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A002. Frontispiece engraving from Johann Helfrich JÜNGKEN, Chymia experimentalis, Frankfurt, 1701.

A017. From Theophilus Schweighardt's 'Mirror of the Rosicrucian wisdom'.

A031. Frontispiece from Nicolas de Locques Les Rudiments de la Philosophie Naturelle, Paris, 1665.

A033. Frontispiece from Knorr von Rosenroth Kabbala Denudata, Sulzbach 1677.

A039. Engraving from Thomas Vaughan Lumen de lumine, London, 1651.

A054. Frontispiece engraving from Joannis Agricola Commentariorum, Notarum, Observationum & Animadversionum in Johannis Poppii chymische Medicin, Leipsig, 1638.

A061. 'Ora et labora' woodcut from Medicinisch-chymisch- und alchemistische Oraculum, Ulm 1755.

A073. Hermetic silence - emblem from Achille Bocchi Symbolicarum quaestionem de universo genere, 1574.

A103. Woodcut from Libavius Commentariorum alchymiae, 1606.

A124. Frontispiece from Jean Beguin, Tyrocinium chymicum, 1660

A126. Melchior Cibinensis from Maier Symbola aurea mensae, Franckfurt, 1617.

A137.Frontispiece from Siebmacher Wasserstein der Weysen, 1704.

A141. Engraving one from Michelspacher Cabala: Spiegel der Kunst und Natur, 1615.

A179. Frontispiece engraving from Karl von Eckhartshausen Aufschlüsse zur Magie, Munich, 1788.

A181. Engraved tile page from Musaeum hermeticum, 1625.

A186.Frontispiece engraving from J.J . Becher, Tripus hermeticus fatidicus, 1689.

A197.Engraved title page from Michael Maier Arcana arcanissima, 1614.

A200.Engraving from C Gesner, The Practice of the New and Old Physicke, London, 1599.

A203.Engraved title page from John Swan Speculum Mundi, Cambridge, 1644.

A226.Frontispiece from Theatrum Sympateticum Amsterdam, 1727.

All these images are copyright © Adam McLean 1998-2004. These are available for sale as coloured prints from the alchemy web bookstore or as high resolution images on the Alchemical and hermetic emblems CD-Rom.

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