Cooper, Thomas. A TREATISE OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE, INTENDED FOR FAMILIES; in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated ; to which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living. Reading, (Pa.): George Getz, 1824. First Edition. 10 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches in contemporary printed board covers with leather spine. Printed in two columns; the first 23 pages focusing on home medical remedies and the balance on culinary matters including recipes. OCLC notes: "The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances" (p. [111]-128) is an excerpt from a translation of Nicolas Appert's L'Art de conserver. - M. Appert's paper was 'published by order of the French Minister of the Interior, on the report of the Board of Arts and Manufactures, made on the 19th April, 1810'". Shoemaker; 15867; Lowenstein, Early American Cookery (3rd ed.), 97; Rink, Early Technical Americana, 1495. With group of manuscript and some printed ephemera - recipes, formulas, etc. laid-in. Condition: Upper cover separated; joints and backstrip heavily worn with loss of leather. Contents complete though foxed and toned. Includes the 3 inserted copper plate engravings called for.
Cooper, Thomas. A TREATISE OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE, INTENDED FOR FAMILIES; in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated ; to which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living. Reading, (Pa.): George Getz, 1824. First Edition. 10 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches in contemporary printed board covers with leather spine. Printed in two columns; the first 23 pages focusing on home medical remedies and the balance on culinary matters including recipes. OCLC notes: "The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances" (p. [111]-128) is an excerpt from a translation of Nicolas Appert's L'Art de conserver. - M. Appert's paper was 'published by order of the French Minister of the Interior, on the report of the Board of Arts and Manufactures, made on the 19th April, 1810'". Shoemaker; 15867; Lowenstein, Early American Cookery (3rd ed.), 97; Rink, Early Technical Americana, 1495. With group of manuscript and some printed ephemera - recipes, formulas, etc. laid-in. Condition: Upper cover separated; joints and backstrip heavily worn with loss of leather. Contents complete though foxed and toned. Includes the 3 inserted copper plate engravings called for.
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