Early American Herb Recipes
by Brown, Alice Cooke
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Bonanza, 1966 4to green cloth stamped in black on spine. 162 pages. The over 500 Herb Recipes are reproduced exactly as they appeared in their original sources - many famous books of the seventeenth thru mid nineteenth century with a reference to the book and date. Chapters include: Herb Gardens and Borders; Medicinal Uses of Herbs; Toiletries, Perfumes, Pomatum; Culinary use or Herbs; and Other Household use of Herbs. 23 black and white plates. 92 sketches of early American herbs which are facsimile reproductions of the engravings that appeared in the 1849 edition of Dr. W. Beach's "The American Practice Condensed, or the Family Physician....". Includes 128 sources in the Bibliography. Index. Dust jacket has a 1" piece missing from front with a short closed tear. near Fine/ Good. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13556
- Title
- Early American Herb Recipes
- Author
- Brown, Alice Cooke
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bonanza
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Herbs, Medicine, Cooking, Preserves
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
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