The jewel house of art and nature: containing divers rare and profitable inventions together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation. And the rare practises and uses thereof / Faithfully and familiarly set down ... By Sir Hugh Plat ... Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins; with the vertues and use thereof, by D.B. Gent.
- Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608.
- Date:
- 1653
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, 1653.
Physical description
4 unnumbered leaves, 232 pages : woodcuts, illustrations ; (4to)
Notes
The authorship of the "Discourse of several sorts of stones," by D. B. gent. (p. 217-232) and the editorship of the entire work is attributed to Arnold de Boate. cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Copy 2 Note: Bound with: Power, H. Experimental philosophy. 1664.
References note
Wing P2391
ESTC R10675
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), P2391