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Domestic Management; or, the Healthful Cookery-Book, second edition, engraved frontispiece, roughly opened causing some tears in margins, uncut in contemporary boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled [cf. Bitting p.374], B. & R. Crosby, 1813—CULPEPER (NICHOLAS) The Complete Herbal... with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities, 20 hand-coloured plates (one torn and repaired), lacks frontispiece, some foxing and browning, contemporary half roan, worn, Thomas Kelly 1849--GIFFORD (H., Chemist) The General Receipt-Book... with Directions for Making British Wines, woodcut illustrations, publisher's illustrated boards, spine restored, some staining, old lot label on upper cover, 16mo, J. Smith [c.1840]--KITCHENER (WILLIAM) The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep &c., woodcut diagrams (one shaved at foot), early inscriptions, ink stamp and leather label on cover of Greenwich and subsequently Melvillle Hospitals, contemporary half calf [cf. Simon BG 911-2], G.B. Whittaker, 1827--MACNISH (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Drunkenness, third edition, modern leather-backed cloth, Glasgow, W.R. M'Phun, 1829--Dinners and Dinner-Parties, or the Absurdities of Artificial Life, second edition, ownership signature of Lady Carmichael Anstruther, publisher's cloth gilt, tears to spine, Chapman & Hall, 1862--BATEMAN (WILLIAM) Magnacopia; or, a Library of Useful and Profitable Information for the Chemist and Druggist, Surgeon-Dentist, Oilman, and Licensed Victualler..., second edition, contemporary cloth-backed boards, John Churchill, 1837--Fifteen Hundred Notable Things, Comprehending a Choice Variety of Rare, Curious and Important Receipts... to which is added a Century of Inventions, by the Marquis of Worcester, 1655, second edition, engraved frontispiece ("The Art of Talking with the Fingers"), contemporary half calf, rebacked, Glasgow, D. Mackenzie, [c.1840], 8vo & 12mo (8)