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Scientific and Reliable Coloring and Cleansing Book.
...For family use. Containing 240 reliable instructions for coloring and cleansing silks, woolens, cottons, and feathers of all descriptions and colors. And bleaching lace or plain curtains. Printed wraps, 12mo, 200pp. About Very Good with light soil; fragile wraps chipping at the edges, including 1/2"...
Be Your Own House Plant Expert
Second edition. Stiff card wraps. 34pp. Large 8vo, printed in color. Very Good with abrasion to cover (probably sticker removal), otherwise crisp and clean.
Draughtsmanship Vol. 1 (Reference Library of the Bennnett College)
edited by the Professional Staff of the Bennett College For The Use of Students Large 8vo, 10 x 7.5 inches, 241pp. Plain brown cloth, Very Good condition with light general soil. Copiously illustrated, including one folding plate.
Jordan Marsh & Co. No. 25
Ribbon-bound textile sample book in flexible blue cloth with gilt stamped titles, 6.25 x 10.25 inches. Likely ca. 1890-1910, but the lack of publication information, other examples, and overall longevity of Jordan Marsh & Co. difficult to reliably speculate. 8 double-leaves of numbered patterns eith the...
A Comprehensive Handbook on Uses and Applications of the Drill Press
Containing over 100 photographic illustrations and line drawings. Softcover 8vo, 70pp. Blue textured wraps, Near Fine with minor incidental wear.
The South Kensington Drawing-Book... Freehand - First Grade, Book VI.
"Under the Sanction of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education." No date, ca. 1880s. Sticker over the Blackie and Son imprint on the cover. Wraps, 8vo, [16] pages. 8 examples of common objects and items from the South Kensington Musuem, presented in...
Willa Helwig's handmade portfolio of crafts and leadership notes for her training to be a Guardian in the Camp Fire Girls (with her certificate)
Hardcover handmade album, 8.75 x 11 inches. Paper-covered boards, bound with a braided cord. 39 recto-only butcher paper leaves (2 blank). Bound in patterned paper (with instructions for making the pattern within the content. Edgwear including short closed tears at the top and bottom of...
I.C.S. Reference Library 106: Dress Goods, White Goods, Clothing
Half pebbled leather with cloth boards; 8vo, multiple paginations. Impeccably illustrated with instructive photographs for manipulating fabric that look like magic tricks. Very Good with rubbing and a chip at the spine head; a few instances of mild foxing. The notoriously crumbly leather has light...
Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden
Revised from the 1874 edition to include updated information on progress in varieties, changes in labor and tools, etc. Very handsome gilt cover vignette of a cabbage (!) and blind stamped boards. About Near Fine with mild rubbing to extremities, binding tight and firm. Choice...
Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes
Green cloth 12mo; 476 (4)pp. Very Good+ with minor rubbing and soil to exterior, small abrasion at the front joint; internally crisp and clean.Sewell (1815-1906) was known for writing morally engaged fiction for young women and became an educator to her own siblings, ultimately establishing...