Perfumes and their preparation: Containing complete directions for making handkerchief perfumes, smelling-salts, sachets, fumigating pastils; Preparations for the Care of the Skin, the Mouth, the Hair; Cosmetics, Hair Dyes, and Other Toilet Articles

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

Anonymous

The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information presents itself as a single‑volume handbook aimed specifically at…

The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soap, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Preparing Artificial Fruit-Essences, Etc.

G. W. Septimus Piesse

The work is a nineteenth‑century manual that treats the sense of smell as a neglected yet vital faculty,…

A practical treatise on the manufacture of perfumery: Comprising Directions for Making All Kinds of Perfumes, Sachet Powders, Fumigating Materials, Dentrifices, Cosmetics, Etc., Etc., with a Full Account of the Volatile Oils, Balsams, Resins, and Other Natural and Artificial Perfume-substances, Including the Manufacture of Fruit Ethers, and Tests of Their Purity

C. Deite

My secrets of beauty: Including more than 1,000 valuable recipes for preparations used and recommended by Mme. Cavalieri herself

Lina Cavalieri

An Elementary Study of Chemistry

McPherson, William; Henderson, William Edwards

An Elementary Study of Chemistry is a textbook‑style treatise that begins by grounding the reader in the…

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist is a seventeenth‑century scientific tract that reads more like a series…