A description of new philosophical furnaces, or, A new art of distilling, divided into five parts : whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile : also the first part of the mineral work : set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth
A 1651 London treatise on alchemical distillation and metallurgy by Johann Rudolf Glauber, translated and published by John French for students of chemistry and the mineral arts. Its pictures are decorative headpieces and a heraldic arms panel in dense black woodcut, with scrolling foliage, strapwork and a central shield that a designer could draw on for ornamental borders and tailpieces.
