832.1 John FRENCH [1616?-1657].
The Art of Distillation, or a Treatise of the choicest Spagyricall Preparations performed by way of Distillation, being partly taken out of the most select Chymicall Authors of severall Languages, and partly out of the Authors manuall Experience; together with The Description of the chiefest Furnaces and Vessels used by Ancient, and Moderne Chymists: also, A Discourse of divers Spagyricall Experiments, and Curiosities, and of the Anatomy of Gold and Silver, with the chiefest Preparations, and Curiosities thereof, and Vertues of them all. All which are contained in six books. Composed by John French. Dr. of Physick.
4° London Printed by Richard Cotes and are to be sold by Thomas Williams 1651
Ferguson Nat Union Cat Wisconsin
[Illustrations:-
1 woodcut on titlepage and 42 in the text.
1. Woodcut on titlepage. 55x49mm. Pelican flask.
2. p5 120x60mm. Special distilling vessel.
3. p6 72x51mm. Glass bottle with ground glass stopper.
4. p7 90x39mm. Flask sealed with quicksilver.
5. p8 91x70mm. Method of sealing the neck of a flask.
6. p16 75x85mm. Laboratory equipment, tongs, rake, etc.
7. p17 51x50mm. A cold still.
8. p20 92x73mm. Furnace with vessels to distill liquors with steam.
9. p21 92x64mm. Balneum Mariae, which can also be used for distilling from ashes.
10. p22 93x89mm. The furnace for a Balneum Mariae, with the alembics and their receivers.
11. p23 78x66mm. Another Balneum Mariae.
12. p23 60x78mm. An alembic bound to a plate of lead.
13. p24 52x58mm. Alembic on a water bath.
14. p25 86x66mm. A hot still.
15. p27 48x44mm. A pelican flask.
16. p28 29x66mm. A chain of four distillations.
17. p29 50x69mm. Method for distilling in wooden vessels.
18. p29 36x70mm. A Balneum and a boiling vessel made of wood.
19. p31 59x53mm. An elaborate form of alembic.
20. p41 58x72mm. Specialised furnace to make oil by descension.
21. p42 67x131mm. Distilling by the heat of the Sun.
22. p44 43x92mm. A glass gourd with its still head.
23. p65 39x70mm. A retort with its receiver.
24. p65 43x70mm. A retort and its receiver set on the furnace.
25. p68 71x75mm. A still for making oil of sulphur.
26. p72 57x75mm. Reverberating furnace with retirt and receiver.
27. p76 75x76mm. Apparatus consisting of a chain of flasks.
28. p77 124x84mm. Furnace and flask for quick distillation.
29. p84 59x66mm. The first figure of specialised furnace for distillation.
30. p84 62x80mm. The second figure of specialised distillation furnace.
31. p89 46x59mm. Complex retorts.
32. p114 107x96mm. Elaborate distillation apparatus with condensors.
33. p123 54x47mm. A Hypocras bag or filtration apparatus.
34. p124 48x16mm. A triple filtration apparatus.
35. p146 51x76mm. Distillation apparatus to make the water and tincture of any vegetable.
36. p147 68x39mm. Retort used to purify water.
37. p148 77x52mm. Showing the internal filtration apparatus used in item 36.
38. p149 58x83mm. Method of filtration using a cascade of bowls and shreds of cloth.
39. p151 112x64mm. A lamp furnace.
40. p153 54x52mm. A lamp furnace using three candles.
41. p155 66x74mm. Philosophical bellows.
42. p156 49x73mm. Method of forming a fire with balls of coal.
43. p158 96x140mm. A steam bath for humans.]