A rich cabinet with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious sirpits [sic] at their vacant hours : Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, air, and vvater. And fire works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
- White, John, -1671
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- 1658
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Rich cabinet with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours
Added engraved title page: Rich cabinet with variety of inventions in several arts and siences
Publication/Creation
London : printed for VVilliam Gilbertson at the sign of the Bible without New-gate in Giltspur-street, 1658.
Physical description
16 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations
Contributors
Edition
The third edition, with many additions.
References note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) W1790A
Notes
The epistle is signed: John White.
A1v contains "The authour to his book" (in verse); A1r is blank.
With four preliminary index leaves.
Stained and tightly bound; some print show-through.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2162:14) s1999 miun s