Ladies' Indispensable Assistant..
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- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Northport, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: 128 Nassau-Street, 1853. 8vo.; brown blind-stamped boards with gilt, hardcover; 138 pages; Title continues: "Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife. Containing more information for the price than any other work upon the subject. Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen, ladies' toilette table, directions for managing canary birds, also, safe directions for the management of children; Instruction for Ladies under various circumstances; a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine. Thus enabling each person to become his or her own physician. to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published; many of these recipes are entirely new and should be in the possession of every person in the land."; internally foxed and sunned edgeworn with spine ends and corners beginning to fray else very good.
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- Bookseller
- WellRead Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43517
- Title
- Ladies' Indispensable Assistant..
- Author
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: 128 Nassau-Street, 1853
- Keywords
- Social History, Home Economics, Recipes, Cooking, Medicine, Etiquette
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History;
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New York State orders must include appropriate sales tax. Books are returnable within ten days
About the Seller
WellRead Books
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Northport, New York
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