The Case Of The Manufacturers Of Soap Candles In The City Of New York Stated And Examined To Which Are

by Samuel Latham Mitchill

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Modern quarter blue morocco and cloth boards A vivid case study in the politics of smell, space, and civic tolerance in an expanding American city, and an early example of scientific rhetoric deployed in defense of an industry. A rare and revealing pamphlet advocating on behalf of New York's tallow chandlers and soap boilers, who were being publicly condemned due to reports that pestilential vapours were being emitted by the businesses. Subsequently those

• Binding: Leather

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