"PRACTICAL CHEMIST"

The United States Practical Receipt Book: or, Complete Book of Reference, for the manufacturer, tradesman, agriculturist, or housekeeper; containing many thousand valuable receipt, in all the useful and domestic arts

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1845. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); publisher's tan blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 359pp. Boards quite worn with loss at spine foot, corners bumped, brief fading to upper cover cloth, lacking front free endpaper, title page foxed and rather soiled, textblock unevenly browned. A Good only copy of a rather scarce work in any printing.

Recipes for perfuming clothes, marbling a globe glass, gilding carps and crawfish, and curing headaches can all be found on p. 15, while ways to remove flies from rooms and preserve flowers in salt are featured on p. 201. For purgative electuary ("to keep the bowels in a soluble state"), red crimson dye, mulled white wine, and lemon water, see p. 323. See Lowenstein 340 for the first (1844) edition.

Price: $225.00

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