Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 2818 'Anglo-Gallic salutations in London

'Anglo-Gallic salutations in London

Sunderland 0 v Chelsea

York Street Chapel

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'Sardanapalus'

Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 2818 'Anglo-Gallic salutations in LondonBoth pictures on this plate are part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's treatise on the 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'. The upper image depicts 'A Gift offered to all diligent Physicians The manner of concentrating and amending of Metals by Nitre' (the distilling vessel is designed as 'a Man made of Iron, having two noses on his head'). The lower picture shows the furnace used in 'a Gift presented to rich Merchants', again involving the use of nitre