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Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 45. 288 pages. 235x174mm. 17th Century. [Orthelius] Commentateur de la Nouvelle Lumiere Chimique de Michel Sendivogius polonais, augmentée et ornée de douze figures qui ont ete Trouvées en Allemagne et publies en faveur de Enfans eléves de la Philosophie hermetique traduit d'allemand en latin et de Latin en francois.
[With series of 12 numbered and one unnumbered coloured illustrations.]
p 288 [At end there is pasted in a printed section showing the armorial devices of Nicolas Lambert 1594, Thorin Richard 1595, Pierre Parfait, echevin en 1626, Charles le Comte 1613.]
[12 of these fine watercolour illustrations are found as engraved versions in Commentarius in 'Novum Lumen Chymicum Michaelis Sendivogii Poloni, XII. figuris in Germania repertis illustratum', included in Theatrum Chemicum, 1661, vi. p. 397, also Manget, J.J. Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa,1702, ii, p. 516.]
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