Alembics, English, 15th century.

Title page to a book on alchemy, 1672.

Combined alembic and cucurbit, probably 19th century.

'Le chimiste en operation', an engraving showing an alchemist at work.

Alembic, used in distillation, 18th century.

Models of crystal models.

The alchemist, Paris, c 1850.

'The Alchemist Doctor', 1736-1791.

Islamic alembic, 10th-12th century.

Islamic alembic , 10th-12th century.

Islamic sublimation and alembic apparatus, 10th-12th century.

Islamic alembic apparatus, 10th-12th century.