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Powder for destroying insects on board ships, granaries and store-houses on shore, and on land, gardens, &c.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Henry, inventor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insecticides--Early works to 1800.
- Insecticides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet )
- Other Title:
- Powder for destroying insects on board ships,
- Place of Publication:
- [London, 1790?]
- Notes:
- A proposal by the House of Lords to present an address to the King on "a certain powder" is quoted in the text and which identifies the inventor as "Mr. Henry Phillips", who at foot of the sheet states that "my manufactory" is in Knightsbridge.
- Includes a list of Royal Navy captains from "His Majesty's packets, January, 1789".
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T225967.
- OCLC:
- 642550515
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