A Compleat Body Of Distilling Explaining The Mysteries Of The Science In A Most Easy And Familiar

by George Smith

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Bound to style in quarter calf and marbled paper boards, spine with red morocco lettering piece One of the most detailed early-18th-century English manuals of compound distilling, documenting the maturing commercial spirits trade alongside household and apothecary cordials. A practical handbook of early Georgian distilling, published at the cusp of Britain's cordial and gin-drinking age, this work explicates both the preparation of compound waters and the running

• Binding: Leather

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