Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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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.
A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain
Author: Sir Henry ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Blue and white ware
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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A Reprint of W. Shakespere
Author: William ShakespearePaul Mellon's Legacy
Author: John BaskettPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300117469
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library ... Apr. 26, 1861 ...
Author: Guillaume LibriCatalogue of the mathematical, historical, bibliographical and miscellaneous portion of the celebrated library of Gugl. Libri
Author: Rare Book Collections
Author: Horace Richard ArcherPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the ... Library of M. Guglielmo Libri ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... on ... the 18th of July, 1861, Etc
Author: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri Carrucci Dalla Sommaia (Count.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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