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The Radio Amateur's Hand Book A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony

A. Frederick Collins

The Radio Amateur’s Hand Book is a practical guide to the science and hobby of wireless telegraphy and…

Military Instructors Manual

Cole, J. P. (James Perry); Schoonmaker, Oliver

The work is a practical handbook for United States Army officers, compiled by James Perry Cole and Oliver…

The Power of Concentration

William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson’s The Power of Concentration is a self‑help manual that treats focus as a decisive…

Self-Help Mechanical Drawing: An Educational Treatise

N. Hawkins

The work is a practical handbook for anyone who must produce accurate technical drawings in the iron‑working…

Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, including modern practice with engine lathes, turret lathes, vertical and horizontal boring machines

Franklin Day Jones

Turning and Boring is a technical manual aimed at machinists, engineering students, and apprentices, offering…

Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations

James Slough Zerbe

Carpentry for Boys is a comprehensive instructional manual that begins with an exhaustive inventory of tools,…

Twentieth Century Culture and Deportment Or the Lady and Gentleman at Home and Abroad; Containing Rules of Etiquette for All Occasions, Including Calls; Invitations; Parties; Weddings; Receptions; Dinners and Teas; Etiquette of the Street; Public Places, Etc., Etc. Forming a Complete Guide to Self-Culture; the Art of Dressing Well; Conversation; Courtship; Etiquette for Children; Letter-Writing; Artistic Home and Interior Decorations, Etc.

Maud C. Cooke

The book presents itself as a comprehensive handbook of social etiquette for the turn‑of‑the‑century…

Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts

Kinne, Helen; Cooley, Anna M.

This textbook, authored by Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley, is a comprehensive guide to the household arts as…

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation

William Watson

The book is a practical horticultural guide that opens with a straightforward statement of purpose: to supply…

Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing

William E. Austin

The book is a technical manual that treats fur dressing and dyeing as a branch of applied chemistry.

Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies

Henry M. Robert

Robert M. Robert’s Pocket Manual of Rules of Order is a concise reference work for anyone who must conduct or…

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Joseph Devlin

This work is a concise guide to correct English usage, aimed at readers who lack the time or desire to wade…

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; Together with the Application and Observance of Talismen Charms, Spells and Incantations.

A. H. Noe

The work presents itself as a systematic manual of divination, devoted to interpreting dreams and visions in…

How to Cook Fish

Myrtle Reed

The book is a practical guide that opens with a vivid, almost lyrical description of the chase for “unshelled…

The Complete Angler 1653

Izaak Walton

The work is a seventeenth‑century treatise on fishing, first issued in 1653 by Richard Marriott in St…

The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses

L. Emmett Holt

The work is a practical handbook for mothers and nurses, offering a systematic catechism of infant care.

What a Young Woman Ought to Know

Mary Wood-Allen

What a Young Woman Ought to Know is a didactic health‑and‑morality manual written by Dr.

Motor Camping

Long, J. C. (John Cuthbert); Long, John D.

Motor camping is a practical guide to the burgeoning pastime of traveling the United States by automobile and…

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada

George Henry Tilton

The Fern Lover’s Companion is a practical field handbook for identifying the ferns that populate the…

The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction

John L. Ridgway

This work is a practical guide issued by the United States Geological Survey to assist authors and draftsmen…

The farmstead: The making of the rural home and the lay-out of the farm (5th edition)

Isaac Phillips Roberts

The work is a practical treatise on the design and economics of the American farmstead, written by Isaac…

The Modern Housewife or, Ménagère Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, with those of The Nursery and Sick Room, and Minute Directions for Family Management in All its Branches.

Alexis Soyer

Le ménagier de Paris (v. 1 & 2)

Anonymous

Le Ménagier de Paris se présente comme un ouvrage monumental dédié aux bonnes mœurs, à la cuisine et à la…

A thousand ways to please a husband with Bettina's best recipes

Weaver, Louise Bennett; LeCron, Helen Cowles

This work is a domestic guide wrapped in a light‑hearted narrative about a newlywed couple, Bettina and Bob,…