Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Copperplate engraving - Scarce original antique print:
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print. Actual: 1778 (indicated on the source's title page)
- Publisher: London, Printed for the Authors Rev. Erasmus Middleton, W. Turnbull, T. Ellis & J. Davison
- Condition: 2 (1.
Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). The print is slightly
uneven (wavy).
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 13.5
inches (22 x 34 cm)
- Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Note:
1. Green 'border' around the
print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was
photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. 3. Photos show the front and back of the print.
Legend:
1. A reverberatory furnace for distilling oil of vitriol, etc. with
thirty-two long-necks. a, a, a, the receivers, that are placed within
the furnace, opposite to b, b, b, b, the necks of the longnecks, the
bodies being placed with the furnace, c, the fire-place, d, the
ash-hole.
2. A large furnace, in which flowers of sulphur are sublimed in a great
quantity. a, the fire-place, b, the ash-hole. c, a door into the body
of the furnace, by which the flowers are taken out.
3. A melting furnace, a, b, two small doors to the fire-place, to be
opened occasionally, when it is necessary to inspect the matter acted
on by the fire, or to add fuel. c, a large door, to be opened when a
crucible is to be set in or taken out of the furnace.
4. A pelican, or circulatory vessel. 5. A subliming furnace, d, the
body of the furnace, a, the body into which the matter to be sublimed
is projected. b, b, b, three aludels. c, the head. 6. A tubulated
retort. 7. A body and head. 8. An adopter, a, a glass vent-tube fitted
to its small end. 9. A retort. 10. A melter’s horn, or antimonial cone.
11. A commodious apparatus for making spirit of sulphur. a, a large
retort with a hole in its bottom, f, a tubulated receiver, with the
spout upwards, e, a glass mortar- d, a concave glass plate, with a hole
in the middle, e, a gallipot inverted over the perforation in d. b, a
crucible containing burning sulphur. 12. A German crucible. 13. A
muffle. 14. A black lead crucible. 15. A cupel or coppel. 16. An
alembic head. 17. A blind head. 18. An adopter. 19. A receiver. 20. An
earthen long-neck for distilling oil of vitriol, etc.
21. A furnace for digestions, etc. a, a vessel, containing the
ingredients to be digested. 22. A furnace for distilling harts-horn in
quantity. B, the furnace, containg an iron pot. c, an earthen head, b,
b, two receivers. 23. A furnace for distilling with a retort on an open
fire, d, a coated retort placed in the furnace. 24. A furnace for
distilling in balneum mariae. D, the furnace, containing an iron pot
filled with water, c, the vessel, containing the ingredients placed hi
the water. d, a glass head, e, a receiver. 25. A small furnace for
boiling syrups, etc. 26. A furnace for melting, boiling, etc. M, the
bellows. f, a glass body in a copper vessel filled with water, placed
over the furnace. 27. A furnace for making spirit of sal ammoniac, etc.
G, the furnace, a, a retort placed in the furnace, g, a large receiver.
28. An apparatus for procuring the volatile salt of sal ammoniac, etc.
in a dry form, i, an adopter, h, a receiver. 29. A sand-heat, with a
retort and receiver.
30. A cold-still. n, the head. o, the receiver, 31. An open furnace for
extracting volatile halts, as from vipers, etc. q, a coated retort
placed in the furnace on an open fire, p, the receiver, 32. A furnace
for digestions, tinctures, etc. f, a vessel, containing the ingredients
to be digested. r, a blind head. 33. Two stills at work with one common
refrigeratory, a, the body of the largest still. b, its head. f, the
receiver. e, the body of the smallest still. d, its head, g, a spout
receiver for separating oil from water.
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