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PLATT (HUGH)
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 Chymical Conclusion Concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof... Whereunto is Added, a Rare and Excellent Discourse of Minerals, Stones, Gums and Rosins

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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PLATT (HUGH)

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 Chymical Conclusion Concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof... Whereunto is Added, a Rare and Excellent Discourse of Minerals, Stones, Gums and Rosins, title within typographical borders, numerous woodcut illustrations (including "The true portrait of an Ear of Summer Barley, as it Grew at Bishop's Hall in Middlesx, Anno Dom. 1594"), small loss to blank foremargin of title, blindstamp on opening 3 leaves, early calf, refurbished [Wing P2390; Goldsmiths 1294; Kress 889; Bitting, p.476], small 4to, Elizabeth Alsop, 1653

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