349.1 Jean BROUAUT or BROUAULT.
Traité de l'eau de vie ou anatomie theorique et pratique du vin, divisé en trois livres. [Publié par I. Balesdens.]
4° Paris: chez Iacques de Senlecque, chez Iean Henault 1646
Ferguson Nat Union Cat Wisconsin Bibliotheque Nationale
[Illustrations:-
1. Engraving on titlepage. 69x79mm. Divided into two sections. On the left is a depiction of Basil Valentine 'Western philosopher', with 'Theoria' in library of books, and 'Practica' as series of bottles of alchemical substances. Behind him is a symbolic emblem with Moon and Sun, Venus and Mars, surrounding a solar disc at the centre of a hexagram. In the foreground a lion eats a dragon, while a tortoise or salamader is depicted with a saturn symbol upon its back. On the right is Hermes Trismegistus 'Oriental philosopher' holding a world globe and surrounded by various pieces of apparatus. The sun rays pass through a lens and heat a flask. A furnace is alight with a tortoise or salamander with a saturn symbol on its back. In the background is a organ of various pipes tuned to the notes of the planets, and beside Hermes is a viol and bow labelled 'Harmonia'. This plate is also used on the title page of Basil Valentine's 'Revelation des Mysteres des Teintures' published at Paris in 1646 by Jacques de Senlecque.
2. Inserted after introductory material before p1. Engraving printed off three plates. 157x85mm. Seven numbered circles or seals 36 mm in diameter, each with elaborate symbols within them.
The first has text 'l'univers ie contiens harmonique et typique'. A phoenix rises above a shield which has a circle within a triangle within a square, bearing symbols of the Moon, Sun and the planet, with saturnine salamander/tortoise and vine with grapes.
The second has text 'l'univers iennoblis de touts artis et sciences'. A woman's face beside an ornate inverted version of John Dee's Monas hieroglyphica.
The third has text 'l'univers soubs mon regne et par mes loix subsiste'. A woman's face beside an ornate inverted version of John Dee's Monas hieroglyphica, like the obverse of the second seal.
The fourth has text 'l'agent suis et par moy la nature vegete'. A flask has a bird within it, piercing its own breast and sheds feathers. On the right a hen nests in a tree trunk.
The fifth has text 'patient suis d'agent la matrice omogene'. On the left, the hand of God emerging from a cloud lets down a chain or stream into a flask. On the right, a double-headed bird, sheds feathers. Between them on the ground grows a plant with three fleur-de-lys, and in the heavens stands a star filled viol
The sixth has text 'ferment suis qui l'agent et patient anime'. Sun and Moon pour down their influences into a fountain, at the centre of which Mercury stands upon a small pillar enwreathed with a vine and grapes.
The seventh has text 'ie suis de l'univers la vertu Trismegiste'. An elaborate inverted Monas hieroglyphica, bearing signs of the zodiac, the planets and a square of the four qualities.
3. p37 Woodcut. 50x26mm. A flask is inserted upside down in a chalice.
4. p63 Woodcut. 55x65mm. Cylindrical furnace with diagram of door to the grate, with description of parts in the text.
5. p67 Woodcut. 99x88mm. 'Fourneau d'épargne'. Elaborate furnace with description of parts in the text.
6. p71 Woodcut. 48x49mm. Distillation apparatus in basin.
7. p72 Woodcut. 49x48mm. Cylindrical furnace.
8. p73 Woodcut. 64x51mm. Distillation apparatus, with description of parts in the text.
9. p74 Woodcuts. 44x25mm and 47x35mm. Two variations of distilling apparatus.
10. p81 Woodcut. 60x88mm. Distillation apparatus with water-cooled condensor using barrels.
11. p82 Woodcut. 87x57mm. Distillation apparatus with water-cooled still head.
12. p107 Woodcut. 67x40mm. Circulatory vessel or pelican.
13. p107 Woodcut. 35x16mm. Another type of circulatory vessel.
14. Inserted before p1 of 'Au lecteur'. Engraving. 75x56mm. Enlarged version of the symbolism contained in the first seal on item 2. The text following is a detailed explanation of the symbolism on this diagram.
The section headings of this book each have a small woodcut 26x20mm of item 14, and this is also use in Basil Valentine's 'Revelation des Mysteres des Teintures' also published at Paris in 1646 by Jacques de Senlecque.]