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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours. Being receipts and conceits ... fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works ... Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy ... Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belond to that art.

Title
A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours. Being receipts and conceits ... fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works ... Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy ... Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belond to that art. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
Author
White, John, 1586?-1671
Publication
London, Printed for William Whitwood, 1677.

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Additional Authors
W. J.
Description
8 p. l., 190, 41(1) p. illus.; 17 cm. (8vo.)
Subject
  • Industrial arts
  • Formulas, recipes, etc. > Early works to 1800
  • Mathematics
  • Fireworks
  • Change ringing
Note
  • Added t.-p. signed: T. Cross fecit.
  • "Exact rules for ringing all sorts of plain changes, and cross peals," 41 p. at end.
  • Publisher's advertisements, p. [42] at end.
Indexed In (note)
  • Hazlitt
Local note
  • Imperfect: p. 21-22 of second paging mutilated, first leaf (blank) wanting.
  • With bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, 1881.
  • Helen Hay Whitney Collection.
Call Number
*KC 1677 (White, J. Rich cabinet, with variety of inventions)
OCLC
29125937
Author
White, John, 1586?-1671.
Title
A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours. Being receipts and conceits ... fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works ... Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy ... Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belond to that art. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
Imprint
London, Printed for William Whitwood, 1677.
Edition
The fifth edition, with many additions.
Indexed In:
Hazlitt, III, 2. suppl., 94
Local Note
Imperfect: p. 21-22 of second paging mutilated, first leaf (blank) wanting.
With bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, 1881.
Helen Hay Whitney Collection.
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W. J.
Research Call Number
*KC 1677 (White, J. Rich cabinet, with variety of inventions)
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