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.
| Author/creator | Eldridge, Tho |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed and said by the author, 1743. |
| Description | 16 pages, plate : portrait ; 4⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N32408. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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