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Cheese Making: Cheddar, Swiss, Brick, Limburger, Edam, Cottage
by Decker, John W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fair to g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Columbus, Ohio: Published by the author, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. fair to g. Quarto. xiii, 192pp. Original yellow cloth with decorative black frame and lettering on cover, black lettering and ruling on spine. Frontispiece photograph. Contents: Constitution of Milk, Secretion and Contamination, Milk Testing, Enzymes, The Deportment of Rennet, Cheddar Cheese, Cutting and Heating the Curd, Drawing the Whey-Dipping and Milling the Curd, and twelve more chapters of professional instructions, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings and tables. Binding with possibly cheesy staining at bottom and foredges, continuing throughout block at gutter, here a third going upwards and diminishing towards end of book, and through page 6 at foredge top. Stamps and inked name of former owner on inside cover and front free endpaper, stamp on inside back cover. Starting slightly at pages 64 and 128 with a few sprinkled stains on edges. Binding in overall fair, interior in good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44607
- Title
- Cheese Making: Cheddar, Swiss, Brick, Limburger, Edam, Cottage
- Author
- Decker, John W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair to g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Published by the author
- Place of Publication
- Columbus, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1900
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- b/w photography, drawing, technical drawing, tables, cheese production, cheese
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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