A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : Being receipts and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belong to that art. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.

  • White, John, -1671
Date:
1677
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Rich cabinet with variety of invensions in several arts and siences.

Publication/Creation

London : printed for William Whitwood at the sign of the Golden Bell in Duck-Lane near Smith-field, 1677.

Physical description

14 unnumbered pages, 190, 41 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (woodcuts).

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Edition

The fifth edition, with many additions.

Notes

J.W. = John White.
With an additional title page, engraved: A rich cabinet with variety of invensions in several arts and siences.
With a final advertisment page.
Text and register continuous despite pagination.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) W1792

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2120:10) s1999 miun s

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