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• File:Gold leaf which has been overheated
• File:Glass-stoppered bottle containing iron
• File:Glass-stoppered bottle containing copper
• File:Glass-stoppered bottle containing silver
• File:Glass-stoppered bottle containing tin
• File:Glass-stoppered bottle containing gold
• File:Glass-stoppered bottle containing lead
• File:One book: "No.17 Barlet, Cours de la Physique Resolutive".
• File:Book: 'Liber de Arte Distillandi de Compositis', written by Hieronymus von Brunschwig, (Grosses Destillierbuch). 1512.
• File:One book: Elias Ashmole "Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum", London, 1652.
• File:"Viatorium Spagyricum" by Herbrandt Jamsthaler and "Crede Mike seu Ordinale genaudt" by Thomas Norton, 1625, bound with the "Pharmacopoea Persica", 1681, in one volume.
• File:Bronze figure of an alchemist signed "E PICAULT"', French, late 19th century/early 20th century
• File:Book: Limojon de Saint-Didier, Alexandre-Toussaint, ca. 1630-1689: The Hermetical triumph: or, The victorious philosophical stone : a treatise ... concerning the hermetical magistery
• File:Book: Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682: Tripus hermeticus fatidicus, 1689
• File:Book: Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682: Physica subterranea, 1738
• File:Book: Philalethes, Eirenaeus, pseud.: Chymische Schriften, aus einigen alten MSten aufs fleissigste verbessert … 5 ed., 1669
• File:Book: Croll, Oswald, ca. 1560-1609: Bazilica chymica, & Praxis chymiatricae, or, Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises., 1670
• File:Book: Ercker, Lazarus: Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, …, 1736
• File:Book: Basilius Valentinus: Of natural & supernatural things, 1671 bound with Hollandus, Johann Isaac. A Work of Saturn
• File:Book: Basilius Valentinus: Chymische Schriften, aus einigen alten MSten aufs fleissigste verbessert … 5 ed., 1740.
• File:Book: Anon: Artis auriferae, quam chemiam vocant, volumina duo, quae continent Turbam philosophorum aliosque antiquiss, 1610.
• File:Book: Ercker, Lazarus: Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt vnnd Bergtwercks arten, wie dieselbigen, vnd eine jede in sonderheit, …, 1580
• File:Book:Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615: De distillatione lib. IX, 1608.
• File:Book: Kartzenmacher, Petrus: Alchimia : wie man alle Farben, Wasser, Olea, Salia, und Alumina, …., 1538
• File:Book: Philalethes, Eirenaeus, pseud.: Ripley reviv'd: or An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works., 1678.
• File:Book: Lacinio, Giano: Pretiosa margarita novella de thesauro : ac pretiosissimo philosophorum lapide. Artis hujus divinae typus, & methodus, 1546.
• File:Book: Libavius, Andreas: Alchymia ... : recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis, ..., 1606.
• File:Book: Mylius, Johann Daniel, b. 1585 or 6.: Tractatus III. Seu Basilica Philosophica Continens Lib. III: 1. Horum prior continet Philosophorum ac sapientum antiquorum Consilia super Lapidem Philosophorum seu Medicinam vniuersalem…., 1618.
• File:Alchemical scroll of painted mystical symbols, paper, linen backed, European, 18th century
• File:Alchemical pot, one of three, earthenware, European, 1701-1900
• File:Bottle, clear glass, empty, bearing alchemical symbol for mercury, English, 1851-1900
• File:Glass albarello with alchemical symbol on side