Domestic amusements, or, Philosophical recreations

Domestic amusements, or, Philosophical recreations : containing the results of various experiments in practical science and the useful arts, applicable to the business of real life, to curious research and elegant recreation : including numerous useful tests of adulterations in the materials that conduce to health, and an account of new and important discoveries in natural philosophy .... ''Being a sequel volume to Philosophical recreations, or, Winter amusements''--t.p. Errata: p. viii after the preface. Index (classed but not alphabetized): p. [ix]-xx. Preface dated: Hoxton, February 1823. The folded hand-colored copperplate frontispiece is dated Oct. 1st 1829.