Portable instructions for purchasing the drugs and spices of Asia and the East-Indies: pointing out the distinguishing characteristics of those that are genuine, and the arts practised in their adulteration. With practical directions for the choice of diamonds, and an accurate account of the Chinese touch-needles, or, the method of judging of the fineness of gold by its colour. To which is prefixed, a table of the Custom-House duties at London. Compiled from respectable authority by H. D. S.
- Steel, Henry Draper, 1756-1818.
- Date:
- [1779]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for D. Steel, Number 1, Union-Row, the lower-end of the Minories, Little Tower-Hill. M.DCC.LXXIX. Entered at Stationers-Hall, according to Act of Parliament, [1779]
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6,[4],4,96p. ; 80.
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References note
ESTC T131445
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.