worship The temple of BelosNimrods altar | 50 |
CHAPTER V | 77 |
CHAPTER VI | 97 |
CHAPTER VIII | 139 |
CHAPTER IX | 167 |
British flowerfarms Distillation expression maceration and | 203 |
APPENDIX | 265 |
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