287.2 Giambattista [Giovanni Battista] BIRELLI.
Alchimia Nova, das ist, die Güldene Kunst, Oder Aller Künsten Gebärerin, Sampt dero heimlichen Secreten, unzehlichen verbogenen Kindern und Früchten. Von allerley Alchimistischen unnd Metallischen Geschäfften, Wässern unnd Oelen, Bereytungen der Kälck, der Kunst zu figirn, Silber unnd Gold zumachen, Edelgesteinen, Leymen, Mixturn, und Spiegeln, den Saltzen, der Farb und Mahl Kunst, auch sonst vielen lustigen kurtzweiligen Künsten. Allen liebhabern der Kunst, Edlen und Unedlen, Aertzten, Alchimisten, Apoteckern, Mahlern, Goldschmieden, Jubilierern, Eyssenschmieden, Schreinern, &c., zu trewhertzigem Gefallen. Auss dem Italianischen dess Edlen und Vesten, Hanss Baptiste Birelli von Senis, auff das fleissigst verteutscht, durch Petrum Uffenbachium der Artzney D. und bestälten Medicum in Franckfurt.
4° Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, bey Niclas Hoffman, I verlegung der Paltheniorum in Franckfurt 1603
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[Illustrations:-
The images here correspond in most cases to those in the 1601 Italian first edition, though a number of the woodcuts there are not included. The woodcut style is here much cleaner focusing on the primary image, and most of the decorative background scenes are removed.
1. p25 Woodcut. 84x64mm. Square furnace with distilling flasks.
2. p26 Woodcut. 84x64mm. Square furnace with distilling flasks.
3. p33 Woodcut. 83x61mm. Various flasks and still heads.
4. p39 Woodcut. 83x64mm. Round furnace with two triangular crucibles on the ground beside it.
5. p40 Woodcut. 127x68mm. Two distillations occuring in flasks heated by the Sun.
6. p45 Woodcut. 84x64mm. Round furnace with water-bath vessel beside it.
7. p47 Woodcut. 83x63mm. Furnace with four corner towers upon which are set various alembics and stills.
8. p61 Woodcut. 82x63mm. Various items of apparatus.
9. p101 Woodcut. 87x68mm. Distillation on square furnace collected by cooling by means of condenser in a barrel.
10. p136. Woodcut. Repeat of item 9.
11. p142. Woodcut. 86x67mm. Domed reveberberation furnace.
12. p143. Woodcut. 86x67mm. Flask on table, with filtration apparatus and flask set on a round furnace.
13. p216. Woodcut. 86x66mm. Crucible set upon dish upon a tripod, which is set upon a dish on a tripod, and this stands upon a circular furnace.
14. p233. Woodcut. 84x65mm. Flask in a waterbath upon a round furnace.
15. p292. Woodcut. 85x64mm. Hermes Trismegistus depicted as a bearded man leaning upon a sword.
16. p295. Woodcut. 67x35mm. Plant or herb.
17. p725. Woodcut. Hermes, repeat of item 15.]