The elements of water-drawing, or, A compendious abstract of all sorts and kinds of water-machins or gins, used or practised in the world ... : as also new exquisite ways and machins never before published : with a philosophical discourse, and new discovery of drawing water out of great deeps by fier : where is also disapproved the perpetual motion, the water-poise, the syphon or philosophers engine, the horizontal sails, with divers other experiments : published for the improving the service of the mineral world, for supplying our most necessary wants of firing, for raising of water for cities and towns, and for watering and draining of grounds.
1659
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Title
The elements of water-drawing, or, A compendious abstract of all sorts and kinds of water-machins or gins, used or practised in the world ... : as also new exquisite ways and machins never before published : with a philosophical discourse, and new discovery of drawing water out of great deeps by fier : where is also disapproved the perpetual motion, the water-poise, the syphon or philosophers engine, the horizontal sails, with divers other experiments : published for the improving the service of the mineral world, for supplying our most necessary wants of firing, for raising of water for cities and towns, and for watering and draining of grounds.
Uniform title
Art of water-drawing
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho. Leach, for Henry Brome, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie Lane, [1659 or 1660?]
Description
[8], 41, [1] p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Associated name
Note
Preface signed: R. D'acres, a pseudonym; sometimes ascribed (on insufficient evidence) to Robert Thornton.
Imprint date 1659 in MS. note on titlepage of British Library copy; Wing suggests 1660.
Signatures: *⁴ A-D⁴ E⁴ [F]1.
Errata: *4r.
Imprint date 1659 in MS. note on titlepage of British Library copy; Wing suggests 1660.
Signatures: *⁴ A-D⁴ E⁴ [F]1.
Errata: *4r.
Reproduction
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms International, 1983. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1423:4)
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), ESTCR29396
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), E494
Hazlitt, III, 53
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, v. 2, p. 332
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), E494
Hazlitt, III, 53
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, v. 2, p. 332
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
256- 923q
Folger-specific note
In modern half-goat over red cloth with marbled end-papers.