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 quatuor partes seu volumina digestum; singulis voluminibus, suo auctorum et librorum catalogo primis pagellis: rerum vero & verborum indice postremis annexo. Volumen primum [- quartum]

1613 · sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri · 33 pictures

Theatrum chemicum is a 1613 alchemical anthology of selected treatises on chemistry and the philosophers' stone, issued in Strasbourg by Lazarus Zetzner for students of chemical medicine. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut and letterpress devices: an emblematic oval with a winged figure riding a dragon above a globe, a bearded face framed in scrolls, a geometric square diagram, and a sun-and-moon roundel. A designer could draw on their compact, symmetrical emblem structure and the dense blackletter-and-roman type pages surrounding them.

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