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  • Recipes & remedies of early England garnered from many and diverse sources and here set forth by Violet & Hal W. Trovillion.

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    • Herrin, Ill., Printed and are to be sold by Trovillion Private Press, 1946.
    • 1946
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    Text *KP (Trovillion) (Trovillion, V. D. M. Recipes & remedies of early England)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The early modern Englishwoman : a facsimile library of essential works. Series III, Essential works for the study of early modern women. Part 3 / selected and introduced by Paula McQuade ; general editors, Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott.

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    • Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008-
    • 2008-present
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    Text JFK 08-125 v. 5Offsite
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  • A curious collection of remedies taken from a book of notable things / with an embellishment by Duine Campbell.

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    • Leicester : Offcut Press, 1967.
    • 1967
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    Text *KP (Offcut) 07-21Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Delightes for ladies, to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories ...

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    • London, Printed by P. Short, 1603.
    • 1603
  • The Complete family-piece [electronic resource] : and, Country gentleman ; and, Farmer's best guide : in three parts : with a complete alphabetical index to each part.

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    • London : C. Rivington ; S. Birt ; T. Longman ; C. Hitch ; J. Clarke, 1741.
    • 1741
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  • Delights for ladies, to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters ...

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    • London, Printed by R. [Young] 1635.
    • 1635
  • Some early treatises on technological chemistry / by John Ferguson.

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    • Glasgow : Printed by Robert Anderson, 1888.
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
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    Text Arents BIP (Ferguson, J. Some early treatises) 01-363a. Housed with Arents BIP 01-363b.Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Some early treatises on technological chemistry. Supplement [I]-V / by John Ferguson.

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    • Glasgow : Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1894-1916.
    • 1894-1916
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    Text Arents BIP (Ferguson, J. Some early treatises) 01-363b. Housed with Arents BIP 01-363a.Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • The jewel house of art and nature: containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chimical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof. Faithfully and familiarly set down ... By Sir Hugh Plat ... Wherunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins; with the vertues and use thereof. By D.B. Gent.

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    • London, Printed by B. Alsop, 1653.
    • 1653
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    Text *KC 1653 (Plat, H. Jewel house of art and nature (With autograph: I. Tickell, 1773))Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The recipe from the XIIth to the XVIIth centuries : Europe, Islam, Far East / edited by Bruno Laurioux and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani.

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    • Firenze : SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023.
    • 2023
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    Text ReCAP 24-68310Offsite
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  • Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades: or, Approved directions, from the best artists, for the various methods of engraving on brass ... Of the composition of metals ... Of taking out all sorts of sports and stains ...

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    • Norwich [Conn.] Printed by Thomas Hubbard, 1795.
    • 1795
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    Text *KD 1795 (Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades) Copy 1 8-*KD 1795 (Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades) Copy 2Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades: or approved directions, from the best artists, [electronic resource] : for the Various Methods Of engraving on Brass, Copper, or Steel. Of the Composition of Metals. -of Varnishes. Of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing-Wax. &c. &c. Of the Glass Manufactory. Various Imitations of Precious Stones, and French Paste. Of Colours and Painting, useful for Carriage Painters. Of Painting on Paper. Of Compositions for Limners. Of transparent Colours. Colours to dye Skins or Gloves. To colour or varnish Copper-Plate Prints. Of Painting on Glass. Of Colours of all Sorts, for Oil, Water, and Crayons. Of preparing the Lapis Lazuli, to make Ultramarine. Of the Art of Gilding. The Art of dying Woods, Bones, &c. The Art of Casting in Moulds. Of making useful Sorts of Ink. The Art of making Wines. Of the Composition of Vinegars. Of Liquors, Essential Oils, &c. Of the Consectionary Business. The Art of preparing Snuffs. Of taking out Spots and Stains. Art of Fishing, Angling, Bird-Catching, &c. And Subjects curious, entertaining, and useful. Containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades.

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    • London : printed and sold by Will. Hay, Printer and Bookseller to the Society of Artists of Great Britain, at the Shop next Door to their Exhibition-Hall, near Exeter Charge, Strand, MDCCLXXV. [1775]
    • 1775
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  • The compleat vermin-killer: a valuable and useful companion for families, in town and country: Containing safe and quick methods of Destroying Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Rats, Mice, Moles, Weazels, Caterpillars, Frogs, Pismires, Snails, Flies, Moths, Earwigs, Wasps, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, And Fish and Birds of all Kinds, &c. &c. To which are added useful family receipts, for the preparation of medicines, for the cure of common disorders. The gentleman farrier; or, Directions for the Purchase, Management, and Cure of Horses. The Compendious Gardener and Husbandman; or, Observations Relative to Gardening, Husbandry, &c. With divers other Matters, well worthy the Notice of the Country Gentleman, the Farmer, and every House-Keeper [electronic resource].

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    • London : printed for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]
    • 1777
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  • The golden cabinet: being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts. Containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people ...

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    • Philadelphia, Printed and sold by William Spotswood, and H. and P. Rice, Market-street. 1793.
    • 1793
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    Text *KD 1793 (Golden cabinet)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Compositiones variae (an introductory study) By Rozelle Parker Johnson ...

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    • Urbana, Ill., 1933.
    • 1933
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    Text Tec 300.01Off-site
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  • Natürliches Zauber-Buch : order: Neu-eröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste, in welchem nicht allein alle Taschen-Spieler- und andere curiöse mathematische und physicalische Künste, sondern auch die gebräuchlichen Karten-Würffel Billard und andere Spiele aufs genaueste beschrieben ... werden.

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    • Lindau : Antiqua-Verlag, 1978.
    • 1978-1745
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    Text MZC 80-657Offsite
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  • The young ladies school of arts. [electronic resource] : Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, Shell-Work, Gilding, Painting, Cosmetics, Jellies, Preserves, Cakes, Cordials, Creams, Jamms, Pickles, Candying, Made Wines, Clear Starching, &c together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

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    • York : printed for R. Spence in High-Ousegate 1784.
    • 1784
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  • A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits. Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. By John White a lover of artificial conclusions.

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    • London, Printed for M. Whitwood, 1689.
    • 1689
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    Text *KC 1689 (White, J. Rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Mappae clavicula; a little key to the world of medieval techniques. [Edited and translated by] Cyril Stanley Smith and John G. Hawthorne.

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    • Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1974.
    • 1974
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  • Trattato de merauigliosi secreti / nouamente composto dal S. Iosua Ferro ; la notitia de molti de' quali, nissun hà hauuto sin'al [sic] dì d'hoggi, nè li hà potuti scriuere come fa l'autore, che li hà veduti, & conosciuti, come egli ben dimostra in tutto quel che tratta, si come il lettore di ciò si chiarirà.

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    • In Venetia : Presso Daniel Zanetti, 1602.
    • 1602
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    Text Arents 95-93Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Compositiones variae, from Codex 490, Biblioteca capitolare, Lucca, Italy, an introductory study, by Rozelle Parker Johnson.

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    • Urbana, The University of Illinois Press, 1939.
    • 1939
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    Text P25 .U558 v.23, no.1-2Off-site
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  • Compositiones variae, from Codex 490, Biblioteca capitolare, Lucca, Italy, an introductory study, by Rozelle Parker Johnson.

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    • Urbana, The University of Illinois Press, 1939.
    • 1939
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  • A plain plantain; country wines, dishes & herbal cures, from a 17th century household M. S. receipt book: arranged, with various details, by Russell George Alexander.

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    • Ditchling, Sussex, S. Dominic's press, 1922.
    • 1922
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  • Il manoscritto veneziano : un manuale di pittura e altre arti : miniatura, incisione, vetri, vetrate e ceramiche di medicina, farmacopea e alchimia del quattrocento / Bianca Silvia Tosatti.

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    • Milano : CARMA, c 1991.
    • 1991
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    Text Z105.5 .B75 S558 1991Off-site
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  • The compleat housewife [electronic resource] : or accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being A Collection of upwards of Six Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With Copper Plates, curiously engraven, for the regular Disposition or Placing of the various Dishes and Courses. And also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Mrs. Stephens's Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons were disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. With Directions for Marketing. By E. Smith.

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    • London : Printed for R. Ware, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, J. and J. Rivington, J. Ward, W. Johnston, and M. Cooper, M.DCC.LIII. [1753]
    • 1753
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  • Compositiones variae, from Codex 490, Biblioteca capitolare, Lucca, Italy, an introductory study, by Rozelle Parker Johnson.

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    • Urbana, The University of Illinois Press, 1939.
    • 1939
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    Text STG (Illinois) (Illinois. University. University of Illinois studies in language and literature. v. 23, no. 3)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Il libellus di Chicago : un ricettario veneto di arte, artigianato e farmaceutica, secolo XV / Adriano Caffaro, Giuseppe Falanga.

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    • Salerno : Arci Postiglione, 2006 (2005 printing)
    • 2006
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  • Le bâtiment des recettes : présentation et annotation de l'édition Jean Ruelle, 1560 / [critical edition by] Geneviève Deblock.

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    • Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, [2015].
    • 2015-2015
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    Text R128.6 .O6414 2015Off-site
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  • Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades, or, Approved directions, from the best artists, for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper or steel ... : containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades.

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    • Dublin : Printed by James Williams, 1778.
    • 1778
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    Text Arents 95-24Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • The laboratory [electronic resource] : or, school of arts: in which are faithfully exhibited, and fully explain'd, I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting, assaying, Casting, Allaying, and Toughening of gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. II. Choice secrets for jewellers in the Management of Gold; in Enamelling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of Copying precious Stones; of preparing Colours for Doublets; of Colouring Foyles for Jewels, together with other rare Secrets. III. Several uncommon experiments for Casting in Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Steel, and other Metals: Likewise in Wax, Plaister of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. With the Management of the respective Moulds. IV. The Art of making Glass: Exhibiting withal the Art of Painting and making Impressions upon Glass, and of laying thereon Gold or Silver; together with the Method of preparing the Colours for Potters Work, or Delf-Ware. V. A Collection of very valuable Secrets, for the Use of Cutlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joiners, Turners, Japanners, Book-Binders, Distillers, Lapidaries, Limners, &c. together with the Art of Marbling Books or Paper. VI. A Dissertation on the Nature and Growth of Salt-Petre: Also, Several other choice and uncommon Chymical Experiments. Vii. The Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire-Globes, Stars, Sparks, &c. for Recreative Fire-Works. Viii. The Art and Management of Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cottons, &c. in various Colours. Compiled from German, and other foreign authors. Illustrated with copper plates. By G. Smith. The third edition, with additions of a great number of valuable receipts; particularly, a short, plain, and easy introduction to the art of drawing in perspective.

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    • London : printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge ; and T. Astley, 1750.
    • 1750
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  • Le parfumeur royal, ou, L'art de parfumer avec les fleurs & composer toutes sortes de parfums, tant pour l'odeur que pour le goût ... / par le Sieur Barbe, parfumeur.

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    • A Paris : Au Palais, chez Augustin Simon Brunet ..., 1699.
    • 1699
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  • The French perfumer : teaching the several ways of extracting the odours of drugs and flowers, and making all the compositions of perfumes for powder, wash-balls, essences, oyls, wax, pomatum, paste, Queen of Hungary's Rosa Solis, and other sweet waters : the manner of preparing sweet toilets, boxes, &c. with the preparations and use of perfumes of all kinds whatsoever : also how to colour and scent gloves and fans : together with the secret of cleansing tobacco, and perfuming it for all sorts of snuff, Spanish, Roman, &c. / done into English from the original printed at Paris.

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    • London : Printed for Sam. Buckley at the Dolphin over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1696.
    • 1696
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    Text *KC 1696 09-62Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The receipt book of Mrs. Ann Blencowe, A.D. 1694.

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    • London : G. Chapman, 1925.
    • 1925
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  • The house-Keeper's pocket-book, [electronic resource] : and compleat family cook: containing about twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. With Plain and easy Instruction for Preparing and Dressing every Thing suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, from Two Dishes to Five or Ten, &c. and Directions for ranging them in their proper Order. Also a copious and useful Bill of Fare, of all Manner of Provisions in Season, for every Month in the Year; so that no Person need be at a Loss to provide an agreeable Variety, at a moderate Expence. Together with Directions for making all Sorts of Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub, &c. and Distilling Strong-Waters, &c. after the most approved Methods: For Brewing Ale and Small-Beer in a cleanly, frugal Manner: And for Managing and Breeding Poultry to Advantage. Likewise several useful Family Receipts for taking out Stains, preserving Furniture, cleaning Plate, taking Iron-Moulds out of Linen, &c. As also easy Tables, of Sums ready cast up, from one Farthing to one Pound, for the Use of those not conversant in Arithmetic: And Tables shewing the Interest of Money from 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5 per Cent, from one Day to a Year. The Whole is so contrived as to contain as much as any Book of double the Price; and the Excellency of the Receipts renders it the most useful Book of the Kind. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. The eighth edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts, by very good Judges of the separate Articles, particularly to dress Turtle, &c. Also, Every one their ow physician: A Collection of the most approved Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders incident to Human Bodies. Carefully compiled by Mary Morris.

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    • London : printed for C. and R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate-Hill, M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]
    • 1764
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  • Royal cookery [electronic resource] : or the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Patties, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.

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    • London : printed for E. and R. Nutt; and H. Lintot, at the Cross Keys, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, MDCCXXXI. [1731]
    • 1731
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  • The house-Keeper's pocket-book [electronic resource] : and compleat family cook. Containing about seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts, in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. With plain and easy Instructions for preparing and dressing every Thing suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, from Two Dishes to Five or Ten, &c. And Directions for ranging them in their proper Order. To which is prefix'd, Such a copious and useful Bill of Fare of all manner of Provisions in Season for every Month of the Year, that no Person need be at a Loss to provide an agreeable Variety of Dishes, at a moderate Expence. With Directions for making all Sorts of Wines, Mead, Cyder, Shrub, &c. and distilling Strong-Waters, &c. after the most approv'd Method. Concluding with many excellent Prescriptions, of singular Efficacy in most Distempers incident to the Human Body; extracted from the Writings of the most eminent Physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. with the Addition of Four Hundred Genuine Receipts, sent to the Author by several worthy Persons.

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    • London : printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, Warwick-Lane, [1739]
    • 1739
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  • Delightes for ladies, written originally by Sir Hugh Plat, first printed in 1602, London, England. Reprinted from the edition of 1627, illustrations from 1609 edition; collated and edited by Violet and Hal W. Trovillion.

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    • Herrin, Ill., Published by Trovillion Private Press, 1942.
    • 1942
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    Text *KP (Trovillion) (Plat, H. Delightes for ladies. 1942)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A closet for ladies and gentlewomen, or The art of preserving, conserving, and candying. With the manner how to make divers kindes of Syrups, and ... banqueting-stufs: also divers soveraign-Medicines and salvs.

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    • London, Printed by R.H., 1656.
    • 1656
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    Text *KC 1656 (Closet for ladies and gentlewomen)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Arts treasury: or, A profitable and pleasing invitation to the lovers of ingenuity. Contained in many extraordinary experiments, rareties, and curious inventions ... Part I. Containing the mystery of dying cloths ... leather ... Directions to take out spots ... Preparing cement for glass ... making perfumes ... drawing ... painting ... engraving ... gilding ... Part II. Containing the quality, generation and product of metals and minerals ... The art of souldering ... Instructions for making inks ... and ... sealing-wax ... and to detect counterfeit coins. How to write ... that it shall not appear without the help of fire, water ... Weighing ships, extinguishing fire, blowing up houses or vessels under water, &c.

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    • London, Printed for W. Whitwood, and Mrs. Feltham, 1688.
    • 1688
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  • The housekeeper's instructor [electronic resource] : or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches. Containing proper directions for dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, the Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; with The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The making and keeping in Perfection British Wines; and proper rules for brewing malt liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitants. To which is added, the complete art of carving, illustrated with engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; With copper-plates displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The Whole formed on so new a plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. The fifth edition. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years.

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    • London : printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, No. 112 Holborn-Hill, [1795?]
    • 1795
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  • The house-keeper's pocket-book, [electronic resource] : and compleat family cook: containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts ... By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, ... The seventh edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts, ... Also, Every one their own physician: ... compiled by Mary Morris.

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    • London : printed for C. and R. Ware, 1760.
    • 1760
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  • Delightes for ladies, written originally by Sir Hugh Plat, first printed in 1602, London, England. Reprinted from the edition of 1627, illustrations from 1609 edition; collated and edited by Violet and Hal Trovillion.

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    • Herrin, Ill. : Trovillion Private Press, 1939.
    • 1939
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  • Der Freund in der Noth, oder Zweyter Theil, des Neuen auserlesenen gemeinnützigen Hand-Büchleins ... Für die Deutsche Nation in America, heraus gegeben von Tobias Hirte. Philadelphia.

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    • Germantaun, Gedruckt bey Peter Leibert, 1793.
    • 1793
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  • Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets / by John Ferguson.

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    • London : Holland Press, 1981.
    • 1981-1959
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  • Delightes For Ladies, To adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories: With Beavties, Banqvets, Perfumes & Waters ...

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    • London, Printed by Hvmfrey Lownes, 1609.
    • 1609
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  • The way to get wealth [electronic resource] : or, a new and easie way to make twenty three sorts of wine, equal to that of France; with their Vertues. Also to make Cyder, Mead, Rum, Rack, Brandy, and Cordial Waters: Pickles, Vinegar, and the Mystery of Vintners. Also, divers Physical Receipts to help a Bad Memory, so that you may remember all that you read or do. To make Cloaths keep out Rain. The Compleat Servant-Maid, directing to Dress Fish, Flesh, or Fowl. To have a fresh Crop of Corn. To make China-Varnish, and black Ground for Japan-Work, to Black Wood, and Gild. To which is added, a help to discourse, Giving an Account of Trade of all Countries, and Inventers of Arts and Sciences. An Account of the River Nilus. To make Horses fat. Of Gardning, and many other Curiosities. By the author of The way to save wealth; and of One thousand notable things.

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    • London : printed for G. Conyers, at the Golden Ring, [1701?]
    • 1701
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  • The way to get wealth [electronic resource] : or, an easie way to make wine of gooseberries, currans, rasberries, Mulberries, Elderberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Dewberries, Pears, Cherries, Peaches, Apricocks, Quinces, Plumbs, Damsons, Figs, Cowslips, Scurvygrass, Mint, Morella, Bawm, Apples and Roses, Equal to that of France, with their Physical Virtues: Also to make Cyder, Mead, Rum, Rack. The true Art of Distilling of Brandy, Strong Waters, Cordial Waters: To make Pickles and divers sorts of Vinegars; The Mistery of Confectioners: To recover Wine damaged; Physical Receipts of our Modern Doctors for most Diseases. To help a bad Memory, so that you may remember all that you ever read or do: To make all your wearing Apparel keep out Rain tho' never so great Showers; The Duty of all sorts of Servant Maids, with Directions to Dress Flesh, Fish and Fowl. To Encrease Peas, Beans, Wheat, Barley exceedingly, so that you may have a Treble Crop; To make China Varnish, and Black Ground for Japan Work; To black Wood, Gild: To make Coffee, Tea, Chocolate; A Help to Discourse, and divers Curiosities, of B. Portae, Alexis, and others; by the author of The way to save wealth, and also of a Thousand notable things.

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    • London : printed for G. Conyers, at the Gold Ring in Little Britain, [1702]
    • 1702
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  • The queen's closet opened [electronic resource] : Being incomparable secrets in physick, surgery, preserving, candying, and cookery. After the newest Mode now practised in England, By the most experienc'd persons of the times.

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    • London : printed for J. Phillips, at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard; H. Rhodes at the Star, the corner of Bride-Lane in Fleet-Street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCX. [1710]
    • 1710
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  • Recüeil de plusieurs remedes et secrets, 1711.

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    • 1711
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  • Receipts relating to physick and surgery : those marked with M.P. experienced by My Lady Duchess, ca. 1750.

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    • 1750
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