Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful Arts: Constituting a Complete Practical Library Relative to Agriculture, Bees, Bleaching, Brewing...
by Mackenzie
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Warsaw, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Pittsburgh: James Kay, Jun and Brother, Philadelphia, 1829 Also in title: calico printing, carving at table, cements, confectionary, cookery, crayons, dairy, diseases, distilation, dying, enamelling, engraving, farriery, food, gardening, gilding, glass, health, inks &,jewellers pastes, lithography, medicines, metallergy, oil colours, oils, painting, pastry, perfumery, pickling, pottery, preserving, scouring, silk, silk worms, silvering, tanning, trees of all kinds, varnishing, water colours, wines, &c, &c. A new american from the latest London Edition. With numerous and important additions generally: and the medical part carefully revised and adapted to the climate of the U. States; and also a new and not copious index by an American Physician. Kay's improved and enlarged edition. 426 pages plus index-total 456 pages. Front gutter is splitting with tender front hinge, app. 1" chip missing head of spine, contemperary leather rubbed but still nice and clean, lower corners worn through to boards, a few pages with foxing, the vast majority without a trace, two rear endpapers show insect damage in one corner. Truely a nice presentable copy in contemporary calf.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kerkhoff Books Div KSI (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000315
- Title
- Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful Arts: Constituting a Complete Practical Library Relative to Agriculture, Bees, Bleaching, Brewing...
- Author
- Mackenzie
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Kay, Jun and Brother, Philadelphia
- Place of Publication
- Pittsburgh
- Date Published
- 1829
- Keywords
- Medical, Medicine
Terms of Sale
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Books returnable if not as described and returned in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Biblio member since 2006
Warsaw, Indiana
About Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Primarily online seller with emphasis on better quality books.In the book business since the mid 1980s.
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