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THE VINTAGE REMEDIES, FORMULAS & RECIPES COLLECTION
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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 160 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library containing literally 1,000’s of secret formulas, forgotten remedies and vintage household receipts, many of which are just as useful and valuable today as they were all those years ago.
This really is vast treasure trove of information containing vintage formulas, methods, recipes and processes from all kinds of crafts, skills and professions - general household recipes, soap making, taxidermy, chemists and druggists, sacred Indian medicinal formulas, trade secrets, health and beauty, housekeeping, home mechanics, veterinary formulae, meat curing, glass making, toiletries, paint-making, workshop formulas, private recipes and loads more!
Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in discovering and practicing vintage recipes and secret formulas. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….
This wonderful collection of 160 rare books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations / photos for the reader. This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.
The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:
1,000 dollars worth of useful information and valuable recipes - E. Bowman (1857)
1000 choice recipes, mysteries and disclosures, touching every branch of business - G. S. Mellen (1866)
1001 household hints - O. V. Holstein (1910)
A collection of valuable formulas and recipes for the manufacturer, merchant, farmer and household - E. J. Hemm (1915)
A collection of valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy - H. Parnell (1819)
A cyclopaedia of practical receipts, and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy - A. J. Cooley (1856)
A Cyclopaedia of six thousand pratical receipts - A. J. Cooley (1851)
A manual of useful knowledge, being a collection of valuable miscellaneous receipts and philosophical experiments - W. Pybus (1810)
A new collection of genuine receipts, for the preparation and execution of curious arts, and interesting experiments, medical and miscellaneous, domestic and agricultural - R. Porter (1831)
A practical treatise on friction, lubrication, fats and oils, including the manufacture of lubricating oils, leather oils, paint oils, solid lubricants and greases - E. F. Dieterichs (1917)
A thousand and one formulas - the laboratory handbook for the experimenter - S. Gernsback (1920)
Alexander's family friend - C. W. Alexander (1867)
Audels household helps, hints and receipts - three thousand references (1913)
Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information - G. E. Blakelee (1889)
Captive secrets - a collection of formulas for general use (1895)
Catalogue of minerals with their formulas, etc. - T. Egleston (1863)
Chemical recipes, nearly one thousand modern formulae - Atlas Chemical Company (1896)
Christy's cyclopedia, or, How to do everything, and how everything is done - T. J. Christy (1871)
Cyclopedia of medicine; or, The household friend; containing valuable prescriptions and formulae - E. McConkey (1892)
Cyclopedia of valuable receipts - a treasure-house of useful knowledge for the every-day wants of life - H. B. Scammell (1897)
Dr. Chase's combination receipt book - A. W. Chase (1915)
Dr. Chase's recipes - A. W. Chase (1870)
Dr. Chase's recipes; or, Information for everybody an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes - A. W. Chase (1867)
Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide - A. M'Milan (1882)
Druggist Todd's ready reference book - J. B. Todd (1894)
Edward's simplified system - C. W. Edwards (1919)
Emergency helps for housekeepers and others - G. Fleming (1906)
Encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes - W. Dick (1872)
Enquire within upon everything - to which is added enquire within upon fancy needlework - R. K. Philip (1870)
Eureka hand book and home helper - J. T. Harrison (1909)
Every day home advice and the practical business of life (1882)
Family directory; or, Forty years' experience of a practical housekeeper; with many valuable hints on health, farming, gardening, fruits and flowers - A. Cox (1867)
Family receipts, or Practical guide for the husbandman and housewife, containing a great variety of valuable recipes - H. Barnum (1831)
Farm and garden rule-book; a manual of ready rules and reference with recipes, precepts, formulas, and tabular information - L. H. Bailey (1919)
Fermented liquors - a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar - L. Feuchtwanger (1858)
Grocers' manual containing recipes, formulas and instructions for the manufacture of baking powders, flavoring extracts, essences, condiments, etc. (1888)
Harper's household handbook - a guide to easy ways of doing woman's work - M. McCulloch-Williams (1913)
Henley's twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes, containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes and moneymaking methods - G. D. Hiscox (1914)
Hoover's book of recipes, an invaluable collection of private and practical recipes, and hidden secrets revealed - M. S. Hoover (1888)
Household and farmers' cyclopedia - one hundred thousand facts for the people - D. R. Shafer (1878)
Household discoveries - S. L. Morse (1913)
I secreti de la signora Isabella Cortese - I. Cortese (1565)
J. R. Stafford's family receipt book, contains one hundred and fifty household receipts - J. R. Stafford (1856)
Johnson's fact book - T. G. Johnson (1914)
Kramer's book of trade secrets for the manufacturer and jobber - A. Kramer (1905)
M. Young's great book secrets containing recipes - M. Young (1878)
Machinery's shop receipts and formulas - 412 shop receipts and formulas selected from Machinery, classified and revised (1911)
Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts containing a complete practical library, relative to agriculture, bees, bleaching - C. MacKenzie (1921)
Mackenzie's ten thousand receipts, in all the useful and domestic arts - C. MacKenzie (1865)
Magic cook book and housekeepers guide (1897)
Manufacturers' practical recipes - L. Jameson (1902)
Money making formulas (1921)
Monograph on flavoring extracts with essences, syrups, and colorings. Also, formulas for their preparation - J. Harrop (1891)
Mother's remedies - over one thousand tried and tested remedies - T. J. Ritter (1916)
Mrs. A.B. Marshall's cookery book, with seventy illustrations - A. B. Marshall (1894)
My little book. A compendium of useful information; containing descriptions, directions, formulæ, tablea, recipes, etc. - J. H. Best (1879)
Non-secret formulas. A collection of over four thousand formulas and one thousand prize prescriptions for the use of physicians and druggists - T. M. Griffiths (1897)
One thousand valuable secrets, in the elegant and useful arts - W. W. Woodward (1795)
One thousand ways to make money - P. Fox (1900)
Our home counselor, a practical cyclopedia for daily use - L. W. Yaggy (1873)
Paint making and color grinding - C. L. Uebele (1913)
Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, linning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming, in four books - W. Salmon (1675)
Pope's encylopedia for daily use - E. L. Pope (1914)
Practical hand-book of toilet preparations and their uses. Also recipes for the household - J. A Begy (1889)
Pure air, ozone and water; a practical treatise of their utilisation and value in oil, grease, soap, paint, glue and other industries - W. B. Cowell (1900)
Receipts and remedies; useful hints for everyone on health, beauty, clothing, food. The housewife's complete handbook - L. A. Flemming (1908)
Recipes for coloring - A. McClure & Co. (1871)
Recipes for coloring - Bayard's City Drug Store (1882)
Recipes for flint glass making - being leaves from the mixing book of several experts in the flint glass trade (1907)
Recipes for the colour, paint, varnish, oil, soap and drysaltery trades (1902)
Scientific American handy book of facts and formulae - A. A. Hopkins (1921)
Secret nostrums and systems of medicine, a book of formulas - C. W. Oleson (1894)
Secrets of meat curing and sausage making - Heller, B. & Co. (1908)
Secrets of wise men, chemists and great physicians - W. K. David (1889)
Six hundred receipts, worth their weight in gold - J. Marquart (1867)
Spons' household manual - a treasury of domestic receipts and guide for home management (1887)
Tested formulas and useful house and farm recipes - T. McKenny (1910)
The American domestic cyclopædia, a volume of universal ready reference for American women in American homes - F. M. Lupton (1890)
The American medical formulary - J. J. Reese (1850)
The American pocket library of useful knowledge - T. C. Clarke (1841)
The arcana of arts and sciences, or, Farmers' & mechanics' manual, containing a great variety of valuable receipts and useful discoveries - M. Parker (1824)
The artist's and mechanic's repository - J. Pilkington (1839)
The artist's guide and mechanic's own book - J. Pilkington (1853)
The book of knowledge and guide to rapid wealth. 1000 facts worth remembering (1891)
The book of knowledge and sure guide to rapid wealth (1873)
The century cook book and home physician - J. A. Hansey (1897)
The chemists' and druggists' compendium - R. J. Owen (1871)
The complete economical cook, and frugal housewife - M. Holland (1853)
The domestic oracle or, A complete system of modern cookery and family economy - A. Murray (1826)
The Druggists circular formula book - in which may be found recipes for hundreds of unofficial preparations in daily demand (1920)
The druggist's general receipt book, containing a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. - H. Beasley (1886)
The druggist's general receipt book, containing numerous recipes for patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. - H. Beasley (1850)
The druggist's hand-book of private formulas - J. H. Nelson (1879)
The English and American mechanic. Comprising a collection of over 3000 receipts, rules and tables - B. F. Van Cleve (1874)
The Era formulary. 5000 formulas for druggists (1893)
The ERA formulary for manufactures, druggists, physicians, hospitals, household use and for industrial workers a collection of nearly 8000 formulas - W. C. Alpers (1914)
The family cyclopedia; or, Home counselor - S. L. Louis (1886)
The family receipt-book; or, Universal repository of useful knowledge and experience in all the various branches of domestic oeconomy (1808)
The formula. A book for laundrymen, containing formulas for various laundry operations, including washing, bleaching, bluing, etc. - E. H. Lisk (1889)
The golden cabinet - being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts - W. Spotswood (1793)
The Guide to wealth, or, How to get rich - containing rare and valuable secrets, money-making inventions, and practical recipes (1892)
The hand-book of practical receipts of every-day use - T. F. Branston (1857)
The hand-book of science - M. L. Byrn (1867)
The helping hand a collection of rare and valuable recipes comp. from entirely reliable and authentic sources - E. A. Teall (1873)
The home and farm manual - J. Periam (1884)
The home mechanic and complete self-instructor in carpentry, painting, horse-shoeing, soap making, candy making, baking, taxidermy, tanning, etc. - R. J. Schofield (1897)
The home mixing of fertilizers and straight fertilizer formulas - W. S. Myers (1911)
The homekeeper - S. D. Farrar (1872)
The house servant's directory, or, A monitor for private families - R. Roberts (1828)
The household companion; comprising a complete cook-book--practical household recipes, aids and hints for household decorations - A. A. Johnson (1909)
The household guide, or, Domestic cyclopedia - B. G. Jefferis (1897)
The house-keeper's guide and everybody's handbook containing over five hundred new and valuable recipes (1870)
The housekeeper's reference book and domestic counselor - A. Goessling (1910)
The housekeeper's year-book - H. Campbell (1883)
The lady's every-day book - a practical guide in the elegant arts and daily difficulties of domestic life - R. K. Philip (1880)
The magic mirror, or, Art of ornamenting glass to which is added the system of Arabian horse taming, also a collection of rare and practical recipes and other valuable information - M. L. Byrn (1869)
The manual of receipts; being a collection of formulæ and process for artisans - S. P. Johnston (1899)
The maple leaf Canadian recipe book - K. K. Bowker (1901)
The mechanic's friend - a collection of receipts and practical suggestions - W. Axon (1875)
The medical formulary - comprising standard and approved formulae for the preparations and compounds employed in medical practice - H. Beasley (1856)
The milliner's guide, a complete handy reference book for the workroom, embraces the professional experience of ages - j. Bottomley (1917)
The mine of wealth and guide for the million containing the secret system and instructions for the manufacture of wines, liquors, cordials, and bitters - W. Fitzgibbon (1867)
The new family receipt book, containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy (1819)
The new family receipt-book - containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy - M. Rundell (1820)
The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness (1824)
The new helping hand, a collection of family receipts - E. Stone (1888)
The new household receipt book - containing maxims, directions, and specifics for promoting health, comfort, and improvement in the homes of the people - S. Hale (1853)
The new London family cook; or, Town and country housekeeper's guide - D. MacDonald (1800)
The new standard formulary, comprising in part I all preparations official or included in the pharmacopeias, dispensatories or formularies of the world - A. E. Hiss (1920)
The North American compiler, containing a large number of selected, approved, and warranted receipts - G. Girardey (1844)
The people's friend - J. A. Melville (1888)
The people's friend a new and valuable compendium of miscellaneous and domestic receipts - W. F. Tuthill (1859)
The people's vade-mecum - comprising a collection of valuable receipts of general usefulness for man and beast - G. W. Merchant (1870)
The pharmaceutist's and druggist's practical receipt book - T. F. Branston (1865)
The pocket formulary, and synopsis of the British & foreign pharmacopoeias - H. Beasley (1851)
The practical assistant, and workshop companion - J. Phin (1891)
The practical cook, English and foreign, containing a great variety of old receipts, improved and re-modelled - J. Bregion (1845)
The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas - A. Hopkins (1919)
The secrets of money making (1894)
The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide - A. A. Johnson (1901)
The Swimmer manuscript - Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions - J. Mooney (1921)
The universal assistant and complete mechanic - containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, etc. - R. Moore (1880)
The useful companion and artificer's assistant. Containing everything for everybody, including nearly six thousand valuable recipes - H. B. Allen (1876)
The workshop companion - a collection of useful and reliable recipes, rules, processes, methods, wrinkles, and practical hints for the household and the shop - J. Phin (1879)
The workshop manual and compendium of useful information - J. J. Davies (1896)
Trade secrets and private recipes - J. Phin (1887)
Treasures old and new. A collection of carefully tested houshold recipes - J. A. Hansey (1892)
Twenty ways to make money, a valuable collection of rare and practical recipes - M. L. Byrn (1869)
Two thousand five hundred practical recipes in family cookery, in which the whole art of preparing food and drink for the human stomach is simplified and explained - J. Jennings (1844)
Useful cathartics - B. Fantus (1920)
Useful tips; a handybook of miscellaneous information - A. A. Wentz (1921)
Valuable receipts; or, The mystery of wealth; containng the lady's cook-book, together with several hundred very rare receipts and patents, to be found in no other work - J. Prescott (1845)
Valuable recipes for coloring from Apothecary Hall - H. D. Thatcher (1860)
Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades (1795)
Valuable secrets in arts, trades, etc. (1816)
Watchmaker's and jeweler's practical hand book. A reliable compendium of valuable receipts and suggestions - G. Hazlitt (1892)
Weston's 56 ready ways to make money - J. Weston (1853)
What I know; or, Hints on the daily duties of a housekeeper. Comprising nearly five hundred receipts, for cooking, preserving, pickling, etc. - E. Nicholson (1856)
What to do and how to do it - a home manual - J. P. Bushnell (1909)
Young's Demonstrative translation of scientific secrets - D. Young (1861)
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