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 Chymcal Conclusions Concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof... Whereunto is Added, a Rare and Excellent Discourse of Minerals, Stones, Gums and Rosins, title within border of typographical ornaments, woodcut illustrations in the text (including "The true portrait of an Ear of Summer Barley, as it Grew at Bishop's Hall in Middlesex, Anno Dom. 1594"), some dampstaining to upper edges of first few leaves, endpapers browned, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked [ESTC R10675; cf. Bitting p.373, Goldsmiths 1294 & Kress 889, all Bernard Alsop imprint], small 4to (188 x 140mm.), Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her House in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653

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The "most significant book" (ODNB) by Sir Hugh Plat (1552-1608), the eccentric husbandman and inventor. Plat lived at Bishop's Hall, Bethnal Green, and conducted numerous horticultural, agricultural and mechanical experiments ranging from the practical to the fantastic. The 103 experiments described include recipes for preserving food, herbs, fruit, flowers, meat and water, and for a tooth-cleaner. Other parts deal with soils, manures, distillations, moulding and casting metals, and diverse topics such as the brewing of beer without hops, fishing, how to cheat at cards and how to steal a beehive. The work was first published in 1594, and the present edition was revised and expanded by Arnold de Boate in 1653; there are two issues, this bearing the imprint of Elizabeth Alsop as opposed to that of her husband, Bernard Alsop, who may have died that year.

Provenance: Henry Seymour, bookplate.

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