Among the many jewels of our rare book collection is Annibal Barlet’s work of 1657 Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie…
The volume has been rebound in vellum. It is 626 pages with a woodcut frontispiece and contains 37 full-page woodcuts illustrating the diverse operations of alchemical processes in detail.
Barlet, Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie, 1657
Woodcuts depict various chemical apparatus and operations of a laboratory in the mid 17th century. Barlet gives accounts of instruments, vessels, processes, minerals, and recipes.
Barlet, Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie, 1657
Barlet, Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie, 1657
Our copy has been digitized and is available in full via the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Barlet, Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie, 1657
Barlet, Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie, 1657
Barlet, Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairements dite chymie, 1657