Currus triumphalis antimonii fratris Basilii Valentini Monachi Benedictini : opus antiquioris medicinae & philosophiae hermeticae studiosis dicatum
A 1646 alchemy treatise printed at Toulouse by Pierre Bosc, a Latin work on antimony attributed to Basil Valentine and dedicated to students of old medicine and hermetic philosophy. Its pictures are ornamental woodcut initials, historiated and foliate, with figures, vines and birds inside the letter frames, useful to a designer seeking decorative capitals with a sixteenth-century character.














