Cours de philosophie hermétique : ou, d'alchimie en dix-neuf leçons ... suivies des explications de quelques articles des cinq premiers chapitres de la Genèse / par Moïse; et de trois additions prouvant trois vies en l'homme, animal parfait ... par L.-P. François Cambriel.
A French alchemy lecture course by L.-P. François Cambriel, printed in Paris in 1845 and held by Glasgow University Library, written as a hermetic philosophy primer for students of occult science. The pictures are plain line drawings of carved hieroglyph-style columns topped with robed, crowned figures, with a Ferguson Collection bookplate shield showing a tree, a hammer, a bell and a fish. A designer might take from them the stiff symmetrical layout of early engraved column figures and the emblematic heraldic shield as decorative motifs.
