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Record Nr.

UNISA996390116903316

Autore

Salmon William <1644-1713.>

Titolo

The family dictionary; or, Houshold companion [[electronic resource] ] : containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &c. Seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of pastry ware, and things made of meal, flower, whether bak'd, boyled, or fried, &c. III. Making of conserves, candies, preserves, confects, lozenges, gellies, creams, pickles, &c. IV. The making all kinds of potable liquors, as ales, meads, metheglin, English wines of cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c. Cyder, cyder-royal, usquebaugh, cordial waters. V. The making of all sorts of rare perfumes, sweet balls, pouders, admirable washes, beatifying waters, oils, essences, pomatums. VI. The virtues and uses of the most usual herbs and plants, their roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, used in physick. ... The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the corner of Bride-lane, in Fleet-street : and sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1696

Descrizione fisica

[8], 393, [7] p

Soggetti

Medicine, Popular

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The first edition title page reads: "By J. H.", apparently a pseudonym for William Salmon, whose name appears on all subsequent editions (cf. Wing; DNB).

With errata and seven final advertisement pages.

Copy has some print show-through.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018