Theatrum chemicum, praecipuos selectorum auctorum tractatus de chemiae et lapidis philosophici antiquitate, veritate, iure, praestantia, & operationibus, continens: in gratiam verae chemiae, et medicinae chemicae studiosorum ... congestum, et in tres partes seu volumina digestum; singulis voluminibus, suo auctorum et librorum catalogo primis pagellis: rerum vero & verborum indice postremis annexo. Volumen primum [- tertium]

1602 · ex officina Cornelii Sutorii, sumtibus Lazari Zetzneri · 34 pictures

Theatrum chemicum is a 1602 anthology of alchemical treatises compiled for students of chemistry and chemical medicine, printed at Strasbourg by Cornelius Sutorius for the publisher Lazarus Zetzner. The four pictures are repeated woodcut printers' ornaments, each showing a bearded mask-like face set within scrolled cartouches, swags and foliate pendants, with a plain letterpress text block visible behind them. A designer could draw on their symmetrical, strapwork-style framing for title pages, emblem frames or decorative borders.

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