A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Euonymus, containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & distill medicines, for the conservation of helth: as quintessence, aurum potabile, hyppocras, aromaticall wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes ... Whereunto are joyned the formes of sondry apt furnaces, and vessels ...
A 1565 London treatise on distillation and medicine, translated by Peter Morwen from Conrad Gessner's work and printed by John Day for physicians, apothecaries and general readers of early modern England. Its woodcut pages show glass alembics, stills, retorts and furnaces with careful outlines and dense black-letter type, offering a designer examples of simple scientific diagrams and early printed ornament.
