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A report from the Committee of Warehouses of the United East-India Company, relative to the culture of sugar.

Question des sucres. Nouvelles considérations ... / [C.J.A. Mathieu de Dombasle].

Top row: growing and processing of indigo; a man, a woman and a papaya tree; plants and animals. Middle: fruits and vegetables. Bottom row: processing and cooking of foodstuffs; sea-creatures; processing of sugar

1 print : engraving ; image and text 37 x 47.7 cm

Antilles: plants, trees, animals and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732.

Recipe booklet advertising Fowler's West India Treacle as providing nourishment and a gentle laxative effect, thus being good for children's health. The cover is illustrated in black, green and orange and shows 3 stems of sugar cane dripping black treacle into a tin of Fowler's treacle in the classic design they used for many a year.

Fowlers West India treacle and pure cane golden syrup : recipes for the home / Fowler Ltd.

Two Acts of Parliament, for draining and preserving of several fen lands and low grounds, in the parish of Whittlesey, in the isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge: the one passed in the twenty-second year of Geo. II. The other in the twelfth year of Geo. III.

Booklet containing mathematical tables (logarithms, antilogarithms, sines, cosines, tangents, weights and measures etc.) advertising Tate & Lyle sugar. A brief history of sugar as a foodstuff is given as its geography, botany, chemistry, cultivation, extraction, refining and distribution. Includes illustrations inside the factory and a large sugar tanker lorry. The front has the company's trademark Mr. Cube dressed as a teacher with a mortarboard, cane and book of logarithms in his left hand.

Mr Cube's roots : the story of sugar / Tate & Lyle Ltd.

Patent of Anthony Forester Smith : apparatus for boiling liquors, refining sugar, &c.

xv, 1 unnumbered page, 275, 54, 131, 78 pages, 1 leaf including tables : frontispiece, plates (some color) ; (folio)

East-India sugar. Papers respecting the culture and manufacture of sugar in British India: also notices of the cultivation of sugar in other parts of Asia. With miscellaneous information respecting sugar.

The British empire in America, consider'd. In a second letter, from a gentleman of Barbadoes, to his friend in London.

xiii, 289 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Rum, romance & rebellion / by Charles William Taussig ; drawings by Philip Kappel.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 22.5 x 18 cm

A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

Appropriate technology monograph series

Gur and indigenous sugar industry of South Asia : an annotated bibliography / compiled by A.R. Ghani.

10 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

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A report from the Committee of Warehouses of the United East-India Company, relative to the culture of sugar.

Question des sucres. Nouvelles considérations ... / [C.J.A. Mathieu de Dombasle].

Antilles: plants, trees, animals and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732.

Fowlers West India treacle and pure cane golden syrup : recipes for the home / Fowler Ltd.

Two Acts of Parliament, for draining and preserving of several fen lands and low grounds, in the parish of Whittlesey, in the isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge: the one passed in the twenty-second year of Geo. II. The other in the twelfth year of Geo. III.

Mr Cube's roots : the story of sugar / Tate & Lyle Ltd.

Patent of Anthony Forester Smith : apparatus for boiling liquors, refining sugar, &c.

East-India sugar. Papers respecting the culture and manufacture of sugar in British India: also notices of the cultivation of sugar in other parts of Asia. With miscellaneous information respecting sugar.

The British empire in America, consider'd. In a second letter, from a gentleman of Barbadoes, to his friend in London.

Rum, romance & rebellion / by Charles William Taussig ; drawings by Philip Kappel.

A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

Gur and indigenous sugar industry of South Asia : an annotated bibliography / compiled by A.R. Ghani.

Specification of William Richmond Alexander : manufacture of sugar furnaces, and consumption of smoke.

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A report from the Committee of Warehouses of the United East-India Company, relative to the culture of sugar.

Question des sucres. Nouvelles considérations ... / [C.J.A. Mathieu de Dombasle].

Antilles: plants, trees, animals and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732.

Fowlers West India treacle and pure cane golden syrup : recipes for the home / Fowler Ltd.

Two Acts of Parliament, for draining and preserving of several fen lands and low grounds, in the parish of Whittlesey, in the isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge: the one passed in the twenty-second year of Geo. II. The other in the twelfth year of Geo. III.

Mr Cube's roots : the story of sugar / Tate & Lyle Ltd.

Patent of Anthony Forester Smith : apparatus for boiling liquors, refining sugar, &c.

East-India sugar. Papers respecting the culture and manufacture of sugar in British India: also notices of the cultivation of sugar in other parts of Asia. With miscellaneous information respecting sugar.

The British empire in America, consider'd. In a second letter, from a gentleman of Barbadoes, to his friend in London.

Rum, romance & rebellion / by Charles William Taussig ; drawings by Philip Kappel.

A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

Gur and indigenous sugar industry of South Asia : an annotated bibliography / compiled by A.R. Ghani.

Specification of William Richmond Alexander : manufacture of sugar furnaces, and consumption of smoke.

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