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Van Cleve's Receipts: Being Secret Knowledge Disclosed; or, A Plain Way to Wealth. Comprising a Collection of About 1900 Rare and Practical English and American Receipts, Etc.
by VAN CLEVE, B. FRANK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Author, (1873) First edition. 8vo; 235 pp. Wear to top of spine; else a good copy in original cloth. It's a rare book that includes both a recipe for Drogheda Usquebaugh and a table for the shrinkage of iron castings, and this is the book. Many hundreds of recipes [receipts] for the use of dyers, druggists, bartenders, grocers, mechanics, painters, jewelers and metalworkers, farmers, etc. An amusing compendium of delicious cocktails, practical formulas, and untrustworthy information..
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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010595
- Title
- Van Cleve's Receipts: Being Secret Knowledge Disclosed; or, A Plain Way to Wealth. Comprising a Collection of About 1900 Rare and Practical English and American Receipts, Etc.
- Author
- VAN CLEVE, B. FRANK
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: The Author, (1873)
- Keywords
- Cocktails Formulas Recipes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food and Wine;
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Trevian Books
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- Cloth
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