Volumen primum.
A volume of alchemical and chemical instruction, likely a sixteenth-century printed treatise from the Renaissance with its title given only as Volumen primum, held by the C.G. Jung library. The woodcuts show distillation apparatus, furnaces built of brick, and lettered vessels with labelled diagrams for working students. A designer might draw on the stacked brick furnace forms, the geometric block diagrams with lettered faces, and the glass alembics with their coiled tubes for vintage scientific graphics.
