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 conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof, faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience
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
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. DNB.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Wing P2391
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