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6407. An encyclopaedia of domestic economy: comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping: as, the construction of domestic edifices, with the modes of warming, ventilating, and lighting them; a description of the various articles of furniture, with the nature of their materials; duties of servants; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food, and the methods of preserving and preparing them by cooking; making bread; the chemical nature and the preparation of all kinds of fermented liquors used as beverage; materials employed in dress and the toilette; business of the laundry; description of the various wheel-carriages; preservation of health; domestic medicine, &c,&c.

Creator:
Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

6420. The book of the feet: a history of boots and shoes, with illustrations of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style througout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period : also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc.

Creator:
Hall, Joseph Sparkes.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Cornell University, Mann Library
Publication Place:
Ithaca, New York
Format:
Book