Family receipts, or practical guide for the husbandman and housewife, containing a great variety of valuable recipes

by H. L. Barnum

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Cincinnati: A. B. Roff. Lincoln & Co. Printers, 1831. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 400; contemporary full mottled calf; gilt decoration and lettering on spine; wood-engraved tipped-in frontispiece with vignettes of farm life; additional woodcuts throughout the text; one gathering extended; spine rubbed; front hinge cracked; otherwise very good. Instructions and guidelines for performing various tasks related to farming, cooking, brewing, and other domestic

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