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The toilet of Flora; or, a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, Powders, Perfumes, and Sweet-Scented Waters. with receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and take off the Appearance of Old Age and Decay. For the use of the Ladies.
Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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The toilet of Flora; or, a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind ... for the use of ladies / [Anon].
Date: 1779- Books
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A dissertation upon head dress; together with a brief vindication of high coloured hair, and of those ladies on whom it grows: the whole submitted to the conoisseurs in taste, Whether Antient or Modern, of what Nation or Kingdom soever. By an English periwig-maker.
English periwig-maker.Date: 1767- Books
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A new collection of the most easy and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, sweet-scented waters: and opiates, For preserving the teeth and gums, and sweetening the breath. With Receipts for Cosmetics of every Kind, that can smooth and brighten the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and take off the Appearance of Age and Decay. For the use of the ladies.
Date: [1787]- Books
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The accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery; together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1677- Books
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In Surry-street, in the Strand, at the corner-house with a white-balcony and blue-flower pots, liveth a gentlewoman : who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, which cures all redness, flushings, or pimples.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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The gentlewoman that lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is removed to Racket Court, near Fleet-bridge, the third door on the right-hand : Who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, as many of the greatest quality can testifie[:] its virtue is to take out all manner of wrinkles freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sun-burn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused [t]oo often by mercurial poysonous washes.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1677- Books
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La laideur aimable, et les dangers de la beauté. Piéce [sic] trouvée dans les papiers de Mlle ***. Auteur de la Cécile. Premiere partie.
La Place, Pierre Antoine de, 1707-1793.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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The compleat servant-maid: or, The young maidens tutor : Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments, viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a supplement containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1691- Books
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The art of preserving beauty: containing instructions to adorn and embellish the ladies; remove deformities, and preserve health. Advice to make essences, washes, perfumes, linements, pomatums, powders, baths, waters, medicines; with salutary advice to procure love, affection, and esteem, and by regular rules, with air an exercise, remove the appearance of old age and decay; Inscribed to the Fair Part of the Creation, by a physician.
Physician.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
Gli ornamenti delle donne: tratti dalle scritture d'una reina greca ... et divisi in quattro libri. Con due tavole, una de'capitoli, e l'altra d'alcune cose particolari : opera utile, & necessaria ad ogni gentile persona / scritti per m. Giovanni Marinello.
Marinello, Giovanni, active 16th century.Date: 1574- Books
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The compleat servant-maid: or, The young maidens tutor : Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a suppiiment [sic] containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English ham equal to Westphalia. The compleat market-man and market-woman, in buying fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness or badness in every respect, to prevent being cheated. Never before printed.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1700- Books
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A guide to health, beauty, riches, and honour.
Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Medicamentorum formul? in varias medendi intentiones concinnat?. Auctore Hugone Smith, M.D. Colleg. Regal. Medicor. Lond.
Smith, Hugh, 1730?-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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An odd letter, on a most interesting subject, to Miss K---- F--h--r. Recommended to the perusal of the ladies of Great Britain. By Simon Trusty, Esq.
Trusty, Simon.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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At the blew ball in Great Knight-rider street, by doctors commons, is sold that famous power, called, Arcanum Magnum : formerly prepared by that learned River[?], physician-regent to the French king, and approved by most persons of quality in Christendom, for preserving the face.
Date: [1680?]- Books
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Letters to the ladies, on the preservation of health and beauty. By a physician.
Physician.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The family physitian, or, A collection of choice, approv'd and experienc'd remedies : for the cure of almost all deseases incident to humane bodies, whether internal or external, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people : containing some hundreds of considerable receipts and secrets of great value, with observations of great cures : together with the true English wine-celler, and the right method of making the English-wines, or metheglin : with a collection of the choicest and safest cosmetick remedies for preserving the beauty and complection of ladies, never before publish'd / by Geo. Hartman.
Hartman, G. (George)Date: 1696- Books
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes & waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1609- Books
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Delightes for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1608- Books
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A discourse of auxiliary beauty. Or artificiall hansomenesse : In point of conscience between two ladies.
Gauden, John, 1605-1662Date: 1656- Books
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Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions : how to preserve beauty or procure it.
Jeamson, Thomas, -1674Date: 1665- Books
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Delights for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1636- Books
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Cosmeticks : or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper.
Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586Date: 1660