| A Cornish Stiller of Herbs |
Frontispiece |
| Symbols of Distillation |
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3 |
| Alchemist in his Laboratory |
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5 |
| Alchemist performing Mystic Rites |
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7 |
| Diaphragm Churn |
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10 |
| Melotte Cream Separator |
To face |
page |
10 |
| A Small Butter-worker |
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11 |
| Milk-Strainer for use with Muslin |
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13 |
| Double Pan for Devonshire Cream-raising |
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13 |
| A Self-skimming Porcelain Milk-pan |
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14 |
| Butter-scoop |
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14 |
| Old Distilling Furnaces and Stills |
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35 |
| Distilling Oyle out of Seedes |
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43 |
| A Fruit-room |
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59 |
| Orr’s Fruit-storing Trays |
To face |
page |
60 |
| Lee’s Steam Fruit Preserving Apparatus |
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62 |
| Ryland’s Fruit Bottles |
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64 |
| Lee’s Fruit Bottles and Boiler |
To face |
page |
64 |
| Barnett and Foster’s Spile-drawer |
Page |
74 |
| A Group of Drinking-glasses |
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82 |
| A Group of Ancient Bottles |
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83 |
| A Simple Fruit-mill |
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84 |
| Cork-driver |
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84 |
| A Group of Modern Bottles |
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86 |
| A Wine Filter-bag |
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88 |
| Balneum Mariæ |
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93 |
| Distilling by Heat of Steam |
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93 |
| Some old Distilling Vessels |
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95 |
| Distilling by Heat of Fermenting Manure |
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97 |
| Alchemist with his Servant |
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97 |
| A 16th-century Still, with Condenser Jacket to Helm of Still |
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99 |
| “The Instrument named the Pellicane” |
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99 |
| Stills at the Works of the London Essence Co. |
To face |
page |
100 |
| Balneum Mariæ |
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101 |
| Furnace with Stills |
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101 |
| Still-room of the London Essence Co. |
To face |
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102 |
| Furnace with Stills |
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103 |
| Persian Rose-water Sprinkler |
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104 |
| A Perforated Water-bath |
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105 |
| A Portable Copper Still |
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105 |
| Old Apparatus used for condensing the Distillate |
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107 |
| “Beholde here a Manner or Fashion of Balneo Mariæ” |
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109 |
| Old Vessels used in Distilling |
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110 |
| Tending the Furnace |
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110 |
| Balneum Mariæ |
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110 |
| Copper Spirit-measure |
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115 |
| Copper Funnel |
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115 |
| Coffee Roaster |
To face |
page |
120 |
| Beer Warmer or Muller |
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122 |
| Some Old Mortars |
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131 |
| Persian Incense Burner |
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147 |
