The jewel house of art and nature containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry

Dictionaire oeconomique, or, The family dictionary containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health
von: Chomel, Noël 1632-1712
Veröffentlicht: (1725)

A thousand notable things of sundrie sorts vvhereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious
von: Lupton, Thomas
Veröffentlicht: (1631)

The laboratory, or school of arts: in which are faithfully exhibited and fully explain'd, I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, Calcming, Melting, Assaying, Casting, Allaying, and Toughening of Gold: With several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. II. Choice Secrets for Jewellers in the Management of Gold in Enameling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of copying Precious Stones; of preparing Colours for Doublets; of colouring Foyles for Jewels, together with other rare Secrets. III. Several uncommon Experiments for Casting in Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Steel, and other Metals; likewise in Wax, Plaister of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. With the Management of the respective Moulds. IV. The Art of making Glass: Exhibiting withal the Art of Painting and making Impressions upon Glass: and of laying thereon Gold or Silver; together with the Method of preparing the Colours for Patters-Work, or Delft-Ware. V. A Collection of very valuable Secrets for the Use of Curlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joiners, Turners, Japanners, Book-Binders, Distillers, Lapidaries, Limners, &c. VI. A dissertation on the nature and growth of saltpetre Also, several other choice and uncommon Experiments. The second edition. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is added an appendix Teaching I. The Art and Management of Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cottons, &c. in various Colours. II. The Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire globes, Stars, Sparks, &c. for Recreative Fire works. Translated from the High Dutch
von: Smith, Godfrey 18th cent
Veröffentlicht: (1740)

Närrische Weissheit und weise Narrheit, oder, Ein hundert so politische als physicalische, mechanische, und mercantilische Concepten und Propositionen deren etliche gut gethan, etliche zu nichts worden
von: Becher, Johann Joachim 1635-1682
Veröffentlicht: (1706)

Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades: or approved directions, from the best artists for the Various Methods Of engraving on Brass, Copper, or Steel. Of the Composition of Metals. -of Varnishes. Of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing-Wax. &c. &c. Of the Glass Manufactory. Various Imitations of Precious Stones, and French Paste. Of Colours and Painting, useful for Carriage Painters. Of Painting on Paper. Of Compositions for Limners. Of transparent Colours. Colours to dye Skins or Gloves. To colour or varnish Copper-Plate Prints. Of Painting on Glass. Of Colours of all Sorts, for Oil, Water, and Crayons. Of preparing the Lapis Lazuli, to make Ultramarine. Of the Art of Gilding. The Art of dying Woods, Bones, &c. The Art of Casting in Moulds. Of making useful Sorts of Ink. The Art of making Wines. Of the Composition of Vinegars. Of Liquors, Essential Oils, &c. Of the Consectionary Business. The Art of preparing Snuffs. Of taking out Spots and Stains. Art of Fishing, Angling, Bird-Catching, &c. And Subjects curious, entertaining, and useful. Containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades
Veröffentlicht: (1775)

A thousand notable things of sundrie sortes vvhereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious
von: Lupton, Thomas
Veröffentlicht: (1627)

A thousand notable things of sundrie sorts Whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many verie precious
von: Lupton, Thomas
Veröffentlicht: (1601)

The way to get wealth, or, An easie way to make wine also to make cyder, mead, rum ... the true art of distilling of brandy ... to make pickles and divers sorts of vinegars ... to help a bad memory ... the duty of all sorts of servant maids ... to make China varnish ... a help to discourse
von: Lupton, Thomas
Veröffentlicht: (1702)

A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets Most necessary, pleasant, and profitable for all sorts of people
von: Dickinson, Francisco
Veröffentlicht: (1649)

Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters
von: Platt, Hugh 1552-1611
Veröffentlicht: (1603)

Delights for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories; with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters. Reade, practise, and censure
von: Platt, Hugh 1552-1611
Veröffentlicht: (1628)

Abstract of receipts and payments in the Treasury-Office, Dublin, in two years from Lady-day 1745 to Lady-day 1747
Veröffentlicht: (1748)

The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. By Hannah Wolley
von: Woolley, Hannah
Veröffentlicht: (1670)

La maison reglée et l'art de diriger la maison d'un grand seigneur & autres tant à la ville qu'à la campagne
von: Audiger, ..
Veröffentlicht: (1700)

The queen-like closet: or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. To which is added, A supplement, presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen. By Hannah Woolley
von: Woolley, Hannah
Veröffentlicht: (1684)

The marrow of chymical physick, or, The practice of making chymical medicines divided in three books, viz. shewing the true and perfect order to distil, or draw forth from vegetables, minerals and metals, their spirits, oyls, vinegars ... &c.
von: Thrasher, William ca. 17. Jh
Veröffentlicht: (1679)

The house-keeper's pocket-book; and compleat family cook Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts, in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten. &c. and directions for ranging them in their proper order. To which is prefix'd, such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year, that no person need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. With directions for making and breeding poultry to advantage. Concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of devonshire
von: Harrison, Sarah fl. 1733-1777
Veröffentlicht: (1748)

The gentlewomans cabinet unlocked Wherein is contained many excellent receipts for neat dressing of divers sorts of meats; as flesh and fish, with their proper sauces. Also directions for the best way of making pancakes, fritters, tansies, puddings, custards, cheesecakes. And such like fine knacks. And other delicate dishes, which are most frequently used in gentlemens houses
Veröffentlicht: (1686)

The young ladies school of arts Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, Shell-Work, Gilding, Painting, Cosmetics, Jellies, Preserves, Cakes, Cordials, Creams, Jamms, Pickles, Candying, Made Wines, Clear Starching, &c together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs. Hannah Robertson
von: Robertson, Hannah 1724-1800?
Veröffentlicht: (1784)

Art's treasury of rareties and curious inventions in two parts, Part I containing the mystery of dying cloths, silks, stuffs ... tanning leather, &c.
von: White, John
Veröffentlicht: (1690)

The housekeeper's instructor or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches. Containing Proper Directions for Dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, The Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes, With The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The Making and Keeping in Perfection British Wines; And Proper Rules For Brewing Malt Liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitauts. To Which IS Added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated With Engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, Bills Of Fare For Every Month In The Year; With Copper-Plates displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together With Directions For Marketing, And The Management Of the Kitchen And Fruit-Garden. The Whole formed on so New a Plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. The sixth edition. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years
von: Henderson, William Augustus
Veröffentlicht: (1800)

The gentleman's companion and Tradesman's Delight. Containing, the mystery of dying in all its branches. The manner of preparing colours. The Method of cleaning and taking out Stains from Silks, Woollen, or Linnen. To clean Gold or Silver Lace, and Plate. To prepare a Cement for China, or Glass. The art of drawing, Limning, Painting, Etching, Engraving, Carving, Gilding, Enamelling, and Refreshing Pictures. Likewise the quality of natural and artificial metals. How to harden or soften them. The Art of soldering, burnishing, and gilding Metals. To make all Sorts of Ink To prepare Gold and Silver for Writing. To make Sealing-Wax, or Wafers. To know the Purity of Gold or Silver, and detect counterfeit Coins. The great Mr. Boyle's method of writing in such a manner as cannot be discovered without the help of fire, water, &c. To take Blots out of Paper. The Art of dressing, cleaning, and perfuming Gloves and Ribbons; and washing all Sorts of Lace. Also the method of curing and preserving English wines in the best Manner. And some excellent Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery. With many other useful Things never before printed
Veröffentlicht: (1735)

The young ladies school of arts Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers filligree japanning shell-work gilding painting cosmetics jellies preserves cakes cordials creams jamms pickles canding made wines clear starching, &c. Also, a great many curious receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs Hannah Robertson
von: Robertson, Hannah 1724-1800?
Veröffentlicht: (1770)

The house-Keeper's pocket-book and compleat family cook: containing about twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. With Plain and easy Instruction for Preparing and Dressing every Thing suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, from Two Dishes to Five or Ten, &c. and Directions for ranging them in their proper Order. Also a copious and useful Bill of Fare, of all Manner of Provisions in Season, for every Month in the Year; so that no Person need be at a Loss to provide an agreeable Variety, at a moderate Expence. Together with Directions for making all Sorts of Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub, &c. and Distilling Strong-Waters, &c. after the most approved Methods: For Brewing Ale and Small-Beer in a cleanly, frugal Manner: And for Managing and Breeding Poultry to Advantage. Likewise several useful Family Receipts for taking out Stains, preserving Furniture, cleaning Plate, taking Iron-Moulds out of Linen, &c. As also easy Tables, of Sums ready cast up, from one Farthing to one Pound, for the Use of those not conversant in Arithmetic: And Tables shewing the Interest of Money from 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5 per Cent, from one Day to a Year. The Whole is so contrived as to contain as much as any Book of double the Price; and the Excellency of the Receipts renders it the most useful Book of the Kind. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire. The eighth edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts, by very good Judges of the separate Articles, particularly to dress Turtle, &c. Also, Every one their ow physician: A Collection of the most approved Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders incident to Human Bodies. Carefully compiled by Mary Morris
von: Harrison, Sarah fl. 1733-1777
Veröffentlicht: (1764)

The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster
Veröffentlicht: (1694)

The house-keeper's pocket-book and compleat family cook: containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts ... By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, ... The seventh edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts, ... Also, Every one their own physician: ... compiled by Mary Morris
von: Harrison, Sarah fl. 1733-1777
Veröffentlicht: (1760)

The house-Keeper's pocket-book and compleat family cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts, in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &c. With plain and easy Instructions for preparing, and dressing every Thing suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, from Two Dishes to Five or Ten, &c. And Directions for ranging them in their proper Order. To which is prefix'd, Such a copious and useful Bill of Fare of all manner of Provisions in Season for every Month of the Year, that no Person need be at a Loss to provide an agreeable Variety of Dishes, at a moderate Expence. With Directions for making all Sorts of Wines, Mead, Cyder, Shrub, &c. and distilling Strong-Waters, &c. after the most approved Method. And Directions for managing and breeding Poultry to Advantage. Concluding with many excellent Prescriptions, of singular Efficacy in most Distempers incident to the Human Body; extracted from the Writings of the most eminent Physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire
von: Harrison, Sarah fl. 1733-1777
Veröffentlicht: (1751)

Curiosa arcana: being curious secrets, artificial and natural In three parts. Containing, in the first part, Choice receipts to prevent or cure the plague, agues, fevers, and all other distempers incident to man. Secrets in Japanning, painting, and varnishing, so as to imitate marble, Jasper-Stone, &c. To dye skins a sine black that never fades. Secrets in hunting, fishing, fowling, house-keeping. To cure diseases in horses, hogs, dogs, &c. To destroy all sorts of vermin in house or field. Directions to beautifie the face, and cure diseases in women and children. To make perfumes, cordial waters, snuffs, to preserve wine, with other secrets of that nature. To order gardens for fruit, flowers, &c. To make artificial pearl and jewels; also fire-works. Receipts in cookery, and to make Sweetmeats, &c. To take spots or stains out of linnen or woollen. To make divers forts of ink. In the second part, the art of moulding, and casting medals in lead, tin, silver, copper, plaister of Paris, wax, or otherwise, as well hollow as solid. In the third part, excellent secrets for beautifying and rendering the face lively and agreeable. With several choice and approved secrets for beautifying the body, in several particulars. Try'd and approv'd by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French King. From the last edition in French; which contains near as much more as any other ormer edition. To which is added, a supplement of divers curiosities by the translator. The whole illustrated with copper plates, adapted to the several subjects
Veröffentlicht: (1711)

The young ladies school of arts Containing, a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers filligree japanning Shell-Work Gilding Painting Cosmetics Jellies Preserves Cakes Cordials Creams Jamms Pickles Candying Made Wines Clear Starching, &c. Also, a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs Hannah Robertson
von: Robertson, Hannah 1724-1800?
Veröffentlicht: (1767)

A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. By John White a lover of artificial conclusions
von: White, John
Veröffentlicht: (1689)

Expedients for alleviating the distress occasioned by the present dearness of corn (as published in the Northampton Mercury of November 28, 1757) intended principally for those, who endeavour to conceal their wants; and for such benevolent persons as would give away, or recommend, a cheap provision
von: Stonhouse, James Sir 1716-1795
Veröffentlicht: (1757)

Mrs. Johnston's receipts for all sorts of pastry, creams, puddings, custards, preserves, marmalets, conserves, geillies, syrops, wines, wet and dry confections, biskets, sauces, pickles, and cookery, after the newest and most approved method
von: Johnston Mrs
Veröffentlicht: (1740)

The complete distiller containing, I. The method of performing the various processes of distillation, with Descriptions of the several Instruments: The whole Doctrine of Fermentation: The manner of drawing Spirits from Malt, Raisins, Molosses, Sugar, &c. and of rectifying them: With Instructions for imitating to the greatest Perfection both the Colour and Flavour of French Brandies. II. The manner of distilling all Kinds of Simple Waters from Plants, Flowers, &c. III. The method of making all the compound waters and rich cordials so largely imported from France and Italy; as likewise all those now made in Great Britain. To which are added, accurate descriptions of the several drugs, plants, Flowers, Fruits, &c. used by distillers, and Instructions for chusing the best of each Kind. The Whole delivered in the plainest manner, for the Use both of Distillers and Private Families. By A. Cooper, distiller
von: Cooper, Ambrose
Veröffentlicht: (1757)

The compleat housewife or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And Also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, a collection of above three hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Mrs. Stephens's Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons were disordered, and the salt Water fail'd; never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentle-Women as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith
von: Smith, Eliza d. ca. 1732
Veröffentlicht: (1750)

The treasurie of hidden secrets: commonly called, The good-huswiues closet of prouision for the health of her houshold. Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly enlarged, with diuers necessary physicke helpes, and knowledge of the names and naturall disposition of diseases that most commonly happen to men and women
von: Partridge, John
Veröffentlicht: (1627)

The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery, together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them
von: Woolley, Hannah
Veröffentlicht: (1684)