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Spons' Household Manual A treasury of domestic receipts and a guide for home management

Spons’ Household Manual presents itself as an all‑encompassing reference for the domestic sphere, beginning…

Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship

William Archer

This work is a practical handbook for aspiring dramatists, presented as a series of numbered chapters that…

Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training

United States. War Department

This work is a United States War Department handbook issued in 1917 for non‑commissioned officers, privates,…

Routledge's Manual of Etiquette

George Routledge

Routledge’s Manual of Etiquette is a practical guide to the conventions of polite society, beginning with a…

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and Other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject

Joseph Harris

The book is a practical agricultural manual that presents a series of informal conversations between the…

Telling fortunes by cards: a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany Gypsies

Mohammed Ali

This work is a comprehensive handbook on cartomancy, presenting a “symposium” of the various ancient and…

Monograms & Ciphers

A. A. (Albert Angus); Carlton Studio Turbayne

This work is a practical handbook for designers of monograms, ciphers, trademarks and other letter‑based…

Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature

J. H. Walden

Soil Culture is a practical handbook that seeks to gather the scattered knowledge of the past fifty years on…

Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All Occasions

This volume is a practical guide and anthology for anyone who must speak before a crowd, whether on a public…

Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre & Bayonet, and Sword Feats or, How to use a cut and thrust sword

J. M. Waite

This work is a practical manual for the disciplined study of sabre, singlestick, and the…

The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well; Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets, Frozen Delicacies, and Syrups

Maria Gentile

The Italian Cook Book presents itself as a practical guide to the home kitchen, aimed at an American audience…

Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others

Edwin Thomas Sachs

Sleight of Hand is a practical manual for the aspiring conjuror, presented as the second, substantially…

The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery With Nearly Two Thousand Practical Receipts Suited to the Income of All Classes

Alexis Soyer

The Gastronomic Regenerator presents itself as a comprehensive cookery manual, promising nearly two thousand…

Practical school discipline: Applied methods, part 1

Ray Coppock Beery

Practical School Discipline : Applied Methods, Part 1 is a teacher‑oriented manual that opens with a warm…

Chats on autographs

Alexander Meyrick Broadley

The work is a nonfiction guide to the world of autograph collecting, written by Alexander Meyrick Broadley,…

The Mother and Her Child

Sadler, William S. (William Samuel); Sadler, Lena K.

The work is a comprehensive manual on motherhood written jointly by physicians William S. Sadler and Lena K.

The Boy's Playbook of Science Including the Various Manipulations and Arrangements of Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus Required for the Successful Performance of Scientific Experiments in Illustration of the Elementary Branches of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy

John Henry Pepper

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Yingxing Song

Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling...

Eliza Leslie

Miss Leslie’s Lady’s New Receipt‑Book is a mid‑nineteenth‑century household manual that expands on the…

Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

F. Morley Fletcher

This work is a practical handbook on wood‑block printing that treats the craft as both a technical skill and…

A Text-Book of Horseshoeing, for Horseshoers and Veterinarians

A. Lungwitz

A Text‑Book of Horseshoeing is a practical manual aimed at both apprentices and veterinary students,…

The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours

A. Neely Hall

The Boy Craftsman is a practical handbook aimed at young boys who want to turn spare time into profitable…

The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined

John Mollard

The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined is a practical kitchen manual first published in 1802 by John…

What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The book presents itself as a practical handbook for children who keep asking, “What shall we do now?” Its…