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• Author/Creator:Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608.
  
• Title:The jewel house of art and nature: containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chimical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof. Faithfully an familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience. By Sir Hugh Plat of Lincolns-Inne, 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.
  
• Published/Created:London : printed by Bernard Alsop, and are to be sold at his house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653.
  
• Physical Description:[8], 232 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
  

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: 2016 964
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN 2016 964: Leaf D2 torn and repaired with tape.
  
• Notes:Originally published as "The jewell house of art and nature" in 1594.
  The authorship of "An additional discourse of several sorts of stones," by D.B. Gent. (p. 217-232) and the editorship of the entire work are attributed to Arnold Boate. Cf. DNB.
  
• Variant and related titles:Jewell house of art and nature
  
• Format:Book
• References:Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), P2390
  English short title catalogue, R12749
  
• Subjects:Industrial arts--History--Early works to 1800.
  Formulas, recipes, etc.--Early works to 1800.
  Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
  Agriculture.
  Formulas, recipes, etc.
  Industrial arts.
  
• Genre/Form:Early works.
  History.
  
• Also listed under:Boate, Arnold, 1600?-1653?
  England--London.