A book of rarities: or, Cabinet of curiosities unlock'd , By the key of experience. Containing near an hundred useful and diverting amusements, with a new mthod of making artificial gardens; Italian shades; moving pictures; use of optick insruments; to make ornaments in immitation of China; to make a new invented machine, by which a common hour-glass shows the hour of the day; to make quills hard as steel; invisible writing; to make a Hortus Siccus; to keep kidney beans green all the year; to take the true picture of any herb a new treatise on making English wines, and many other rarities never before made publick, with curious copper print of the author, Tho. Eldridge, F.C.N.

Date:

1743