A book of rarities: or, Cabinet of curiosities unlock'd, [electronic resource] : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eldridge, Tho. (Thomas).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rare books--Early works to 1800.

Rare books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16p., plate ) port. ;

Other Title:

Book of rarities

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and said by the author, 1743.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N32408.

OCLC:

508144887