Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715. Recueil des curiositez rares et nouvelles des plus admirables effets de la nature et de l'art. English

Modern curiosities of art & nature : extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.