Historisch-kritische Untersuchung der Alchimie, oder der eingebildeten Goldmacherkunst; von ihrem Ursprunge sowohl als Fortgange, und was nun von ihr zu halten sey / Von Johann Christian Wiegleb.
Johann Christian Wiegleb's 1777 historical-critical study of alchemy, printed in Weimar by C. L. Hoffmann, is a German scholarly treatise examining alchemy's origins and development. The two pictures are small typographic ornaments: a scrolled acanthus cartouche with leafy tendrils, and a garland of fruit, foliage and a ribbon-tied swag, both in black line on cream paper, useful to a designer seeking eighteenth-century decorative border or dividing-rule motifs.
