1511.1 Nicolas de LOCQUES. Les rudimens de la philosophie naturelle touchant le system du corps mixte. Cours theorique, Où sont clairement expliquez les Preceptes & les Principes de la Chymie, qui ont esté jusques icy cachez des anciens Philosophes. 8° a Paris, Chez Geoffroy Marcher 1665 Young British Library Wisconsin [Contains:- Cours pratique ou il est traité des opérations suivant la doctrine de Paracelse... De la fermentation... Avec le traitté du Sang & les propositions de la chymie resolutive. Elemens philosophiques des arcanes et du dissolvant general, etc.] [Illustrations:- 1. Folded frontispiece engraving. 134x124mm. Mercury stands beside the sea scooping up some water in a shell held in his right hand, while he holds aloft a torch in his left. A naked woman, a Venus figure, stands upon an inverted tetrahedron in the sea to the right of Mercury. She holds a torch downwards in her left hand and another upwards in her right uniting with Mercury's torch. Where the torches meet is a long-necked flask, at the neck of which is the Moon and the Sun shines in the heavens above. "N. Bonnart f." The text below is "Ut vivant flammas falsis extinguit in undis, accenditque udis coelestis ignibus ignes". 2. Inserted at end of first volume. Woodcut. 150x88mm. Various flasks, alembic, pelican etc. 3. Inserted after item 2. Woodcut. 155x88mm. Various items of distillation apparatus. 4. Inserted after item 3. Woodcut. 123x73mm. Elaborate apparatus of interconnecting flasks, probably for fractional distillation. There are two small tabular diagrams in the text at p176.]