M0011825: Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "pelican vessel" possibly from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512

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Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "pelican vessel" possibly from Brunschwig, Hieronymus (approximately 1450-approximately 1512): <i> Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis. Das buch der waren kunst zu distillieren die Composita und simplicia, und dz Buch thesaurus pauperum, Ein schatz d'armen genant Micarium, die brösamlin gefallen von den büchern d'Artzny, und durch Experiment von mir Jheronimo bruschwick uff geclubt und geoffenbart zu trost denen die es begeren<i> Strassburg : J. Grüninger, 1512.</i></i>

M0011825: Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "pelican vessel" possibly from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512

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