The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in in [sic] the art of husbandry, with divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof ..

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Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?

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The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in in [sic] the art of husbandry, with divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof ... / by Sir Hugh Plat ... Knight ; whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins, with the vertues and use thereof, by D.B. Gent.

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London : Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her house ..., 1653.

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8 unnumbered pages, 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 16 cm

1 online resource.

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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. Dictionary of national biography.

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 01294.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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Making of the modern world. Part I, 1450-1850.

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