Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique, faicts françois par M. Jean Liebaut
Quatre livres des secrets de medecine et de la philosophie chimique is a French medical and chemical treatise by Jean Liebault, printed in Paris by Jacques du Puys in 1579 for physicians and readers of vernacular medicine. Its woodcut figures show alembics, flasks, a sealed vessel over fire, and a row of glass vessels on a furnace, giving a designer clear, austere period images of early alchemical apparatus.







