A book of rarities: or, Cabinet of curiosities unlock'd, : By the key of experience. Containing near an hundred useful and diverting amusements, with a new mthod of making artificial gardens; Italian shades; moving pictures; use of optick insruments; to make ornaments in immitation of China; to make a new invented machine, by which a common hour-glass shows the hour of the day; to make quills hard as steel; invisible writing; to make a Hortus Siccus; to keep kidney beans green all the year; to take the true picture of any herb a new treatise on making English wines, and many other rarities never before made publick, with curious copper print of the author, Tho. Eldridge, F.C.N.
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Author / Creator: | Eldridge, Tho. (Thomas). |
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Imprint: | London : Printed and said by the author, 1743. |
Description: | 16p., plate : port. ; 4⁰. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Rare books -- Early works to 1800. Rare books. Early works. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10244866 |