Database of alchemical Iconography

24 Christopher GLASER.
Trait� de la chymie enseignant par une brieve et facile methode toutes ses plus necessaires preparations. Par Christophle Glaser Apothiquaire ordinaire du Roy.
8� A Paris, chez l'Autheur au faubourg St Germain pres le petit marche 1663

3 illustrations - 1 symbolic - 2 equipment

1. Engraved title page. 135x83mm. Includes two round seals copied from the 160 emblems in the 'Hermetico-Spagyrisches Lustg�rtlein', 1625. One is the first emblem associated with Hermes Trismegistus which was first used in Maier's 'Symbola aure� mens�...' 1617, depicting a hand holding a terrestrial globe, the other is number 141 showing a lion-headed snake seizing its eagle-headed tail and coiling around the Sun and Moon, first used in Basil Valentine's 'Azoth' series, 1613.

2. Inserted between pages 34 and 35. Engraving. 149x183mm. (double-page). A number of pieces of apparatus numbered a-z, including flasks, retorts, alembics and various types of complex fractionating distilling apparatus. With explanation in the text.
3. Inserted between pages 48 and 49. Engraving. 146x181mm. (double-page). A number of furnaces with ancilliary equipment, tongs, fire-irons, etc. With explanation in the text.