Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets

“Or a collection of above 500 useful receipts on a variety of subjects." First published in 1861. The Introduction begins: "The object of the present work is clearly announced in its title. It is to collect within a small compass the instructions of experimental knowledge upon a great variety of subjects which relate to the present interests of man. It contains above five hundred genuine and practical receipts, which have been compiled by the publisher with extreme difficulty and expense.”