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Distillation

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  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • Chemistry: multiple vessels for distillation, on a furnace. Woodcut after M. Augusti.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.
  • Chemistry: a large vessel for distillation, on a furnace. Woodcut after M. Augusti.
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Catalogue

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    The chemical laboratory of Ambrose Godfrey: : the distilling room. Etching attributed to W.H. Toms after H. Gravelot.

    Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773. | Date: [between 1730 and 1739?] | Reference: 37025i
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    A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors : with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood.

    Morewood, Samuel. | Date: 1838
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    Histoire de la Communauté des Distillateurs. Histoire des liqueurs / [Paul Clacquesin].

    Clacquesin, Paul. | Date: 1900
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    Summa destillationis : von der Destillation, den gebrannten Wassern und mancherlei Laboratoriumskünsten / Heinz W. Prinzler.

    Prinzler, Heinz, 1914- | Date: [1983], ©1983
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    Theorie der Gewinnung und Trennung der ätherischen Öle durch Destillation : (Grundzüge einer allgemeinen Destillationslehre) / von C. von Rechenberg.

    Rechenberg, C. von (Carl), 1852-1926. | Date: 1910
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