Back to main Website 1283.1 Theodor KERCKRING [1640-1693]. Commentarius in Currum triumphalem antimonii Basilii Valentini, à se latinitate donatum. 12° Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frisii 1671 Ferguson Nat Union Cat [Illustrations:- 1. Frontispiece engraving. 116x67mm. Six classical planetary gods and goddesses, draw the triumphal chariot of antimony. Vulcan with his hammer and blazing furnace steers. In the chariot a woman sits and holds out her hand to Mercury with his caduceus. A man, his head wreathed in flowers and bearing a flaming torch, holds a ring around these joined hands. From the clouds above a cherub throws down flowers. "Romyn de Hooghe fecit. 1671." 2. p179 Engraving. 110x61mm. A complex distilling apparatus. A retort heated on a furnace feeds its distillate into an alembic heated on another furnace. 3. p210 Engraving. 110x61mm. A double pelican for continuous distillation. 4. p221 Engraving. 110x61mm. A retort is heated on a furnace and the distillates are collected in a complex of three flasks. 5. p280 Engraving. 109x61mm. A conical vessel open at the top is suspended over glowing coals, to collect a sublimate, which the text refers to as the oil of sulphur. 6. p291 Engraving. 109x61mm. An alembic discharges its distillate into a bottle.]