Plat (Sir Hugh) 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 Chimical conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation..., second edition, title with woodcut ornamental border and illustration of record ear of barley on verso, woodcut illustrations, title with ink initials at head & small ink stain and browned at edges, one or two old manuscript notes, a few other small stains, mostly to last few leaves, modern calf, spine gilt and faded, [Wing P2390], small 4to, Bernard Alsop, 1653.

⁂ Compendium of useful household information including instructions on storing fruit and flowers, "how to carry gold in a most secret manner", brewing, "how to speak by signs onely", stealing bees, preventing drunkeness, helping smoking chmineys, killing rats, keeping oysters good ten or twelve days, distilling etc. First published in 1594 this edition also includes a discourse on minerals by Arnold Boate.