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Author: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Title: 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.
Print source: 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.
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.

London: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower ... and James Partridge..., 1685.
Alternate titles: Recueil des curiositez rares et nouvelles des plus admirables effets de la nature et de l'art. English
Notes:
Translation of: Recueil des curiositez rares et nouvelles des plus admirables effets de la nature et de l'art.
Added engraved t.p.
Advertisements ([5] p.) at end.
Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
Subject terms:
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Recipes.
Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
URL: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A47660.0001.001
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Table of Contents
THE CONTENTS.
part 1
CHAP. I.
Wonderful Secrets which must be collected and compounded according to the Influences of the Stars, to cure the In∣firmities hereafter specified in a short time. CHAP. IV.
Of Jewels and Pearls. CHAP. VI.
Modern Curiosities OF ART and NATURE. Containing the whole Art of Moulding and Casting all sorts of Figures, Me∣dals and other Forms in Lead, Tin, Silver, Copper, Plaister of Paris, Wax, Sulphur and otherwise, as well hol∣low as sollid.