Tripus chimicus Sendivogianus, dreyfaches chimisches Kleinod. Das ist zwölff Tractätlin von dem philosophischen Stain der alten Weisen ...
A 1628 alchemical treatise by Michał Sędziwój, published by the Zetzner heirs, with German text setting out twelve tracts on the philosophers' stone for readers of alchemy. Its four pictures are small woodcut vignettes, each a square panel of a figure driving a chariot pulled by animals, set at the foot of the text block. A designer could take from them the compact, emblematic scale of early modern printed woodcuts and the way a single framed image sits beneath dense black-letter type.
