Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts, Constituting a Complete and Universal Practical Library, and Operative Cyclopaedia
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. 1827. Very Good. Item #48390
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. for John Grigg, Uriah Hunt, Towar & Hoga, R.H. Small, M'Carty & Davis, Thomas de Silver, 1827. Octavo; full contemporary mottled sheep, black gilt spine label; 661pp. (collated complete). Leather a bit rubbed and dried at margins with fairly extensive surface scratches to both boards, textblock uniformly browned, bottom half of front free endpaper torn away. Still a Good to Very Good example, contemporary ownership signature of a Benjamin Almy to front flyleaf.
Oft republished and imminently useful household reference work, with sections on mixing paint; staining glass and porcelain; brewing; winemaking (quince, orange, parsnip); perfumes and cosmetics; and remedies for various ailments, including those of postpartum mothers (sore breasts, milk fever, etc).
Shoemaker 29577; Lowenstein 106.
Price: $200.00