Author: William Fisher LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Rare American History, Being the Library of William Fisher Lewis, Esq
Author: William Fisher LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Illustrated Catalogue of Americana from Historical Libraries
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
Author: Timothy DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newburyport (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Clipper Ship Sailing Cards
Author: Bruce D. RobertsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979469701
Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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The Compleat Housewife
Author: Eliza SmithPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449428258
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.
The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated
Author: George Wilkins KendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Facts of Reconstruction
Author: John Roy LynchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
Author: David Brion DavisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190283467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation.
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Author: Catalogue of Books, Broadsides, Documents of American Historical Interest, Including the Library of Henry N. Moeller of New York, and Important Government Publications from the New Hampshire Historical Society, to be Sold ... on ... February 1st and 2nd [1921] ...
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Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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