The jewel house of art and nature
Subtitle: containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof.
By: Faithfully and familiarly set down ... By Sir Hugh Plat ... Whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins; with the vertues and use thereof, by D. B. gent.
Contributors: Boate, Arnold, 1600?-1653?
Publisher: Printed by Elizabeth Alsop
Published: 1653
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Industrial arts -- History.; Recipes.; Agriculture.
Notes: The authorship of the "Discourse of several sorts of stones," by D. B. gent. (p. 217-232) and the editorship of the entire work is attributed to Arnold de Boate. cf. Dict. nat. biog.