A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits
Subtitle: being receits 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 are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks, together with several curious receits of great use collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c.
By: by John White ...
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The sixth edition, with many additions.
Publisher: Printed for William Whitwood ...
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.; Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Wing W1793A
Added engraved t.p., illustrated, dated 1688.
Signatures: A-I⁸.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.