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How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use

Archibald Williams

How It Works is a nineteenth‑century instructional volume that sets out to explain the principles behind…

Dollars and Sense

William Crosbie Hunter

Dollars and Sense is a practical self‑help guide that blends personal anecdotes with straightforward advice…

The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do

The Boy Mechanic, Volume I is a compendium of 700 hands‑on projects aimed at boys interested in making,…

Catechism of the locomotive

Forney, Matthias N. (Matthias Nace); Kosak, Georg

The work is a nineteenth‑century handbook that sets out, in a question‑and‑answer format, the fundamentals of…

Opportunities in Aviation

Sweetser, Arthur; Lamont, Gordon

The book is a practical treatise on aviation written just after World War I by two experienced pilots, an…

The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society

Cecil B. Hartley

Cecil B. Hartley’s Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness presents itself as a comprehensive…

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

John Parkinson

John Parkinson’s work is a comprehensive early‑modern manual that sets out, in three parts, a “garden of all…

Village Improvements and Farm Villages

George E. Waring

George E. Waring’s Village Improvements and Farm Villages is a practical treatise on civic beautification and…

The Art of German Cooking and Baking Revised and Enlarged Edition

Lina Meier

The Art of German Cooking and Baking Revised and Enlarged Edition, authored by Lina Meier, is a practical…

Lectures in Navigation

Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Lectures in Navigation is a practical instructional manual compiled for the Officers’ Material School of the…

Dramatic Technique

George Pierce Baker

The work is a practical handbook for aspiring playwrights, opening with a pointed declaration that “the…

Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Thomas Tusser

The work is a seventeenth‑century manual of household and farm management, compiled by Thomas Tusser and…

The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth

Miron Elisha Hard

The work is a practical guide to the mushrooms that grow in the fields, forests and glens of the American…

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

Charles Elmé Francatelli

This work is a practical manual aimed at the British working‑class household, offering step‑by‑step…

Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes

Henley’s Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes is a practical handbook assembled by an unnamed…

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

Ray Vaughn Pierce

The work is a nineteenth‑century popular medical handbook, billed as “The People’s Common Sense Medical…

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual

William Kitchiner

The work is a comprehensive nineteenth‑century manual that blends practical cookery with a health‑oriented…

Indian Conjuring

L. H. Branson

Indian Conjuring is a comparative study of stage magic that opens with a sweeping reflection on humanity’s…

How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions

S. S. Curry

This work is a self‑help guide that blends practical hygiene advice with the rhetoric of early‑20th‑century…

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is a self‑help treatise that treats time as the most valuable…

News writing: The gathering , handling and writing of news stories

M. Lyle Spencer

This work is a practical handbook for aspiring journalists, written by M. Lyle Spencer in 1917.

Practical Pointers for Patentees

Franklin Allison Cresee

Practical Pointers for Patentees is a straightforward guide aimed at inventors who have already secured a…

Color Value

C. R. Clifford

Color Value is a systematic treatise on the principles of interior decoration, written by C. R.

Palmistry for All

Cheiro

Palmistry for All is a practical manual that opens with a series of vivid case studies, beginning with a…