Accession number
PML 145850.77
Published
[Paris : J. Bessin, 1635?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Engraved diagram evidently removed from a copy of William Davidson's textbook of chemistry entitled Philosophia pyrotechnica : Seu curriculus chymiatricus nobilissima illa & exoptatissima Medicinae parte pyrotechnica instructus (Paris : J. Bessin, 1633-1635).
Mounted as item 77 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.
Engraved diagram evidently removed from a copy of William Davidson's textbook of chemistry entitled Philosophia pyrotechnica : Seu curriculus chymiatricus nobilissima illa & exoptatissima Medicinae parte pyrotechnica instructus (Paris : J. Bessin, 1633-1635).
Mounted as item 77 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to plate mark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 235 x 95 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
An engraved diagram showing the three realms, including the corporeal sub-lunar, ethereal, and intellectual spheres.
Classification
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