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Handicraft for boys

A. Frederick Collins

Handicraft for Boys is a practical manual written by A. Frederick Collins, the inventor of the wireless…

The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes

Mrs. W. G. Waters

The Cook’s Decameron is a culinary handbook that frames its extensive collection of Italian recipes within a…

Beeton's Book of Needlework

Mrs. Beeton

Beeton’s Book of Needlework is a comprehensive manual that opens with a series of detailed instructions for a…

Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

Cooley, Arnold James; Tuson, Richard Vine

Cooley’s Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information is a massive reference work that aims to…

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers

William Walker Atkinson

The work is a systematic treatise on the hidden faculties of the human mind, presented as a series of…

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance

The work is a formal naval manual issued by the United States Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance in early 1866.

Glacier National Park [Montana]

United States. Department of the Interior

The work is an official guide produced by the United States Department of the Interior that combines park…

The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do

The book is a practical handbook aimed at boys who want to learn a useful trade, and it opens with a detailed…

The book of cheese

Thom, Charles; Fisk, W. W.

The book of Cheese is a comprehensive technical guide that opens with a sweeping overview of how cheese has…

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup

Cicely Kent

Kent Cicely’s Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves is a practical guide to the art of tasseography, presented as a…

Principles and practice of agricultural analysis. Volume 2 (of 3), Fertilizers

Harvey Washington Wiley

Harvey W. Wiley’s Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis, Volume II, is a technical manual devoted…

A text-book of assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.

Beringer, C. (Cornelius); Beringer, J. J.

This work is a practical textbook on the chemistry of assaying, written for miners, metallurgists and…

The Physical Training of Children

Pye Henry Chavasse

The work is a practical handbook on child‑care written by physician Pye Henry Chavasse.

Hoyle's Games Modernized

Hoffmann, Professor; Hoyle, Edmond

Hoyle’s Games Modernized is a comprehensive reference work that gathers the rules and strategies for a wide…

Public Speaking

Clarence Stratton

Clarence Stratton’s Public Speaking is a practical treatise that begins by tracing the historic dominance of…

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home

Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira); Ziemann, Hugo

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) is a sprawling domestic reference that combines practical recipes with a broad…

The Art of Interior Decoration

Wood, Grace; Burbank, Emily

The book is a practical guide to interior decoration written by Grace Wood and Emily Burbank, published in…

Elementary cryptanalysis

Helen Fouché Gaines

Helen Fouché Gaines’s Elementary Cryptanalysis is a practical textbook that sets out to teach the…

The Art of Entertaining

M. E. W. Sherwood

The work is a sprawling manual on the customs, theory, and practice of hospitality, written by M. E. W.

The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture

Benvenuto Cellini

Astrology: How to Make and Read Your Own Horoscope

Sepharial

The work is a compact handbook that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the principles and practice of…

Little Wars; A Game for Boys From Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for That More Intelligent Sort of Girl Who Likes Boys' Games and Books.

H. G. Wells

The work is a nonfiction treatise on a tabletop war game that H. G.

The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair

Otto A. Witte

The book is a hands‑on manual aimed at the automobile battery repairman, written by Otto A.

Identification of the Larger Fungi

Roy Watling

The book is a practical field guide aimed at students of mycology, though it also welcomes the interested…