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Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, Constituting a Complete and Universal Practical Library and Operative Cyclopaedia
by Mackenzie, Colin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: John Grigg, Uriah Hunt; et. al. Good+. 1827. early printing. Leather. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 661 pages; 1827 John Grigg, Uriah Hunt; et. Al, Philadelphia. Full calf leather binding with red morocco title label to spine. One of the earliest American imprints of Mackenzie's widely used book of receipts for commerce, arts, health and cooking. Illustrated with in text woodcuts. Text block soundly bound and complete. Front board cleanly detached at the front joint; rear board sound. Endpages complete. Spotting and foxing moderate throughout. Text in two columsn; several woodcut figures. Thousands of recipes for every manner of use including for making color in paint and for cloth, varnishes and finishes, health, tonics and cures, cleaning, tanning of skins, dining, brewed and distilled spirits etc. An easy candidate for a basic repair to the front joint. G+ thus .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43119
- Title
- Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, Constituting a Complete and Universal Practical Library and Operative Cyclopaedia
- Author
- Mackenzie, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- early printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Grigg, Uriah Hunt; et. al
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1827
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian Books; Cooking and Cookery;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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