This book is Great! 1st edition very rare in this condition!

1892 THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA OF RECEIPTS, NOTE AND QUERIES, 1st edition.
Edited by Albert A. Hopkins. Munn & Co. Publishers, New York. 9 x 6 cloth hardcover with gilt titles. Illustrated. 675 pages.
Old Victorian Recipes Book
FIREWORKS Metals SOAP Candle DYE Perfume ALCOHOL Wine 1892 ~ 1000'S OF OLD-TIME RECIPES, PROCESSES, FORMULAS THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA OF RECEIPTS is one of the largest collections of 19th-century chemical formulations- recipes and processes for commercial and personal use you are ever likely to find. There are literally thousands of individual receipts and procedures documented in this book- many of them culled from 19th-century issues of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States.

According to the editors, This source of useful information, widely scattered and unclassified, has now been carefully brought together, digested and condensed. In addition, laborious researches have been made among the difficult and inaccessible mysteries known as trade secrets. Although this book is 127 years old, the information it contains will no doubt prove quite valuable to artisans- craftspeople, tradesmen and other professionals of today.
Makers of perfume and soap candle-makers those interested in dyeing fabrics- skins and feathers beer brewers and makers of wines and liquors those seeking antique methods of taking and developing photographs enameling- coloring glass and porcelain- paints, glazes and varnishes- jewelry-making- metal plating and other forms of metallurgy- how to make fireworks and pyrotechnic displays- even old-time recipes for making ice cream!

Chances are, if you like experimenting, inventing, or just doing things the old-fashioned way- this book is for you.

You will find extensive sections on: Pyrotechnics * Photography * Electro-Metallurgy * Alloys * Soap-Making * Candle-Making * Perfumery * Cosmetics * How to Make Beers, Wines and Other Liquors * Blacking * Bleaching * Cements * Cleansing * Dyeing * Enamels * Essences * Extracts * Fire-Proofing * Glass * Glues * Graining * Hair * Inks * Lacquering * Lightning Rods * Lubricants * Microscopy * Oils * Paints * Paper * Pastes * Pigments * Poisons and their Antidotes * Polishing * Preserving * Rubber * Solders * Staining * Syrups * Varnishes * Vinegar's * Waters * Water-proofing * Waxes * Wine-Making * Wood. There are probably 10,000 – maybe 20,000 -- or more different receipts in this one volume, arranged alphabetically.

GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo with slight wear at corners and spine ends, also a small ding on the spine at the U in Queries.

Firmly bound. Text is clean and complete. No torn, lose or missing pages. Has a former owner's ink stamp on title page. Great example of this scarce 1892 book of Victorian receipts and processes.