The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals : also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth : together with many other things very profitable for all the lovers of art and industry
An English collected edition of Johann Rudolph Glauber's chemical and alchemical writings, translated by Christopher Packe and printed in London in 1689 for practitioners of metallurgy, medicine and saltpetre-making. Woodcuts show retorts, alembics, crucibles and sectioned brick furnaces in lettered figure keys, plus a workman at a bellows: clean outline shapes with hatched shading, usable as apparatus silhouettes and diagram parts.
