List of e-books of old knowledge of 100+ years ago.

Old Knowledge

An extensive list of E-Books (PDF format) of Old Knowledge in the way things were done 100+ years ago.

These books are a testimony of the skills, ingenuity and resolve of our fore fathers.

My Fathers motto “It CAN be done!” …rodev…

All these books are in Public Domain. Author of this list unknown!  

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Henley’s twentieth century formulas

• Henley’s twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes, containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes and moneymaking methods for the practical use of manufacturers, mechanics, housekeepers and home workers (1914)

Heating / Refrigeration Ventilation

• Refrigeration, cold storage and ice-making; a practical treatise on the art and science of refrigeration (1912)
• Answers_on_refrigeration_and_ice_making_a_practical_treatise_with_illustrations 1914
• Audels Answers on Refrigeration and Ice Making 1911
• Furnace Heating A Practical and Comprehensive Treatise on Warming Buildings with Hot Air 1909
• Furnace_heating_a_practical_and_comprehensive_treatise_on_warming_buildings_with_hot_air 1915
• A Practical Treatise on the Construction, Heating, and Ventilation of Hothouses (1881)
• Principles_of_heating_a_practical_and_comprehensive_treatise_on_applied_theory_in_heating 1912

Farming (General)

• Practical farming a treatise on present farming conditions 1907
• First Principles of Feeding Farm Animals A Practical Treatise on the (1912)
• The farmers and emigrants complete guide or, A hand book, with copious hints, recipes, and tables designed for the farmer and emigrant (1849).pdf
• Agricultural surveying a practical treatise (1884).pdf
• The farmer’s manual being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees (1819)
• A muck manual for farmers a treatise on the physical and chemical properties of soils the chemistry of manures including also the subjects of composts, artificial manures and irrigation (1856)
• Making the farm pay (1915).pdf

Farm Implements, Tools, Fencing etc.

• Handy Farm Devices and how to Make Them.
• Barn implements and machines a practical treatise (1884).pdf
• Concrete on the Farm and in the Shop A Complete Practical Treatise 1916.pdf
• Farm roads, fences, and gates a practical treatise (1883).pdf
• Modern farm buildings, being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, 1913
• Farm buildings. A compilation of plans for general farm barns, cattle barns, dairy barns, horse barns, sheep folds, swine pens, poultry houses, silos, feeding racks, farm gates, sheds, portable fences, concrete construction, handy devices, etc..pdf

Poultry, Fowl, Birds

• INHERITANCE IN POULTRY 1906
• Making A Poultry House1912
• Nature_and_its_natural_laws_a_practical_treatise_on_poultry_culture_for_market_and_profit 1901
• Poultry Craft 1904
• Profitable Poultry Production 1920
• A practical treatise on breeding, rearing, and fattening all kinds of domestic poultry, pheasants, pigeons, and rabbits : also, the management of swine, milch cows, and bees, with instructions for the private brewery on cider, perry, and British wine making (1842)
• 200 eggs a year per hen: how to get them. A practical treatise on egg making and its conditions and profits in poultry (1904)
  
• How to feed poultry for any purpose with profit; a complete and authoritative treatise on feeding all classes of poultry–nutritive values of feeds–formulas to meet every probable requirement and for fowls kept under all conditions–practical rules for feeding, and how to adapt them to individual requirements-a text book for the beginner-a reference book for the expert(1920)
• The growth of White Plymouth Rock chickens (1926)
• The Poultry Doctor Including the Homeopathic Treatment and Care of Chickens, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks and Singing Birds, Also a Materia Medica of the Chief Remedies.pdf
• The American Poulterer’s Companion A Practical Treatise on the Breeding, Rearing, Fattening (1852)
• Wyandottes, silver, golden, black and white. Their origin, history, characteristics and standard points; how to mate, judge and rear them for exhibition and commercial purposes; with a chapter on their diseases and treatment (1891)
• Biggle poultry book a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry (1917)
• The reliable pheasant standard, a practical guide on the culture, breeding, rearing, trapping, preserving of pheasants, game birds, ornamental land and water fowl, singing birds, etc (c1910)
• Making poultry pay (1907).pdf

Sheep

• A technical study of the maintenance and fattening of lambs and their utilization of a ration of alfalfa hay and corn (1928)
• Relative energy value of alfalfa, clover, and timothy hay for the maintenance of sheep (1928)
• The_shepherd’s_manual_A_practical_treatise_on_the_sheep 1876

Pigs

• Experiments in pig feeding (1891)
• Feeding pigs on pasture (1924)
• Biggle swine book much old and more new hog knowledge, arranged in alternate streaks of fat and lean (1899)

Rabbits

• Management of market rabbits and directory of breeders (1918)
• Rabbits as a food supply & how to fold them on our poor pastures 1883

Apiculture

• A Dictionary of Practical Apiculture Giving the Correct Meaning of Nearly Five Hundred Terms (1884)
• How to keep bees; a handbook for the use of beginners (1905)
• How to keep bees for profit (1910)
• Practical beekeeping designed for the use of the beginner and small apiarist (1907)
• The bee-keeper’s directory; or, The theory and practice of bee culture, in all its departments, the result of eighteen years personal study of their habits and instincts (1861)
• The honey bee a manual of instruction in apiculture (1899)
• A_practical_treatise_on_the_hive_and_honey-bee.pdf

Irrigation, Sewage, Plumbing and water

• Egyptian irrigation (1913)
• Punjab rivers and works A description of the shifting rivers of the Punjab plains and of works on them, namely inundation canals, flood embankments and river training works, with the principles for designing and working them (1912)
• Farm development an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences
• Irrigation farming a handbook for the proper application of water in the production of crops (1902)
• Some details of water-works construction (1888)
• American sewerage practice (1914)
• Dams and Weirs An Analytical and Practical Treatise on Gravity Dams 1915
• Rural Hydraulics A Practical Treatise on Rural Household Water Supply- (1877)
• Standard Practical Plumbing an Exhaustive Treatise on All Branches 1910.pdf
• Water Engineering. A Practical Treatise on the MEASUREMENT, STORAGE, CONVEYANCE, AND UTILISATION OF WATER FOR THE SUPPLY OF TOWNS, FOR MILL POWER, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 1888
• Water-analysis a practical treatise on the examination of potable water (1868)
• Hydroelectric developments and engineering a practical and theoretical treatise on the development, design, construction, equipment and operation of hydroelectric transmission plants (1909)

Equine

• “Centaur”; or the “Turn out”, a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses .. (1878)
• The bridle bits  a treatise on practical horsemanship (1886)
• The Horse in America A Practical Treatise on the Various Types Common in the United States (1905).pdf
• A practical treatise on the most obvious diseases peculiar to horses together with direction for their most rational treatment containing, also, some valuable information on the art of shoeing horses (1863)
• Artistic horse-shoeing a practical guide and scientific treatise giving improved methods of shoeing, with special directions for shaping shoes to cure different diseases of the foot, and for the correction of vaulty action in trotters (1899)
• Biggle horse book a concise and practical treatise on the horse adapted to the needs of farmers and others who have a kindly regard for this noble servitor of man (1894)
• Feeding farm work horses (1911).pdf
• Principles of horse feeding (1903)
• The horse its care, maintenance, breeding, rearing, ailments, diseases and general treatment of the horse, including the cob, pony, hackney, and nag with hints on stable construction, breaking in, buying, and the management of the donkey (1911)
• Soybean hay and sweet-clover pasture for growing purebred draft fillies (1927)
• Harness making (1904)

Veterinarian

• The Farmer’s Veterinarian a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm (1909)
• Every man his own cattle doctor : containing the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all the diseases incident to oxen, sheep, and swine : and a sketch of the anatomy and physiology of neat cattle (1844)
• Every man his own cattle doctor, or, A practical treatise on the diseases of horned cattle : being a concise and familiar description of all the diseases incident to oxen, cows, and sheep; with the most simple and effectual method of curing each disorder in all its various stages; and the most efficacious treatment of cows, before, at, and after the time of calving, and also of ewes during the lambing season (1814)
• A modern and practical treatise on the diseases of horses, horned cattle and sheep (1838)
• A practical treatise on the breeding cow, and extraction of the calf, before and at the time of calving … including observations on the diseases of neat cattle generally (1807)

Health / Medical

• A Practical treatise on diseases of children (1873)
• A Practical treatise upon eczema: Including Its Lichenous and Impetiginous Forms (1875)
• Culpeper’s English physician.pdf
• The complete herbal (ca 1650s)The complete herbal (ca 1650s)[/url]
• The complete herbal : to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs … to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and Key to physic … forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic … to which is also added … receipts, selected from the author’s Last legacy to his wife (ca 1650s)
• Eczema and its management A Practical Treatise Based on the Study of Three Thousand Cases 1881
• Practical Homoeopathic Treatise on the Diseases of Women and Children (1866)
• Epitome of Homoeopathic Medicines (1876)
  
• The family herbal, or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience By Author John Hill 1714-1775

Fishing, Fish, Tackle, fly fishing, Angling

• The Angler’s Guide Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling 1815
• Trout culture ; a practical treatise on the art of spawning, hatching, and rearing trout (1877)
• Book of the black bass, comprising its complete scientific and life history, together with a practical treatise on angling and fly fishing and a full description of tools, tackle and implements (1881)
• Home fishing and home waters. A practical treatise on fish culture(1888)
• Red palmer : a practical treatise on fly fishing (1888)
• Roach, rudd & bream fishing Being a practical treatise on angling with float and ledger in still water and stream Including a few remarks on surface fishing for rudd and roach (1896)
• The angler’s guide being a new, plain, and complete practical treatise on the art of angling for sea, river, and pond fish, deduced from many years practice, experience, and observation (1825).pdf
• The book of the pike A practical treatise on the various methods of jack fishing with an analysis of the tackle employed, the history of the fish, Also a chapter on spinning for trout in lakes and rivers (1865)
• The troller’s guide being a complete practical treatise on the art of trolling or, Fishing for jack and pike (1841)
• The trollers guide a new and complete practical treatise on the art of trolling … for jack and pike … To which is added the best method of baiting and laying lines for large eels (1820)
• The vade-mecum of fly-fishing for trout beings a complete practical treatise on that branch of the art of angling; with plain and copious instructions for the manufacture of artificial flies (1851)
• The edible clams, mussels and scallops of California (1920)
• How to angle including trolling and spinning (1800).pdf

Firearms / Hunting

• The Art of Wing Shooting A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shot-gun (1895)
• Cartridge manufacture a treatise covering the manufacture of rifle cartridge cases, bullets, powders, primers and cartridge clips(1916)
• The complete manual for young sportsmen : with directions for handling the gun, the rifle, and the rod, the art of shooting on the wing, the breaking, management, and hunting of the dog, the varieties and habits of game, river, lake, and sea fishing, etc., etc., etc. : prepared for the instruction and use of the youth of America (1856)
• The American rifle; a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle (1918)
• The wild-fowler a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical (1859)
• The hunter’s handbook, containing a description of all articles required in camp, with hints on provisions and stores and receipts for camp cooking (1885)

Trapping, Snares, Furs, Hides etc.

• Deadfalls and snares a book on instruction for trappers about these and other home-made traps (1907)
• How to trap and snare a complete manual for the sportsman, game preserver, gamekeeper, and amateur ([1910])
• Mink trapping; a book of instruction giving many methods of trapping (c1906)
• Science of trapping describes the fur bearing animals, their nature, habits and distribution, with practical methods for their capture ([c1909])
• Steel traps. Describes the various makes and tells how to use them also chapters on care of pelts, etc (1907)
• The trappers guide a manual of instructions for capturing all kinds of fur-bearing animals, and curing their skins with observations on the fur-trade, hints on life in the woods, and narratives of trapping and hunting excursions (1872)
• Camp life in the woods and the tricks of trapping and trap making; containing comprehensive hints on camp shelter, etc (1881)

Shelter, Housing, Architectural

• Wilderness homes a book of the log cabin (1908)
• The dangers of combustible roof coverings : shingle roofs as conflagration spreaders, being some lessons for the British possessions overseas (1917)
• Architectural hardwood finishing; a practical treatise on modern methods of finishing the wood work of new buildings (1906)
• The American cottage builder a series of designs, plans, and specifications, from $200 to $20,000 Together with warming, ventilation, drainage, painting, and landscape gardening(1854)
• Cottage Houses for Village and Country Homes Together with Complete Plans (1883)
• Cottages and Cottage Life Containing Plans for Country Houses, Adapted (1848)

Domestic

• Home Labor Saving Devices (1918)
• What I know; or, Hints on the daily duties of a housekeeper. Comprising nearly five hundred receipts, for cooking, preserving, pickling, washing, ironing, gardening, plain and fancy needle-work, putting up of winter stores, and numerous other receipts useful and needful in every well-regulated household (1856)

Cosmetic

• The toilet of Flora; or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay. For the use of the ladies (1779)

Milling, Metallurgy, Forging, Gearing, Machines

• A practical treatise on testing and working silver ores
• Fire Assaying a Practical Treatise on the Fire Assaying of Gold, Silver and Lead, Including (1907)
• Hardening, tempering, annealing and forging of steel; a treatise on the practical treatment and working of high and low grade steel .. (1903)
• Leaching Gold and Silver Ores The Plattner and Kiss Processes A Practical Treatise (1881)
• Milling machines and milling practice (1910).pdf
• Pattern Making A Practical Treatise Embracing the Main Types of Engineering Construction… Together with the Methods of Estimating the Weight of Castings; to which is Added an Appendix of Tables for Workshop Reference 1885
• Practical treatise on gearing (1902).pdf
• Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines (1914)
• Production milling; a treatise dealing with the methods employed in progressive American machine shops for obtaining quantity production on various types of milling machines (1921)
• Rogers Machinists Guide A Practical Illustrated Treatise on Modern Machine 1913
• Stamp Milling A Treatise on Practical Stamp Milling and Stamp Mill Construction (1912)
• The Advanced Machinist A Practical and Educational Treatise, with Illustrations (1903)
• The production of malleable castings a practical treatise on the processes involved in the manufacture of malleable cast iron (c1910)
• Galvanizing and tinning a practical treatise on coating with tin and zinc, with a special chapter on tinning gray iron castings (1900)
• Hardening, tempering, annealing and forging of steel a treatise on the practical treatment and working of high and low grade steel (1903)
• A Manual of Metallurgy, Or Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of the Metals (1859)
• A practical treatise on mill-gearing (1877)
• A treatise on milling and milling machines (c1916)
• A treatise on the construction and use of milling machines made by Brown & Sharpe mfg. co., Providence, R.I., U.S.A., manufacturers of machinery and tools (1896)
• Five hundred and seven mechanical movements … (1908)
• Mechanical movements, powers, devices, and appliances : comprising an illustrated description of mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts … (1903)
• Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author’s book entitled “Mechanical movements, powers and devices” … including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1910)
  
• Velocity diagrams. Their construction and their uses. Intended for all who are interested in mechanical movements ([c1901])
  
• Mechanisms and mechanical movements; a treatise on different types of mechanisms and various methods of transmitting, controlling and modifying motion, to secure changes of velocity, direction, and duration of time of action ([etc. etc.] 1919 [c1918])

Blacksmithing

• Practical blacksmithing. A collection of articles contributed at different times by skilled workmen to the columns of “The Blacksmith and wheelwright” .. (1888)
  
• Farm blacksmithing a textbook and problem book for students in agricultural schools and colleges, technical schools, and for farmers ([c1921])
• Modern blacksmithing rational horse shoeing and wagon making, with rules, tables, recipes, etc (1904)
• The mechanician, a treatise on the construction and manipulation of tools, for the use and instruction of young engineers and scientific amateurs; comprising the arts of blacksmithing and forging; the construction and manufacture of hand tools, and the various methods of using and grinding them; description of hand and machine processes; turning and screw cutting; and the various details of setting out work incidental to the mechanical engineer’s and machinist’s art (1879)

Machinery Mechanical

• Mechanical Draft A Practical Treatise (1898)
• Principles and construction of machinery a practical treatise on the laws of the transmission of power, and of the strength and proportions of the various elements of prime movers, mill-work, and machinery generally (1869)
• A practical treatise on mechanical engineering (1881)
• A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive (1815)
• An elementary treatise on mensuration and practical geometry together with numerous problems of practical importance in mechanics (1890)

Gen Manufacturing, Craft, etc.

• Glues and gelatine a practical treatise on the methods of testing and use 1907
• Treatise on Clock and Watch Making 1832
• A rudimentary treatise on clock and watch making; with a chapter on church clocks; and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster Clock (1850)
• A general treatise on the manufacture of soap, theoretical and practical comprising the chemistry of the art, a description of all the raw materials and their uses, with an appendix (1869)
• A practical treatise on the manufacture of perfumery; comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics(1892)
• A Practical Treatise on Friction, Lubrication, Fats and Oils (191)
• A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap and Candles (1888)
• A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Starch, Glucose, Starch-sugar (1881)

Materials, Properties, Strengths

• A Practical Treatise on the Strength and Stiffness of Timber, Intended as a Guide for Engineers … (1833)
• A Practical Treatise on the Strength of Material Including Their Elasticity and Resistance(1883)

Masonry, Concrete, Brickwork, Terra-cotta, Etc

• Practical Treatise on Concrete and how to Make it With Observations (1869)
• Brickwork, a practical treatise embodying the general and higher principles of bricklaying, cutting and setting … and a series of problems in applied geometry (1891)
• Concrete and reinforced concrete; a condensed practical treatise on the problems of concrete construction, including cement mixture, tests, beam and slab design, construction work, retaining walls, etc. (1916)
• A practical treatise on the construction of tall chimney shafts(1885)
• Cupola furnace; a practical treatise on the construction and management of foundry cupolas (1899)
• A popular and practical treatise on masonry and stone-cutting (1828)
• A practical treatise on foundations, explaining fully the principles involved(1907)
• A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra-cotta, Etc (1884)
• Making a fireplace (1913)

Roads, Pavements etc.

• A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads (1844)
• A Practical Treatise on Roads, Streets, and Pavements (1876)

Bookbinding / Printing

• Cowie’s bookbinder’s manual containing a full description of leather and vellum binding, directions for gilding of paper and book-edges, and numerous valuable recipes for sprinkling, colouring, & marbling(1852)
• The Art of Bookbinding A Practical Treatise (1890)
• Photo-engraving A Practical Treatise on the Production of Printing Blocks by Modern Photographic Methods 1892

Old Tech.

• Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained A Practical Treatise … (1912)
• Storage Battery Engineering A Practical Treatise for Engineers (1910)
• A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope Including the Different Methods of Preparing (1848)
• A new practical treatise on the 3 primitive colours, assumed as a perfect system of rudimental information With some practical rules for reflections and Sir Isaac Newton’s distribution of the colours in the rainbow (1826)
• Coal tar distillation and working up of tar products (1914)

Old Transportation

• A practical treatise on coach-building, historical and descriptive containing full information on the various trades and processes involved, with hints on the proper keeping of carriages(1881)

Cooking & Recipes

• The fireless cook book a manual of the construction and use of appliances for cooking by retained heat with 250 recipes (1913)
• The blue and gold cook book; recipes of quality ([c1912]).pdf
• The Federation cook book; a collection of tested recipes, contributed by the colored women of the State of California ([ca. 1910])
• The progress meatless cook book and valuable recipes and suggestions for cleaning clothing, hats, gloves, house furnishings, walls and woodwork and all kinds of helps for the household ([c1911])
• La cuisine creole a collection of culinary recipes from leading chefs and noted Creole housewives, who have made New Orleans famous for its cuisine (c1885).pdf
• The international cook book; over 3,300 recipes gathered from all over the world, including many never before published in English. With complete ménus of the three meals for every day in the year ([c1906])
• The Laurel health cookery a collection of practical suggestions and recipes for the preparation of non-flesh foods in palatable and attractive ways ([1911]).pdf
• Six hundred receipts, worth their weight in gold : including receipts for cooking, making preserves, perfumery, cordials, ice creams, inks, paints, dyes of all kinds, cider, vinegar, wines, spirits, whiskey, brandy, gin, etc., and how to make imitations of all kinds of liquors : together with valuable gauging tables : the collections, testing, and improvements on the receipts extending over a period of thirty years !
• Mrs. Rorer’s diet for the sick; dietetic treating of diseases of the body, what to eat and what to avoid in each case, menus and the proper selection and preparation of recipes, together with a physicians’ ready reference list ([c1914])
• Practical cooking and dinner giving a treatise containing practical instructions in cooking; in the combination and serving of dishes; and in the fashionable modes of entertaining at breakfast, lunch, and dinner (1887)
• Practical flavoring extract maker, a treatise on the manufacture of the principal flavoring extracts, in accordance with the reqiurements of the food laws of the United States (1912).pdf
• Warnes every-day cookery : containing one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight distinct receipts (1872)
• 300 culinary receipts (1892) 100 ways of cooking eggs, 100 ways of cooking fish, 100 desserts
• One hundred mushroom receipts (1899)
• New receipts for cooking ([c1854])
• The Muskegon cook book of tested receipts, (total abstinence) (1890)
• “Aunt Babette’s” cook book: foreign and domestic receipts for the household (1889)
• The National Cookbook(1866)
• Colonial receipt book: celebrated old receipts used a century ago by Mrs. Goodfellow’s cooking school (1907)
• The universal cook book; a collection of tried and tested home receipts (1909)
• Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South (1908)
• The Mendelssohn club cook book. This book contains 1394 valuable receipts with instructions for cooking and serving them, also menus for social functions (1909)
• What to do with the cold mutton : a book of réchauffés. Together with many other approved receipts for the kitchen of a gentleman of moderate income (1865)
  
• The cook’s own book : being a complete culinary encyclopedia comprehending all valuable receipts for cooking meat, fish, and fowl : and composing every kind of soup, gravy, pastry, preserves, essences, &c. that have been published or invented during the last twenty years : particularly the very best of those in the Cook’s oracle, Cook’s dicitionary, and other systems of domestic economy : with numerous original receipts and a complete system of confectionery (1832)
• The family save-all. : Supplying excellent dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea, from cold fragments, as well as a large number of new receipts for cooking and preparing all kinds of soups, fish, oysters, terrapins, lobsters, meats, poultry, game, tea cakes, jellies, rolls, preserves, pies, puddings, dessert, cakes, pickles, sauces, etc. With miscellaneous receipts and invaluable hints for economy in every article of household use. (1867)
• Apicius redivivus : or, The cook’s oracle: wherein especially the art of composing soups, sauces, and flavouring essences is made so clear and easy … being six hundred receipts, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure .. (1817)

Food Preservation

• Recipes for the preserving of fruit, vegetables, and meat (1908)
• A practical treatise on the manufacture of vinegar, with special consideration of wood vinegar and other by-products obtained in the destructive distillation of wood; the preparation of acetates. Manufacture of cider and fruit-wines; preservation of fruits and vegetables by canning and evaporation; preparation of fruit-butters, jellies, marmalades, pickles, mustards, etc. Preservation of meat, fish and eggs (1914)
• Secrets of meat curing and sausage making : how to cure hams, shoulders, bacon, corned beef, etc., and how to make all kinds of sausage, etc., and comply with all pure food laws (1922)
• The hog; a treatise on the breeds, management, feeding, and medical treatment of swine; with directions for salting pork and curing bacon and hams (1855)
• Philosophical experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea. Shewing how sea-water may be made fresh and wholsome: and how fresh water may be preserv’d sweet. How biscuit, corn, &c. may be secured from the weevel, meggots, and other insects. And flesh preserv’d in hot climates, by salting animals whole. To which is added, an account of several experiments and observations on chalybeate or steel-waters … which were read before the Royal-society, at several of their meetings (1739)
• The London art of cookery and domestic housekeepers’ complete assistant : uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and economy : and adapted to the use of servants, and families of every description Containing every elegant and plain preparation in improved modern cookery — Pickling, potting, salting, collaring, and sousing — The whole art of confectionary, and making of jellies, jams, and creams, and ices — The preparation of sugars, candying, and preserving — Made wines, cordial-waters, and malt-liquors — Bills of fare for each month — Wood-cuts, illustrative of trussing, carving, &c (1811)

Dairy

• Essentials of milk hygiene, a practical treatise on dairy and milk inspection and on the hygiene production and hndling of milk, for students of dairying and sanitarians (1907).pdf
• American dairying a practical treatise on dairy farming and the management of creameries
• Testing milk and its products; a manual for dairy students, creamery and cheese factory operators, food chemists and dairy farmers (1904)
• The chemistry of dairying; an outline of the chemical and allied changes which take place in milk, and in the manufacture of butter and cheese; and the rational feeding of dairy stock (1897)

Butter

• Practical buttermaking a treatise for buttermakers and students Fourth Revision -1919.pdf
• Butter-making on the farm (1920).pdf
• Creamery butter-making (1911).pdf
• A.B.C. in butter making : for young creamery butter makers, creamery managers and private dairymen (1910)
• Factors influencing the change in flavor in storage butter (1913)
• How to make creamery butter on the farm (c1915])
• Investigations in the manufacture and storage of butter (1906)
• The book of butter; a text on the nature, manufacture and marketing of the product (1923)

Cheese

• The science and practice of cheese-making a treatise on the manufacture of American Cheddar cheese and other varieties, intended as a text-book for the use of dairy teachers and students in classroom and workroom(1909).pdf
• Cheese making; Cheddar, Swiss, brick, Limburger, Edam, cottage (1905).pdf
• Cheese and cheese-making, butter and milk, with special reference to continental fancy cheeses (1896).pdf
• Fungi in cheese ripening Camembert and Roquefort (1906)
• The bacteriology of cheddar cheese (1912)
• The Cold curing of cheese (1903)
• The science and practice of cheese-making (1909)
• Varieties of cheese descriptions and analyses (1908).pdf
• Investigations in the manufacture and curing of cheese (1907)

New Bread Making section

• The technology of bread-making, including the chemistry and analytical and practical testing of wheat flour, and other materials employed in bread-making and confectionery ([1911?])
• Leavening agents; yeast, leaven, salt-rising fermentation, baking powder, aerated bread, milk powder (1914)
• Bread making and bread baking (1915)
• The theory and art of bread-making. A new process without the use of ferment (1861)
• The Householder’s friend. Being an abstract of an act to provide other regulations for the making and sale of bread, and preventing the adulteration of meal, flour, and bread, within London (1820’s])
• The technology of bread-making, including the chemistry and analytical and practical testing of wheat flour, and other materials employed in bread-making and confectionery ([1911ish])
  

Sweet Tooth

• The complete confectioner, pastry-cook, and baker. Plain and practical directions for making confectionary and pastry, and for baking; with upwards of five hundred receipts: consisting of directions for making all sorts of preserves, sugar-boiling, comfits, lozenges, ornamental cakes, ices, liqueurs, waters, gum-paste ornaments, syrups, jellies, marmalades, compotes, bread-baking, artificial yeasts, fancy biscuits, cakes, rolls, muffins, tarts, pies, &c., &c. With additions and alterations (1846)
• Beet-sugar making and its chemical control (1909)
• Candy-making revolutionized confectionery from vegetables (1912).pdf

Leather, Leatherwork Tans, Hides

• Modern American Tanning A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
• Leather manufacture a treatise on the practical workings of the leather manufacture including oil shoe grain, imitation goat and calf, together with numerous valuable recipes(1890)
• The making of leather (1914)

Shoe Making, Cobblers & Cordwainers

• Home book to learn expert shoe repairing (1916)
• How to bottom a welted shoe by hand (1912)
• The manufacture of boots and shoes : being a modern treatise of all the processes of making and manufacturing footgear (1902)
• Shoe and leather encyclopedia; (1911)
• Shoe making, old and new (1911)
• Designing, cutting and grading boot and shoe patterns, and complete manual for the stitching room, by an expert of thirty years (1899)
• Leather manufacture : a treatise on the practical workings of the leather manufacture : including oil shoe grain, imitation goat and calf …, together with numerous valuable recipes … (1890)

• The following text is mostly a history but has descriptions in the latter portion of the book in regards to shoe manufacture…The boot and shoe-maker’s assistant; (1853)
• Shoes and shoemaking illustrated : a brief sketch of the history and manufacture of shoes from the earliest time (1897)

Eclectic

• Essays and observations on the following subjects, viz On trade … directions for making roads, instructions for making syder, observations on the linen manufactury … (1740)
• Dr. Chase’s recipes, or, Information for everybody : an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes, for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoemakers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovators, farmers, and families generally : to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments (1869)
• The amateur’s handbook of practical information for the workshop and the laboratory : containing clear and full directions for bronzing, lacquering, polishing metal, staining and polishing wood, soldering, brazing, working steel, tempering tools, case-hardening, cutting and working glass, varnishing, silvering, gilding, preparing skins, waterproofing, making alloys, fusible metals, freezing mixtures, polishing powders, signal lights, harmless colored fires for tableaux, catgut, cements, glues, &c., &c (1879)
• Henley’s twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes, containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes and moneymaking methods for the practical use of manufacturers, mechanics, housekeepers and home workers (1914)
• A Cyclopaedia of six thousand pratical receipts (1851)
• Mrs. Hale’s Receipts For The Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred And Forty-Five Receipts, Facts, Directions Etc. In The Useful, Ornamental, And Domestic Arts, And In The Conduct Of Life. Being A Complete Family Directory. Relative To Accomplishments, Economy, Ladies’ Work, Phrenology, Amusements, Etching, Feather Work, Potichomanie, Beauty, Etiquette, Manners, Poultry, Birds, Flowers, Marriage, Riding, Building, Gardening, Medicines, Swimming, Children, Grecian Painting, Needlework, Surgery, Domestic Cookery, Health, Nursing, Temperance, Courtship, Home, Gut-Door Work, Trees, Etc. Dress, Etc. Housekeeping, Painting, Women’s Duties, Words Of Washington, Etc. By Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale.
  
• Encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes. Containing over 6400 receipts; embracing thorough information, in plain language, applicable to almost every possible industrial and domestic requirement ([1872])
  
• Hand Book of Practical Receipts, Or Useful Hints in Every Day Life By American Gentleman(1860)
• Dr Chase’s Recipes, or Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection of About 600 Practical Recipes for Business and Professional Men, Mechanics, Artists, Farmers and for Families Generally 8th Ed. (1860)
• The Southern Gardener and Receipt-Book, Containing Valuable Information, Original and Otherwise, On all subjects Connected with, Domestic and Rual Affairs, Gardening Cookery, Beverages, Dairy, Medical, Veterinary and Miscellaneous 3rd ed. (1860)
• Mackenzie’s Five Thousand Receipts In All The Useful & Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library Relative To Agriculture, Beer, Bleaching, Brewing, Calico Printing, Carving At Table, Cements, Confectionary, Cookery, Crayons, Dairy, Diseases, Distillation, Dying, Enamelling, Engraving, Farriery, Food, Gardening, Gilding, Glare, Health, Inks, &c. Jewellers’ Pastes, Lithography, Medicines, Metallurgy, Oil Colours, Oils, Painting, Pastry, Perfumery, Pickling, Pottery, Preserving, Scouring, Silk, Silk Worms, Silvering, Tanning, Trees Of All Kinds, Varnishing, Water Colours, Wines, &c. &c. &c. (1853)
• A dictionary of every-day wants : containing twenty thousand receipts in nearly every department of human effort including Accidents and Emergencies, Apiary, Carpenter and Builder, Cements, Glues and Pastes, Cooking and Baking, Druggist and Chemist, Domestic Animals, Farm, Orchard, Garden and Dairy, House/told Miscellany, Household Pets, Household Pests, Hunting, Trapping and Tanning. Inks and Blacking, Medical and Surgical, Ornamental Work, Painting and Papering (Including Varnishing, Polishing, Staining, and Gilding,) Photography and the Fine Arts, Preserving and Storing, Soap and Candles, Toilet, Wardrobe, Washing, Bleaching and Dyeing, Wines, Liquors and Vinegar, Workers in Glass, Workers in Metals, & Miscellaneous (1872)[/color]
• The Cabinet-Maker And Upholsterer’s Companion: Comprising The Rudiments And Principles Of Cabinet-Making And Upholstery, With Familiar Instructions, Illustrated By Examples, For Attaining A Proficiency In The Art Of Drawing, As Applicable To Cabinet-Work : The Processes Of Veneering, Inlaying, And Buhl-Work ; The Art Of Dyeing And Staining Wood, Ivory, Bone, Tortoise-Shell, Etc. Directio.Vs For Lackering, Japanning, And Varnishing; To Make French Polish ; To Prepare The Best Glues, Cements, And Compositions ; And A Number Of Receipts, Particularly Useful To Workmen Generally. With Explanatory And Illustrative Engravings, By J. Stokes. (1850)

Beverages & Brewing

• A treatise on beverages, or, The complete practical bottler Full instructions for laboratory work, with original practical recipes for all kinds of carbonated drinks, mineral waters, flavorings, extracts, syrups, etc (c1888)
• A practical treatise on brewing, and on storing of beer reduced from forty years experience (1835)
• A practical treatise on brewing, based on chemical and economical principles with formule (1849)
• A theoretical and practical treatise on malting and brewing (1835)
• Laboratory studies for brewing students, a systematic course of practical work in the scientific principles underlying the processes of malting and brewing (1904)
• The art of brewing by David Booth (1829)
• A Study of Cider Making (1903)

Viticulture

• A practical Treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine
• A practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine on open walls
• The culture of the grape, and wine-making (1855)
• Viticulture and brewing in the ancient Orient (1922)

Woolens, Fabric, Knitting, Needlework, Spinning etc.

• Beeton’s Book Of Needlework. Consisting Of Descriptions And Instructions, Illustrated By Six Undred Engravings, Of Tatting Patterns. Crochet Patterns. Knitting Patterns. Netting Patterns. Embroidery Patterns. Point Lace Patterns. Guipure D’art. Berlin Work. Monograms. Initials And Names. Pillow Lace, And Lace Stitches.
• The American Cotton Spinner and Managers’ and Carders’ Guide A Practical Treatise on Cotton (1852
• The American cotton spinner, and managers’ and carders’ guide a practical treatise on cotton spinning (1867)
• The American woolen manufacturer A practical treatise on the manufacture of woolens (1872)
• A practical treatise on dying woolen, cotton, and silk including recipes for lac reds and scarlets, chrome yellows and oranges, and Prussian blues-on silks, cottons and woolens(1834)
• A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements; also, a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various animal, vegetable, and mineral substances employed in these arts, with an appendix, comprising definitions of chemical terms; with tables of weights, measures, thermometers, hydrometers, [etc.] (1860)
• A practical treatise on dying woolen, cotton, and silk: including recipes for lac reds and scarlets, chrome yellows and oranges, and Prussian blues-on silks, cottons and woolens (1834)
• Cotton spinning its development, principles, and practice (1884)
• The making of a Navajo blanket (1902)
• History and description of needle making (1862)
• The art of modern lace-making (1891)
• Molony’s masterpiece on wool, silk and cotton dyeing : containing his best receipts, without the least reserve, according to his practice in Great Britain and America (1837)

Garden, Agro, Threshing, Orchards

• Science of successful threshing (1907)
• The American wheat culturist : a practical treatise on the culture of wheat, embracing a brief history and botanical description of wheat, with full practical details for selecting seed, producing new varieties, and cultivating on different kinds of soil 1868
• Fruit farming for profit (rev. to 1911) A practical treatise … with detailed instructions for successful commercial culture on the Kent system (1911)
• The potato a practical treatise on the potato, its characteristics, planting, cultivation, harvesting, storing, marketing, insects, and diseases and their remedies, etc, etc (1905)
• The seed grower. A practical treatise on growing vegetable and flower seeds and bulbs for the market (1906)
• Biggle garden book vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit (1912)
• Biggle orchard book fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket (1911)
• Melon culture a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same (1911)
• Biggle berry book a condensed treatise on the culture of berries with leaves from the experience of many practical berry growers in all parts of the United States (1899, c1894)
• The forcing-book a manual of the cultivation of vegetables in glass houses (1906)
• The forcing garden or, How to grow early fruits, flowers and vegetables, with plans and estimates showing the best and most economical way of building glass-houses, pits and frames (1881)
• Making horticulture pay; experiences in gardening and fruit growing (1909)
• A garden of herbs : being a practical handbook to the making of an old English herb garden ; together with numerous receipts from contemporary authorities (1922)

Grasses & Forage Plants

• A Practical Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants Comprising Their Natural History, Comparative (1859)
• Field investigations of forage poisoning in cattle and horses (1918)
• Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture (1907)
• Forage plants and their culture (1914)
• Grasses and forage plants A practical treatise, comprising their natural history comparative nutritive value methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces (1859)

Wild Plants

• Edible Wild Plants (1939)
• Sturtevant’s notes on edible plants (1919)
• Common edible and useful plants of the West

Shrooms

• Mushrooms of America, edible and poisonous ([1885])
• Student’s hand-book of mushrooms of America edible and poisonous (1897)
  
• Toadstools, mushrooms, Fungi, edible and poisonous 1000 American Fungi how to select and cook the edible how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions ([c1912])
• Mushrooms for the million A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Most Profitable Outdoor Crop Known (1883)
• Mushrooms how to Grow Them A Practical Treatise on Mushroom Culture for Profit and Pleasure (1901)

Navigation and Maps

• Instructions for making forest surveys and maps (1912)
• A complete treatise on practical land-surveying (1870)
• An Elementary, Practical and Theoretical Treatise on Navigation 1843
• Navigation (1917)
• Small boat navigation (c1917, t.p. 1944)

Glass

• Fifty years of glass making 1869-1919 (1920)
• Elements of glass and glass making (1899)

Mercantile

• Whom to trust a practical treatise on mercantile credits (1890)
• Making More Money in Storekeeping (1917)
• Making the small shop profitable (1918)

Misc.

• Paint making and color grinding a practical treatise for paint manufacturers and factory managers, including comprehensive information regarding factory arrangement pigments vehiches and thinners liquid and cold water paints as well as practical working formulas and recipes(1913)
• Saw filing and management of saws; a practical treatise on filing, gumming, swaging, hammering, and brazing band saws, etc (1912)
• Stock-breeding a practical treatise on the applications of the laws of development and heredity to the improvement and breeding of domestic animals (1879)
• A practical treatise on the steel square and its application to everyday use; being an exhaustive collection of steel square problems and solutions, “old and new,” with many original and useful additions.. (1903)
• The Ranidae how to breed, feed and raise the edible frog ([c1905])
• Making fences, walls and hedges (1914)
• Practical basket making (1914)

Workshop Receipts

• Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 1
• Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 3
• Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 4
• Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 5

Archaic Doomers

• Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers (1839)

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