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The Game of Go: The National Game of Japan

Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith’s work is a practical guide to the Japanese board game Go, written in 1908 for an…

A child's guide to reading

John Albert Macy

This work is a practical handbook that treats reading as a skill to be cultivated rather than a list of…

Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage

Goerzen, John; Othman, Ossama

The book is a practical guide to Debian GNU/Linux, written by John Goerzen and Ossama Othman, aimed at…

The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; With Several Useful Tables, Numerous Schemes for Imposing Forms in Every Variety, Hints to Authors, Etc.

Thomas MacKellar

The American Printer is a comprehensive handbook for anyone involved in the trade of typography, from…

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.

Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

The Lady’s Own Cookery Book, third edition (1844), presents itself as a comprehensive domestic guide compiled…

Seasoning of Wood

J. B. Wagner

Seasoning of Wood is a technical treatise by J. B. Wagner that sets out to fill a gap in early‑20th‑century…

Practical taxidermy: a manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

Montagu Browne

Practical Taxidermy is a nineteenth‑century instructional manual aimed at the amateur naturalist who wishes…

How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information

Francis Hervé

The work is a 19th‑century guide‑book that doubles as a social commentary on travel to Paris in 1842.

The artillerist's manual and British soldier's compendium

F. A. Griffiths

The work is a sprawling nineteenth‑century handbook for British artillery and infantry, compiled by Major F.

The boke of Saint Albans: Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour

Juliana Berners

The work known as The Book of Saint Albans is a fifteenth‑century compilation that brings together three…

Self-instructor in the art of hair work, dressing hair, making curls, switches, braids, and hair jewelry of every description.

Mark Campbell

Mark Campbell’s work is a practical handbook that promises to demystify the entire craft of hair‑work, from…

Host and Guest: A Book About Dinners, Dinner-giving, Wines, and Desserts

A. V. Kirwan

This work is a household guide rather than a conventional cookbook, written by A. V.

Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller

Hornaday, William T. (William Temple); Holland, W. J.

The book is a comprehensive, nineteenth‑century manual that treats the whole enterprise of zoological…

An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design

David Allan Low

The work is a practical textbook for aspiring engineers, aimed at replacing the outdated habit of having…

Desserts and Salads

Gesine Lemcke

Desserts and Salads is a practical kitchen manual that opens with a series of precise sauce recipes, each…

How to Succeed; Or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune

Orison Swett Marden

The work is a self‑help treatise that opens with a rousing call to personal responsibility, framing “manhood”…

Harper's Electricity Book for Boys

Joseph H. Adams

Harper’s Electricity Book for Boys is a practical manual that invites a curious youngster to explore the…

English-Bisaya Grammar, in Twenty Eight Lessons

This work is a practical grammar guide for English‑speaking missionaries who need to learn the Visayan…

Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples

Frank Chouteau Brown

The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews

Margaret C. Conkling

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

George William Askinson

This work is a comprehensive manual on the science and craft of perfumery, written by George William…

The art of travel: or, Shifts and contrivances available in wild countries

Francis Galton

Francis Galton’s The Art of Travel is a practical handbook born of his own 1850‑51 expedition across…

Texas Fossils: An Amateur Collector's Handbook

William Henry Matthews

The book is a practical guide for anyone who wants to turn the curiosity of finding ancient shells, bones or…

Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Big Dummy’s Guide to the Internet is a practical handbook produced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in…