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Tabula Combinatoria//qua quiquid in tota Alchimia continentur...Solve//Coagula 1665. Engraving. Fine condition. 13 x 9 inches Image not available, inquiries welcome. Alchemy, transmutation This seems to be Kircher's attempt to present a more "pious version" of the transmutation of the elements... (Paula Finden, Athanasius Kircher, the LAst Man WHo Knew Everything..." 2003). +++Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. Print ID# 800741 $450.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Candle Making 1811. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Good condition. 8.5" x 11" Detailed drawings related to candlemaking. Print ID# 800071 $55.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Chirurgie (surgery) ca. 1785. Copper-plate engraving. Very good condition 8" x 10" Print ID# 800011 $95.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Diving Bell 1816. Engraving. Very nice copy. 8" x 10" Technical drawings of diving bells. This engraving is from the famous Rhees Encyclopedia published in London 1808-1818. This plate from the "Hydraulics" section features an early illustration of an air-fed diver. Print ID# 800007 $95.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Electric Machines 1812. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Print ID# 800087 $75.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Electrical Machine & Battery 1804. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Beautifully executed engraving of an early electrostatic generator. Print ID# 800085 $125.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Electricity 1819. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Early uses of electricity. Print ID# 800079 $85.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Horology. (New DIAL...) 1811. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" New Dial of a work of a small spring clock showing the phenomena of the Moon. Print ID# 800088 $125.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Horse Shoeing 1810. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Farriery - details of various horse shoes. Print ID# 800080 $100.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Messrs. Bason & Donkins Printing Machine. 1819. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Beatifully detailed engraving of printing press. Print ID# 800083 $50.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	P�ches aux Filets Printed ca. 1785. Engraving on copper. Very good condition. 8.5" x 11" This engraving appeared in the octavo edition of the great Diderot encyclopedia and was used to illustrate the repair of fish nets. Print ID# 800003 $95.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	P�ches aux Hamecons, Hains &c. 1785. Engraving. M. Bernard. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Fish Hooks A very fine, semi-surreal graphical presentation of fishing gear, beautifully presented -- I think with outstanding visual qualities, like that feeling of the undefined "rightness" of placement of stuff in Joey Cornell boxes� Print ID# 800114 $225.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Priestley's Battery 1810. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Oblique view of a 64-cell electro-chemical battery; very fine, odd perspective, provocative shadowing. Print ID# 800086 $85.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	Repeating Watch 1817. Engraving. Wilson Lowry. Fine condition. 8.5" x 11" Finely rendered depiction of repeating watch. Print ID# 800082 $75.00
Click on thumbnail for a larger image	View of an Iron Mine 1783. Engraving. Very good condition. 7" x 5.5" Bautiful, early image of a (somewhat idealized) mining operation. Print ID# 800053 $100.00

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