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Some delightful recipes for home-made cakes, pastries & puddings : Superise the finest unbleached self-raising flour made in pure country air / by the Superise Flour Co. Ltd.
Superise Flour Co. Ltd.Date: [1954?]- Books
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The new family receipt book : containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy, selected from the works of British and foreign writers of unquestionable experience and authority, and from the attested communications of scientific friends.
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828.Date: 1815- Books
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Astronomical and philological conjectures on a passage in Homer. By G. Costard, M. A. Vicar of Twickenham, in the Country of Middlesex.
Costard, George, 1710-1782.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The villas of the ancients illustrated. By Robert Castell.
Castell, Robert.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The Edinburgh almanack for the year M,DCC,LXIX. Being the first after leap year, and of the Julian Period 6482. Inscribed, with the greatest respect, to the Right Hon. James Stewart, Esq; Lord Provost. James Guthrie, Robert Home, William Callendar, George Dunsinure, Esqrs. Bailies, William Ramsay, Esq; dean of Guild, William Stewart, Esq; treasurer, Gilbert Lawrie, Esq; Old Provost, Patrick Millar, Thomas Hepburn, George Rigg, William Nicol, Esqrs. Old Bailies, John Learmonth, Esq; old dean of Guild, John Grieve, Esq; old treasurer, Messrs. John Wordie, John Kid, Thomas Trotter, merchant counsellors, Messrs. Thomas Cleland, James Cowan, trades counsellors, Mr Tho. Simpson, Pewterer, deacon conveener of the trades. Ordinary deacons, Mess. Rob. Smith, surgeons, William Dempster, goldsmiths William Butter, wrights, James Paterson, taylors, George Mellis, fleshers, extraordinary deacons, Mess. James Brown, skinners, James Miller, furriers, William Jamieson, masons, Alexander Smith, baxters, Pater Smith, cordiners, David Thomson, weavers. Thomas Millar, waulkers. Will. Rankine, bonnetmakers,
Date: [1769]- Books
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Remarks upon the play of Douglas, in a letter by a gentleman to his friend in the country.
Gentleman.Date: 1757]- Books
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Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations. : Contayning the wholesome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business. As namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock. / By G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1654- Books
First aid in the home / by one of the foremost First Aid lecturers in the country, who is the official lecturer, examiner and competition judge to the St. John Ambulance Association.
Date: [194-]- Books
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The cottage cook; or, Mrs. Jones's cheap dishes. Shewing the way to do much good with little money.
Date: [Between 1805? and 1818?]- Pictures
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A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1819Reference: 11811i- Pictures
Conduct of life: an angel reveals to Dutch citizens a book showing the Last Judgment, which is supported by the skeletons of Adam and Eve; in the background, an ideal country residence. Engraving, 1656.
Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660.Date: [1656]Reference: 20408i- Books
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Proposals for the relief and support of maimed, aged, and disabled seamen, in the merchants service of Great Britain. Humbly offer'd to all Lovers of their Country, and to all true Friends to Trade and Navigation By John Griffin, Mariner.
Griffin, John, mariner.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,XLV. [1745]- Books
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Proposals for the relief and support of maimed, aged, and disabled seamen, in the merchants service of Great Britain. Humbly offer'd to all lovers of their country, and to all true friends to trade and navigation. By John Griffin, mariner.
Griffin, John, mariner.Date: Printed in the year M,DCC,XLVI. [1746]- Books
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The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good oeconomy of the domestick concerns of a country life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other Parts of England: Shewing How great Savings may be made in Housekeeping: And wherein, among many others, The following Heads are particularly treated of and explained: I. The Preservation and Improvement of Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, and other Meals; with Directions for making several Sorts of Bread, Cakes, Puddings, Pies, &c. II. Frugal Management of Meats, Fruits, Roots, and all Sorts of Herbs; best Methods of Cookery; and a cheap Way to make Soups, Sauces, Gruels, &c. III. Directions for the Farm Yard; with the best Method of increasing and fatning all Sorts of Poultry, as Turkies, Geese, Ducks, Fowls, &c. IV. The best Way to breed and fatten Hogs; sundry curious and cheap Methods of preparing Hogs Meat; Directions for curing Bacon, Brawn, pickled Pork, Hams, &c. with the Management of Sows and Pigs. V. The best Method of making Butter and Cheese, with several curious Particulars containing the whole Management of the Dairy. VI. The several Ways of making good Malt; with Directions for brewing good Beer, Ale, &c. With Variety of Curious Matters, Wherein are contained frugal Methods for victualling Harvest-Men, Ways to destroy all Sorts of Vermine, the best Manner of suckling and fattening Calves, Prescriptions for curing all Sorts of Distempers in Cattle, with Variety of curious Receits for Pickling, Preserving, Distilling, &c. The whole founded on near thirty years experience by W. Ellis, Farmer, at Little Gaddesden, near Hempsted, Hertfords.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: 1750- Books
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A Letter to the Right Honourable Author of A letter to a citizen, with animadversions on the answer thereto, and on the behaviour of the Corporation of the city of London. In which his reasons for resigning; the conduct, success and advantages of his administration; his fidelity to his country; capacity for directing the transactions of war, commerce and pacification, are fairly stated and freely considered.
Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Ephemera
Their sight for us, our help for them : St. Dunstan's : [knight on horseback in woodland].
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Books
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A word for the poor: or, general thoughts, candidly submitted to the good sense, discernment, and particular consideration, of the British public, on the late scanty harvest, and the Dreary Prospect of a Hard Winter. Interspersed, Are a few homely, but wholesome, Hints (if rightly taken) to all deep Speculators, and greedy Monopolists, whether Farmers or Cornfactors, Usurious Contractors, Forestallers, Engrossers, or Regraters, with a Glance at Levellers, and a Parting Word of Admonition to the Poor. By a true lover of his country.
True Lover of his Country.Date: [1799]- Books
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The farmer's wife; or complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese, &c. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Farmer's Wife and Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds in General: Likewise a Variety of receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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The farmer's wife; or the complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds: Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars, well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Pictures
The orator Cicero and his brother Quintus show their ancestral estate to Atticus: they discuss the beauty of nature; humans' attachment to their family origins; and the longevity of local identity. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1778, after R. Wilson.
Wilson, Richard, 1713-1782.Date: June 4th. 1778Reference: 3065565i- Videos
Home movies Ashton, Cambridge, Ascot 1934 from May onwards.
Date: 1929-- Ephemera
Their sight for us, our help for them : St. Dunstan's : [knight with defeated, dead dragon].
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Film
Home movies Ashton, Cambridge, Ascot 1934 from May onwards.
Date: 1929- Videos
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Home movies Ashton, Cambridge, Ascot 1934 from May onwards.
Date: 1929-- Books
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Dictionarium Domesticum, being a new and compleat houshold dictionary. For the use both of city and country. ... By N. Bailey, ...
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: 1736