City Readers Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library

A thousand notable things, on various subjects; disclosed from the secrets of nature and art ; practicable, profitable, and of great advantage; ... down from long and curious study and experience, for the greater part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated authors of the Ancients and Moderns. Being a rich Cabinet of select Curiosities and Rarities, in one volume, digested into fourteen books, for the general use and good of Mankind; with strict amendments, and large additions, to what formerly has been published in this kind; exceeding any other for the multitude of pleasing variety herein to be found.