Delle prepar[azio] ni de metalli et del modo d'estrahere le pure essenze dell'oro chimistichamente
A seventeenth-century Italian manuscript on alchemy attributed to Paracelsus, dated 1670, held by the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, apparently written for practitioners of chemical preparation of metals. The two pictures are a plain library bookplate in red and black and a small brown ink sketch of a distillation apparatus with a flask and a grinding-style box, which a designer might use for its economical line drawing and handwritten marginal feel.
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