Basil Valentine his triumphant chariot of antimony : with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius, M.D. : with, The true book of the learned Synesius, a Greek abbot, taken out of the Emperour's library, concerning the philosopher's stone
An English translation of the alchemical treatise attributed to Basil Valentine, with Theodor Kerckring's annotations and a tract of Synesius, printed in London for Dorman Newman in 1678 for physicians and alchemical readers. Copperplate figures show retorts, receivers, hooded alembics and brick furnaces on plain ground lines, drawn in fine hatching with cast shadows — usable as isolated glassware silhouettes and apparatus diagrams.
