Mackenzie, Colin

FIVE THOUSAND RECEIPTS IN ALL THE USEFUL AND DOMESTIC ARTS : CONSTITUTING A COMPLETE AND UNIVERSAL PRACTICAL LIBRARY, AND OPERATIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Philadelphia, PA: J.J. Woodward, 1829. Leather-bound. Full leather, missing sizeable leather segments at head and foot of spine, front and rear cover. Black leather title/author label. 546 p. 23 cm. Many pages browned but none to obscure reading of them. Foxing and staining throughout, but not to obscure reading.

Recipes in the arts of domestic and social life. Includes artists oil colors, medicine, husbandry, dyeing, confectionary, chocolate, coffee, acorn coffee (from Germany, used also in the 2nd world war). If you want to know how it was done in 1829, here It is. Indispensible to historians, authors, movie producers etc. Good Only. Item #82416

Price: $75.00