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Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta; tum dogmatibus & experimentis nonnullis ... : tum commentario medico physico chymico ...

Libavius, Andreas · 1606 · excudebat Ioannes Saurius, impensis Petri Kopffii · 172 pictures

Alchymia is a 1606 alchemical treatise by Andreas Libavius, printed in Frankfurt by Johann Saur at the expense of Peter Kopff, and held by the C.G. Jung library. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts of laboratory furnaces, glass vessels and stone apparatus set on ground lines with hatched shading and labelled letters, offering a designer clean, old-fashioned technical diagrams with strong contour and cross-hatch texture.

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