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Title: Travels during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789. Undertaken...with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth...of the Kingdom of France
Author: Young, Arthur
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Bound in contemporary three quarters calf, red leather labels
Description: Bury St. Edmund's: J. Rackham for W. Richardson, 1794. Second Edition. 3 folding engraved maps, one hand-colored. [i]-viii, [1]-629, [3]; ([ii], [1]-336, [4]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in contemporary three quarters calf, red leather labels. Second Edition. 3 folding engraved maps, one hand-colored. [i]-viii, [1]-629, [3]; ([ii], [1]-336, [4]pp. 1 vols. 4to. This second edition of Young's Travels is widely considered the best contemporary account of France just before the Revolution. The second volume has almost completely new material from the first edition. Goldsmiths' 15937; Kress B.2872; ESTC T78081

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Title: Choice Receipts and Specimen Pages from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen
Author: Parloa, [Maria]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1881. Small octavo, 32 unnumbered pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. Includes a page of press notices. Sample book with specimen pages for the author’s New Cook Book. Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book was written during the time she was lecturing at the newly established Boston Cooking School, funded in 1879 by the Women’s Education Association. not long after the book was published, she left Boston for New York, where she established Miss Parloa’s School of Cooking. While the Boston Cooking School had not been financially successful, her new school in New York made her a wealthy woman and launched her on a path to celebrity status, eventually to include numerous product endorsements. Corners a bit bumped and worn, otherwise very good, in printed gray wrappers. [OCLC locates four copies].

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Title: The Ills of Indigestion, Their Causes and Their Cures, In Three Essays
Author: Partsch, Herman
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: North Berkeley, California: Cumbernauld Co., Publishers, 1896. Sextodecimo, 338 pages. FIRST EDITION. A notable contribution toward understanding the relationship between nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract, well before advances made during and after World War I in electrogastography and in managing bacterial pathogens. Having established a reputation for the treatment of seasickness, Dr. Herman Partsch (1849-1934), a physician in San Francisco, turned next to summarizing what he had encountered in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal distresses. "In writing this book my object has been to put on record certain facts that I have learned during the last twenty-five years on topics comprehended under the title of dyspepsia [...]" (--preface, page v). Includes observations showing the emergence of an appreciation for correlating data from other systems (heart, respiration) and gives weight to evidence from the letters and diaries of Darwin and Carlyle. A few pencil notes to margin; one pencil note to rear end papers, otherwise very good. In clean and bright publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth. [OCLC locates fourteen copies].