Beschreibung:

Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in in [sic] the Art of Husbandry. With divers Chymical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, second edition, title with woodcut border, woodcut illustrations, title creased, first gathering a little damp-stained, shaved at foot, with occasional loss to signatures and catch-words, R3 with hole to margin, not affecting text, 2G1 with 2 chips to foot, touching text, 20th century half calf, [Bitting p.373; Kress 889; Goldsmiths' 1294; Simon BG 1186; Wing P2390], printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653.