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 of Lincolns-Inne, Knight. Whereunto is added, A rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins; with the vertues and use thereof, By D.B. Gent.
Sir Hugh Plat (1552-1611)
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3126654
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],232p. . ill.. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Worm damage to margins and boards. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Seventeenth-century shelfmark (?) on flyleaf: T. W..t. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed in Norris's hand on flyleaf: Bicton House Liby. S. [i.e. Sotheby's] 3/7 46 Lot 406 Đ4. Margins wormed. [Bicton House, Devon, belonged to the Rolle family]. Pencil shelfmark (not in Norris's hand?): Pb.13.6.. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sheep over boards; blind fillets; no endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Hugh Plat (1552-1611) Arnold Boate (1600-1653)