Mackenzie's FIVE THOUSAND RECEIPTS in all the Useful and Domestic Arts:; Constituting A COMPLETE PRACTICAL LIBRARY
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. and Brother, 1829. Hardcover. 456 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. If one wants to live off the grid, this is the book for you. This book literally has EVERYTHING under one cover, including, How to make any type of paint, paper hanging, dying, brewing, distillation, engraving, wines, cookery, medicine, husbandry, horticulture, pottery, and much more. A new American Edition from the latest London Edition Title: Agriculture, Bees, Bleaching, Brewing, Calico Printing, Carving a Table, Confectionary, Cookery, Crayons, Dairy, Diseases, Distillation, Enamelling, Engraving, Farriery, Food, Gardening, Gilding, Glass, Health, Inks, Jewellers Pastes, Lithography, Medicines, Metallurgy, Oil Colours, Oils, Painting, Pastry, Perfumery, Pickling, Pottery, Preserving, Scouring, Silk, Silk worms, Silvering, Tanning, Trees of all kinds, Varnishing, Water Colours, Wines, & etc. Interior foxed, covers rubbed, end papers chipped. Previous owner's signature on title page. [LOWENSTEIN 122]. Brown calf, spine decorated and embossed. Good. Item #4529
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