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Published by Bumpus & Griffin London, 1831.

THE
ART OF GLASS-BLOWING,
OR
PLAIN INSTRUCTIONS
FOR MAKING THE
CHEMICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
INSTRUMENTS
WHICH ARE FORMED OF GLASS;
SUCH AS
BAROMETERS, THERMOMETERS, HYDROMETERS,
Hour-Glasses, Funnels, Syphons,
TUBE VESSELS FOR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS,
TOYS FOR RECREATIVE PHILOSOPHY, &c.

BY A FRENCH ARTIST.

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY BUMPUS AND GRIFFIN, 3, SKINNER-STREET;
AND RICHARD GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW:
SOLD ALSO BY STILLIES, BROTHERS, EDINBURGH. 1831.

W. WILSON, PRINTER, 57, SKINNER-STREET, LONDON.

THE
POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY.

The design of the Publishers of the Polytechnic Library is to produce a Series of highly-instructive Works, which the Public may be tempted to buy, because they will be cheap,—be induced to read, because they will be brief,—be competent to understand, because they will be clearly written,—and be able to profit by, because they will be WORKS OF PRACTICAL UTILITY. Every volume, therefore, will contain a complete Treatise relating to one of the useful arts or sciences, or the chemical or mechanical trades.

JUST PUBLISHED, PRICE HALF-A-CROWN,
VOL. I. of the POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY,
Neatly printed in 18mo. and bound in Cloth, containing
THE ART OF GLASS-BLOWING,
Or Plain Instructions for Making the
CHEMICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS
WHICH ARE FORMED OF GLASS;
Such as
BAROMETERS, THERMOMETERS, HYDROMETERS,
Hour-Glasses, Funnels, Syphons,
TUBE-VESSELS FOR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS,
TOYS FOR RECREATIVE PHILOSOPHY, &c.

BY A FRENCH ARTIST.

ILLUSTRATED BY UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED FIGURES,
Elegantly engraved on Copper plates.

Artists and Students of the Experimental Sciences will find this work adapted to aid them effectually in the economical preparation of their Apparatus; and persons who would willingly occupy their leisure hours in practising the charming art of working Glass and Enamels with the Blowpipe, but who have hitherto been deterred by the anticipated expense of the instruments, and the imaginary difficulties of the undertaking, are taught herein the simplest, most expeditious, least expensive, and most effectual methods of working Glass into every variety of useful or fanciful device.

PUBLISHED BY BUMPUS & GRIFFIN, SKINNER-STREET, LONDON;
R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW;
AND STILLIES, BROTHERS, EDINBURGH.

THE FOLLOWING WORKS, INTENDED TO FORM PART OF
THE POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY,
Are nearly ready for Publication.
THE
DOMESTIC CHEMIST;
Comprising Instructions for
THE DETECTION OF ADULTERATIONS
In numerous Articles employed in
DOMESTIC ECONOMY & THE ARTS.
To which is prefixed,
THE ART OF DETECTING POISONS IN FOOD AND
ORGANIC MIXTURES.

Contents.

PART I.—Instructions for the Detection of Mineral Poisons in Vegetable or Animal Mixtures.—Copper, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Iron, Barytes, Lime, Alumina, Potash, Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Muriatic Acid.

PART II.—Instructions for the Examination of Articles supposed to be Adulterated.—Alcohol, Ale, Anchovy Sauce, Arrow-Root, Beer, Brandy, Bread, Calomel, Carmine, Cayenne Pepper, Cheese, Chocolate, Chrome Yellow, Cinnamon, Cloves, Cochineal, Coffee, Confectionery, Crabs’ Eyes, Cream, Cream of Tartar, Epsom Salts, Flour, Gin, Gum Arabic, Spirits of Hartshorn, Honey, Hops, Ipecacuanha, Isinglass, Ketchup, Lakes, Leeches, Lemon Acid, Litharge, Magnesia, Milk, Mushrooms, Mustard, Olive Oil, Parsley, Pepper, Peruvian Bark, Pickles, Porter, Red Oxide of Mercury, Rhubarb, Sal Ammoniac, Salt, Saltpetre, Soap, Soluble Tartar, Spanish Liquorice, Spirits, Sugar, Sulphur, Tamarinds, Tapioca, Tartaric Acid, Tartar Emetic, Tea, Ultramarine, Verdigris, Vermilion, Vinegar, Volatile Oils, Wax, White Lead, Wine, Water,(including directions for testing the purity of all descriptions of Rain, River, or Spring Water.)

PART III.—Instructions for the Preparation of the Tests employed in Domestic Chemistry and for the Performance of various Chemical Operations; with Description of the Glasses and Apparatus proper to be employed.

⁂ The work is written in a popular manner, and intended for the use of Families, Publicans, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Oilmen, Manufacturers, Apothecaries, Physicians, Coroners, and Jurymen.—Price Three Shillings.