Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. Containing the latter five books. Viz. VII. Of alchymie, and the grand elixir of philosophers. VIII. Of the 112 chymical arcana of Peter Faber. IX. Of chiromantical signatures. X. Of staining and painting glass, enamel, and gems. XI. Of vernishing, japaning, and gilding. The seventh and ninth books, are almost all of them, and the two last wholly new. /
by: Salmon, William, 1644-1713
Published: (1701)