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  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • M0012393: Illustration of 'The Emerald Table of Hermes'
  • D.O.M.A. Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico-chymico: qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim planè novis ... : praemissa defensione artis opposita censurae Parisianae.
  • Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus anglicus. The first part.
  • Atalanta fvgiens, hoc est emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica. Accommodata partim oculis & intellectui, figuris cupro incisis, adjectisqúe sententiis, epigrammatis & notis, partim auribus & recreationi animi plus minus 50 fugis musicalibus trium vocum, quarum duÆ ad unam simplicem melodiam distichis canendis peraptam, correspondeant ... / authore Michaele Majero.
  • Cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia; exinde, quid, lapis sophorum antiquissimus, rei sit, qui triplex, & tamen simplex lapis existit : Omnia hactenus ex variis etiam scriptis paucis observata, singulis laboriosis amatoribus artis honoris ergò, deo annuente, tam perspicuè ac lucidissimo speculo, proposita, et quatuor aeneis laminis incisis picturis exhibita / Per ignotum, attamen notum, sicuti insignia prima figurae insculpta testantur, nunc è Germanico, Latnio [sic] versa à strenuo sapientiae cultore, et unâ cum praestantissimi cujusdam philosophi diagraphe hujus ipsius argumenti, Roseae Crusis Fraternitati dicata edita. Quò hac in materia amplius nil desideretur.
  • M0012389: Title page of <i>Atalanta Fvgiens...</i>, 1618
  • An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
  • D.O.M.A. Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico-chymico: qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim planè novis ... : praemissa defensione artis opposita censurae Parisianae.
  • M0012393: Illustration of 'The Emerald Table of Hermes'
  • An alchemist in a short orange gown blowing bellows into a still with an alembic. Pastel drawing.
  • A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.
  • M0012389: Title page of <i>Atalanta Fvgiens...</i>, 1618
  • Three books of occult philosophy / Written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim. Translated out of the Latin into the English by J.F[reake].
  • An alchemist at his furnace, hunched over bellows. Coloured mezzotint by H. Dawe after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym ... De occulta philosophia libri tres .... / [Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim].
  • M0012389: Title page of <i>Atalanta Fvgiens...</i>, 1618
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • M0012395: Illustration of the 'Second Key of Basil Valentine'
  • A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.
  • An alchemist working with his assistants at a crucible. Etching by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • M0007668: An alchemist in his laboratory
  • An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
  • A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
  • M0012395: Illustration of the 'Second Key of Basil Valentine'
  • M0012393: Illustration of 'The Emerald Table of Hermes'
  • M0012395: Illustration of the 'Second Key of Basil Valentine'
  • M0011859: Reproduction of a page showing "chymicall characters" or chemical symbols in use during 17th century from Moses Charas' The royal pharmacopoea, Galencial and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France, 1678