BARNUM, H. L.

Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife

Item #73256

BARNUM, H. L. Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, Containing a Great Variety of Valuable Recipes, Relating to Agriculture, Gardening, Brewery, Cookery, Dairy, Confectionary, Diseases, Farriery, Ingrafting, and the Various Branches of Rural and Domestic Economy. To Which Is Added a Plain, Concise, Method of Keeping Farmer's Accounts, with Forms of Notes of Hand, Bills, Receipts; &c. &c. Cincinnati: A.B. Roff, 1831. 1st ed. 398pp. Frontis., illus. Contemporary calf, , elaborate gilt spine. Free endpapers removed, lacks final leaf of text, light scattered foxing, else a very good copy. Barnum was editor of the "United States Agriculturist and Farmer's Reporter," the earliest western farm journal (1831-1833). Bitting p. 28. Lowenstein 141. Cagle & Stafford 61.

Price: $150.00