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.

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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.
Author
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Publication
London :: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower ... and James Partridge...,
1685.
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Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47660.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2025.

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Books Printed for, and Sold by Matthew Gillyflower, at the Spread-Eagle in Westminster-Hall, and James Partridge, at the Post-house near Charing-Cross.

  • PArthenissa, the most fam'd Romance, in six Volumes compleat; Compos'd by the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery.
  • Townsend's Historical Collections, being a compleat Journal of the Lords and Com∣mons in the four last Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth; in which, the Motions, Argu∣ments and Speeches of Cecil, Bacon, Rawleigh, Hobby, and other eminent Members of those Parliaments are faithfully deliver'd, by Hay∣ward Townsend a Member of those Parlia∣ments.
  • Clavel's Tables of Interest, of all Sums from 10000 l. to one Shilling, from one day to 365, with Tables of Forbearance, Discount and Purchase of Annuities to 31 years; by which, all useful Questions in Arithmetick are truly resolved by Addition only; for∣merly printed for the Use of His Majesties Exchequer, Custom-house, and Excise-Of∣fice, but now reprinted for publick Good.
  • Sir Robert Filmers Political Discourses, viz. Patriarcha, The Free-holders Grand Inquest, &c.
  • ...The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great,

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  • written by that Famous Philosopher and General Xenophon of Athens, and from the Original Greek made English by Francis Digby and John Norris.
  • Hobbs's Tripos, being three Discourses, viz. The first of Humane Nature, or the Funda∣mental Elements of Policy.
  • —The second, De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law Moral and Politick.
  • —The third of Liberty, Necessity and Chance.
  • The Daily Office of a Christian, being the Devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God, Doctor William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury, the fourth Edition.
  • The Humble Penitent, or daily Devotions, consisting of Thanksgivings, Confessions and Prayers, the third Edition.
  • The Lord Bacon's Apothegms.
  • Of the Law-Terms▪ A Discourse written by the Learned Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman Knight, wherein the Laws of the Jews, Greci∣ans, Romans, Saxons and Normans relating to this Subject are fully explained.
  • The Learned Readings of Sir Robert Hol∣bourn Knight, Attorney General to King Charles the First, upon the Statute of 25 of Edward the 3d. Cap. 2. being the Statute of Treason; to which is added Cases of Prero∣gative, Treason, Misprision of Treason, Fe∣lony, &c. written by the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Al∣bane.
  • ...

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  • The Fundamentals of the Protestant Religion asserted, by Reason as well as Scripture, against those of the Roman, written in French by the famous Monsieur de Gombaut, made English by Sidney Lodge. To which is added his Letters to Monsieur de Militier, and other Personages of the French Court touching Religion.
  • Essays of Michael Seignieur de Montaigne, with Marginal Notes and Quotations of the cited Authors; new rendred into English by Charles Cotton Esq
  • The Refin'd Courtier, or a Correction of se∣veral Indecencies crept into Civil Conver∣sation, being a Translation and Paraphrase of Galateus de Moribus.
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