Engravings from Goossen van Vreeswyk

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Engravings from Goossen van Vreeswyk, 1672.
De Roode Leeuw, of het Sout der Philosophen; Waer in wonderlijke Bedenkkingen over het Groote Werk, heerlijk bearbeiden der Metalen en Mineralen, kostelijke medicynen, suivere Brandewynen uit allerley Vruchten, en vele nutte Konsten den Liefhebberen van de Natuur uit eigen ervarentheit mede gedeelt worden... Allesins met noodige kopere platen verciert. Arentsz, Amsterdam, 1672.
These images were taken from a well known Dutch emblem book of Jacob Cats which had gone through many editions before van Vreeswyk found these in the edition of 1659 printed in Dordrecht. The printer of the van Vreeswyk books, must have obtained the original engraved plates and added the graphic symbols for alchemical substances.
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