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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?]- Books
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Domestic economy; or, a complete system of English housekeeping: containing the most approved receipts, confirmed by Observation and Practice, in every reputable English book of cookery now extant; besides a great Variety of others which have never before been offered to the Public. Also a valuable Collection, translated from the Productions of Cooks of Eminence who have published in France, with their respective Names to each Receipt; which, together with the Original Articles, form the most complete System of Housekeeping ever yet exhibited, under the following Heads, viz. Roasting, Boiling, Made-Dishes, Frying, Broiling, Potting, Fricasses, Ragouts, Soups, Sauces, Gravies, Hashes, Stews, Puddings, Custards, Cakes, Tarts, Pies, Pasties, Cheesecakes, Jellies, Pickling, Preserving, and Confectionary. To which is prefixed, in order to render it as complete and perfect as possible, An Elegant Collection of Light Dishes for Supper, Adapted for Every Month in the Year. Also the complete brewer; Containing Familiar Instructions for brewing all Sorts of Beer and Ale; including the proper Management of the Vault or Cellar. Likewise the family physician; being a collection of the most valuable and approved prescriptions by Mead, Sydenham, Tissot, Fothergill, Elliot, Buchan, and Others. By Maximilian Hazlemore.
Date: 1794- 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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The treasurie of hidden secrets : Commonlie called, The good-husvviues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold: / gathered out of sundry experiments, latelie practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly inlarged, with divers necessarie physicke helpes, and knowledge of the names and naturall disposition of diseases, that most commonlie happen to men and women. Not impertinent for euery good huswife to vse in her house, amongst her owne famelie.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1596..- Books
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Several essays in political arithmetick. By Sir William Petty, ... The fourth edition, corrected. To which are prefix'd, Memoirs of the author's life.
Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.Date: 1755- Books
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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightfull companion : Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the exactest manner and method, viz. (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. ... To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentle-woman as to her behaviour & seemly deportment, &c.
J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702Date: 1687- Books
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The young ladies school of arts. Containing, a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers filligree japanning Shell-Work Gilding Painting Cosmetics Jellies Preserves Cakes Cordials Creams Jamms Pickles Candying Made Wines Clear Starching, &c. Also, a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs Hannah Robertson
Robertson, Hannah, 1724-1800?.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house. Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world. prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. The third edition. By Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1682- Books
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The husbandman's manual; Directing him how to improve the several actions of his calling, and the most usual occurrences of his life, to the Glory of God, and the benefit of his soul. The seventeenth edition. Written by a minister in the country for the use of his Parishioners.
Welchman, Edward, 1665-1739.Date: 1791- Books
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The gentlewoman's delight in cookery : containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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The accomplish'd ladies 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 beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent receipts relating to the female sex: and for the general good of families, is added the true receipt for making that famous cordial drink Daffy's elixir salutis. III. The compleat cook's guide: or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode; with all sorts of sauces and sallets: and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: [1696]- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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The accomplish'd ladies 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: 1684- Books
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The accomplish'd ladies 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 lovliness 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: 1685- Books
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L. Junii Moderati Columellæ De re rustica libri duo. Et quædam excerpta ex ejusdem aliis libris, in adolescentulorum, infra diœcesin, apud Hibernos, ossoriensem degentium, agricolationis studiosorum, gratiam. Juxta exemplar Roberti Stephani.
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus.Date: 1732- Books
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Impartial observations, to be considered on by the king, his ministers, and the people of Great Britain.
Impartiality.Date: 1763]- Books
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Honor Samuel Adams, Esq. ... A proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer. ... Thursday, the seventeenth day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the nineteenth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four ...
Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1789-1794 : Adams)Date: [1794]- Books
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A plea for pure and undefil'd religion: with an answer to some objections moved against it by a friend, in a letter to a friend. By John Glas.
Glas, John, 1695-1773.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The new complete English farmer; or, the whole body of husbandry made perfectly easy. Containing what every farmer ought to know and practise, in all the various useful branches of husbandry. Comprehending, among all the several articles treated of in this work, full directions and instructions, under the following heads, viz. The cultivation and proper management of wheat and barley. The culture of oats and rye. The whole art and management of all the different kinds of grass, and of making hay. Full description of the different soils, and of manuring and ploughing land. Instructions respecting the farmer's stock, &c. The best methods of breeding and rearing colts, managing horses and mares, and of curing their numerous diseases. The art of rearing calves and lambs, together with the best methods of managing bulls, oxen, cows, and sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest advantage. Likewise several excellent receipts to cure the different disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved method of rearing pigs, fattening swine, and chusing the best sort for breeding, and for curing all their disorders. Directions for breeding rabbits to the best advantage. The whole art of rearing and managing fowls, ducks, geese, turkies, and pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the farmer, with the choicest receipts to cure their several distempers. The whole management of bees, both for profit and pleasure. The cultivation of turnips, beans, pease, trees, hemp, and flax, &c. &c. &c. Together with other useful articles, too numerous to mention in this title page. The whole carefully revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Hogg, farmer, near Lynn, in Norfolk. Assisted by several experienced gentlemen and farmers, who have made agriculture, &c. their particular study for many years. Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
Hogg, William.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The young w[o]man's companion; or the servant-maid's assistant; digested under the several heads hereinafter mentioned, Viz. I. A short Essay on the Benefits of Learning, &c. by way of Introduction. II. The Young Womans's Guide to the Knowledge of her Mother-Tongue. III. A compendious English Spelling Dictionary, peculiarly calculated for the present Undertaking. IV. An easy Introduction to the Art of Writing; with Rules of Life. V. Familar Letters on various Subjects. VI. The Young Woman's Guide to the Art of Numbers; with a great Variety of useful Tables. Vii. The compleat Market Woman; with proper Instructions to prevent the Purchaser from being imposed upon. Viii. The compleat Cook-Maid, Pastry-Cook, and Confectioner. IX. Advice to Sevants in general, with Respect to their Duty towards God, their Employers, and themselves, with additional Prayers and Hymns. And Lastly A compleat Table of the Contents. The whole compiled by Mary Johnson, For many Years a Superintendant of a Lady of Quality's Family in the City of York.
Johnson, Mary, active 1753.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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Speculations on the state of Ireland: shewing the fatal causes of her misery, the evil influence under which she languishes, and the power thereof to reduce her to the last extreme of human wretchedness and woe.
Date: 1793- Books
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A proposal to prevent the price of corn from rising too high, or falling too low, by the means of granaries. By Thomas Prior, Esq;
Prior, Thomas, 1682?-1751.Date: 1741?]- Books
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Stultus versus sapientem: in three letters to the fool, on subjects the most interesting. By Henry Fielding, Esq;
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: 1749- Books
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The present state of Ireland consider'd: In a letter to The Revd. Dean Swift. By a True Patriot.
True patriot.Date: Printed in the year, 1724- Books
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A deed, in addition to the articles or charter-party of the Social Annuity-Company of the city of Dublin.
Social Annuity Company (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1757