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Dr. King's New Guide to Health. Household Instructor & Family Prize Cook Book
by [Almanac - cookery; Bucklen, H.E. & Co. (Chicago, Il.)]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL; Windsor, Canada: H.E. Bucklen & Co, 1902. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 17 cm.), 32 pages. Publisher's advertisements on inner wrapper flaps. Illustrated. Text in double columns. Title from cover. ~ An annual advertising recipe book in almanac form with calendars for 1902 and 1903, from the company that brought us Dr. King's Electric Bitters and New Life Pills, both arnica-based treatments. Culinary recipes appear aside medicinal cures and short news items. Text block a bit age-toned, but sound; Small ring of cord for hanging in upper left corner. Some wear to edges and light soiling of chromolithographed wrappers, otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9106
- Title
- Dr. King's New Guide to Health. Household Instructor & Family Prize Cook Book
- Author
- [Almanac - cookery; Bucklen, H.E. & Co. (Chicago, Il.)]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- H.E. Bucklen & Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL; Windsor, Canada
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- cookbook, product cookbook, almanac, patent medicine, bitters, household book, ephemera, culinary ephemera
- Bookseller catalogs
- culinary ephemera;
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About the Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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Alfred, Maine
About Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Rabelais is always serving up fine books about food, drink, farming and gardening. We carry a sizable stock of rare books, alongside prints, photographs and ephemera, all concerned with the pleasures of the senses.
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