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• Le nouveau recueil de curiositez rares & nouvelles des plus admirables effets de la nature & de l'art : composé de quantité de beaux secrets gallans & autres ; dont quelques-uns ont été tirez du cabinet de feu Monsieur le Marquis de l'Hôpital : ouvrage tres-utile et nécessaire à toutes sortes de personnes, pour la conservation de leur vie (À Leide : Chez Pierre Vander Aa, marchand libraire, 1685., 1685), by Nicolas Lémery and Pieter van der Aa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erfindungen (s.n.], 1786), by Kaspar Schöntaube and Gustav Bergmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way to get wealth : I. Directing how to make 23 sorts of English wine, equal to French, and cyder equal to canary ... : II. A help to discourse, giving an account of the commodities of all countries ... : III. A book of knowledge for all persons ... (Printed for G. Conyers ..., 1706), by Thomas Lupton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vade mecum, or The necessary companion Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland's Perpetual almanack, in copper plates, with many useful tables proper thereto. 2. Christian and regal years compar'd from the Norman conquest. 3. The reduction of weights, measures. 4. The ready casting up any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, shillings, nobles, marks, and guinneys. 5. The interest, and rebate of money, the forebearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities. 6. The rates of post-letters, both inland and outland, with the post-stages. 7. The usual and authorized rates or fares for coach-men, carr-men, and water-men. (London : printed by A.G. and J.P. and are to be sold by T. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1680), by John Playford, Samuel Morland, and John Mayne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Natural and artificial conclusions, both pleasant and profitable. (London : printed for John Harris, at the Harrow against the church in the Poultry, 1688), by R. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Arts treasury: or, A profitable and pleasing invitation to the lovers of ingenuity Contained in many extraordinary experiments, rareties, and curious inventions. In two parts. Part I. Containing the mystery of dying cloths, silks stuffs, hair, feather, bone, horn, ivory, leather, &c. ... Part II. Containing the quality, generation and product of metals and minerals, natural and artificial; directions to harden or soften them for use. ... (London : printed for W. Whitwood, next the Bible in Duck Lane; and Mrs. Feltham in Westminster-Hall, 1688), by John White (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The purchasers pattern In two parts, containing. I. The true value of any purchase of land or houses by lease or otherwise: also, a moderate discourse of usury. With many observations, and tables of intrest and rebatement. II. The true measuring of land, board, timber, and gauging of cask: and discovering the false rules and deceits which are used by many therein. With many other rules and tables of daily use for most men. The second edition corrected and enlarged. By Hen. Philippes. (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for T. Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, 1654), by Henry Phillippes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The golden cabinet : being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts : containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant : and will afford both profit and delight. (Printed and sold by William Spotswood, and H. and P. Rice, Market-Street, 1793), by William Spotswood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cabinet : being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts : containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant, and will afford both profit and delight. (Printed and sold by William Spotswood and H. & P. Rice ..., 1793), by Patrick Rice, Henry Rice, and William Spotswood (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Enquire Within Upon Everything, contrib. by Robert Kemp Philp (multiple editions)
• The American Instructor: or, Young Man's Best Companion (10th edition, revised and corrected; Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1753), by George Fisher (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature (London: Printed for M. Gilliflower and J. Partridge, 1685), by Nicolas Lémery
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• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Quizzism, and its Key: Quirks and Quibbles From Queer Quarters (sixth edition, 1886), by Albert P. Southwick (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., ca. 1881), by Eliezer Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1897), by Eliezer Edwards
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• Kitāb al-nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāyiʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt (al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻIlmīyah, 1928), by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khayr Ḥasanī (page images at HathiTrust)
• The People's year book and traveler's companion. (New York, Chicago., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latáifo ʼl-maʼárif, auctore Abu Mancur Abdolmalik ibn MOhammed ibn Ismáʼíl at-Thaʼálibí, quem librum e codd. (E. J. Brill, 1867), by ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī and P. de Jong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's book of knowledge, containing a familiar view of the importance of religion, the works of nature, logic, eloquence, the passions, matter and motion ... geometry, geography, astronomy, history, chronology &c. 1st American. (C. Wells, 1800), by Thomas Tegg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gong yi bai ke da quan. (880-03 Shanghai : Shanghai guang yi shu ju, [1928], 1928), by Dielu Jiang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le nouveau recueil de curiositez rares & nouvelles des plus admirables effets de la nature & de l'art : composé de quantité de beaux secrets gallans & autres ; dont quelques-uns ont été tirez du cabinet de feu Monsieur le Marquis de l'Hôpital : ouvrage tres-utile et nécessaire à toutes sortes de personnes, pour la conservation de leur vie (À Leide : Chez Pierre Vander Aa, marchand libraire, 1685., 1685), by Nicolas Lémery and Pieter van der Aa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ideal home educator : a superb library of useful knowledge : forty great books in one volume : containing the story of the Russian Revolutionary Movement and the war with Japan ; concise and exhaustive articles upon history, science, arts and mechanics, underground transit, aerial transportation, submarine navigation, automobile touring, wireless telegraphy, etc., etc., ; marvelous peculiarities of the strange people and countries of the world : the latest discoveries and inventions depicting the development and application of the great natural forces and principles utilized by mankind ; the culmulation of centuries of human effort : a complete encyclopedia of the great industries of this age, a graphic account of the gigantic consolidations and combinations of world-wide influence, and the the commercial and mechanical methods of the world's great industries including a valuable list of review questions for students (Bible House, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quizzism and its key : quirks and quibbles from queer quarters, a melange of questions in literature, science, history, biography, mythology, philology, geography, etc., etc., with their answers (New England Pub. Co., 1884), by Albert Plympton Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hijutsu denpō (Hakubunkan, 1897), by Otowa Ōhashi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's companion : or, Arithmetick made easy, with plain directions for a young man to attain to read and write true English... (Scott, Foresman, 1939), by W. Mather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of useful information : embracing more than 100,000 facts, figures and fancies, drawn from every land and language, and carefully classified for the ready reference of teachers, students and the family circle (Werner Co., 1895), by J. C. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of useful knowledge, being a collection of valuable miscellaneous receipts and philosophical experiments, selected from various authors. (Printed for the author by W. Rawson, 1810), by William Pybus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sekai setsuyō mujinzō (Yoshioka Heisuke, 1876), by Kenshichi Yokoo, Masaki Shōtarō, and Hanzan Matsukawa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grösseres Handbuch für Schüler zum Gebrauche bei dem Unterrichte in Bürgerschulen und höheren Unterrichtsanstalten (J. Klinhardt, 1874), by A. Berthelt, K. Petermann, and J. Jäkel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lift for the lazy. (Putnam, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divers ou les enseigements de la vie. (Quebec, 1898), by Charles P. Florent Baillairgé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hill's manual of social and business forms : a guide to correct writing ... (Standard Book Co., 1883), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Z̆inynas. Knyga ziniu is mitologijos, historijos, etnografijos, geografijos, astronomijos, aritmetikos, medicinos, ir kitu mokslu bei ju saku ... ("Lietuvos" spauda, 1911), by J. Laukis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The private instructor, and young gentleman's pocket companion : comprising every thing necessary in arithmetic, mensuration, guaging, book-keeping, and conveyancing, to form and complete the man of business : also, tables shewing the value, in dollars and cents, of any number of pounds, shillings, and pence ... : the whole upon a new and improved plan, and adapted wholly to private instruction (Published by D. Fenton, 1815), by John Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of every-day wants : containing twenty thousand receipts in nearly every department of human effort (F.M. Reed, 1872), by A. E. Youman and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A million of facts connected with the studies, pursuits, and interests of mankind, serving as a common-place book of useful reference on all subjects of research and curiosity. (Conner & Cooke, 1836), by R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xue sheng zhi nan (Qin feng shu ju, 1929), by Chonggan Ma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Muhtıra (Mekteb-i Fünun-u Harbiye-ye Şahane Matbaası, 1893), by Colmar Goltz and Mahmud Şevket Paşa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaʻar ha-ḳadim (Farag Ḥayim Mizraḥi, 1895), by Shelomoh Ḥazan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wei ji yu bian (Huai de tang cang ban, 1841), by Xiangtang Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young gentleman and lady's assistant : containing I. Geography, II. Natural history, III. Rhetoric, IV. Miscellany ; to which is added a short but complete system of practical arithmetic, wherein the money of the United States of America is rendered easy to the perception of youth (Printed for the author by N. Douglas, 1794), by Donald Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeng ding shi yi jing shu bian yong tong kao za zi (Zhuang yuan ge, in the 1900s), by Sansheng Xu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of useful knowledge. (Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813), by John Millard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secretos raros de artes y oficios. (Villalpando, 1807), by Lucas Antonio de Palacio (page images at HathiTrust)
• The busy man's hand-book : a condensed cyclopedia of historical, geographical, scriptural, scientific, legal, social, mercantile, medical, and useful information (Astra Pub. Co., 1893), by Nugent Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hill's manual of social and business forms; the how-to-do everything book of Victorian America. (Quadrangle Books, 1971), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things not generally known: a popular hand-book of facts not readily accessible in literature, history, and science. (D. Appleton, 1857), by John Timbs and David A. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things not generally known, familiarly explained. A book for old and young. (Lockwood, 1867), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of notions (Bela Marsh ;, 1850), by John Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animali da cortile (U. Hoepli, 1888), by Paolo Bonizzi and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brevi cenni sulle acque minerali ed in particolare sulle acque di Courmayeur e Pré St.-Didier nella valle d'Aosta : nuova guida pratica (F. Casanova, 1879), by Venanzio Santanera and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conseils aux acheteurs de chevaux : ou traité de la conformation extérieure du cheval a l'état de santé ou de maladie ... (Auguste Goin, éditeur, 1865), by John Stewart, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Baron d' Hanens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il cavallo (U. Hoepli, 1891), by Carlo Volpini and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tavole di riduzione (Fratelli Pic, 1844), by Gioachino Simondi and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gentleman's pocket intelligencer (Printed by J. Abraham, 1788), by Daniel Fenning and John Malham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inquire within for anything you want to know, or, Over three thousand seven hundred facts worth knowing : particularly intended as a book for family reference on all subjects connected with domestic economy, and containing the largest and most valuable collection of useful information that has ever yet been published : inquirers are referred to the index. (Garrett, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857), by Robert Kemp Philp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things not generally known : a popular hand-book of facts not readily accessible in literature, history, and science (Appleton, 1879), by John Timbs and David Ames Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fu min jiu min xin qi fa (Wan Sheng wen ming fen she, 1912), by Puchang Gao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inquire within (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1856), by Robert Kemp Philp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lee's priceless recipes : a valuable collection of tried formulas and simple methods for farmers, housekeepers, mechanics ... : alphabetically indexed (Laird & Lee, Publishers, 1895), by William H. Lee and N. T. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The artizans' guide and everybody's assistant : containing over two thousand new and valuable receipts and tables in almost every branch of business connected with civilized life, from the household to the manufactory (Printed by John Lovell, 1873), by R. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1000 secrets of rich and wise men revealed (s.n.], 1898), by C. A. Bogardus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricettario domestico (Ulrico Hoepli, 1906), by J. Ghersi and Arturo Castoldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of receipts (Planet Pub. Co., 1897), by Henry B. Scammell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Merchant's handy book and provincial exhibition guide for 1878 containing interest and exchange tables, business laws, list of telegraph and bank offices, list of counterfeit bank bills, foreign moneys, weights and measures and a variety of other useful information. (Hunter, Rose, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sutton souvenir (s.n., 1899), by W. Bowman Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The artizan's guide and everybody's assistant containing over three thousand new and valuable receipts and tables in almost every branch of business connected with civilized life, from the household to the manufactory (s.n.], 1874), by R. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Webster's encyclopædia of useful information and world's atlas a universal assistant and treasure-house of information on every conceivable subject, from the household to the manufactory : gives information about everything, is absolutely indispensable to every one in all walks of life, it is to be consulted on every question that arises in every-day life by old and young alike : and contains information of solid value and practical utility for workingmen of all trades, occupations and professions, the stock raiser, the household and every family who wants to save money : containing a remedy for every ill, a solution for every difficulty, and a method for every emergency (W. Dobie, 1889), by D. L. Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide de Lévis pour l'année 1899 (s.n.], 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The artizans' guide and everybody's assistant containing over two thousand new and valuable receipts and tables in almost every branch of business connected with civilized life, from the household to the manufactory (s.n.], 1873), by R. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The artizans' guide and everybody's assistant containing over two thousand new and valuable receipts and tables in almost every branch of business connected with civilized life, from the household to the manufactory (s.n.], 1872), by R. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts and figures a useful handbook of valuable information for the people : brimful of things worth knowing, things difficult to remember, tables of reference, hints and helps for everybody. (T. Milburn, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire française pour servir d'introduction à la grammaire latine. (s.n.], 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home manual : everybody's guide in social, domestic, and business life : a treasury of useful information for the million ... : the contents of one hundred books in a single volume : touches ten thousand topics, embracing etiquette, hygiene, household economy ... (A.M. Thayer & Co., 1889), by John A. Logan, Will Carleton, Catherine Owen, and William Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quizzism; and its key : quirks and quibbles from queer quarters : a mélange of questions in literature, science, history, biography, mythology, philology, geography, etc., etc., with their answers (New England Pub. Co., 1886), by Albert Plympton Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The housewife's companion / [compiled and arranged by Henry M. Mathews] ; presented with the compliments of A. Shuman & Co. (Lockwood, Brooks & Co. for the compilers, 1878), by Henry M. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chie no umi joshi no gijutsu (Sasaki Keisuke, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopaedia for youth. (Souter and Law, London School Library, 1846), by Mrs Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Things not generally known, familiarly explained. : A book for old and young. (David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1857), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dai Nihon kokumin senʼyō jitchi yūeki taizen (Usagiya Shiten, 1886), by Nakakazu Ishibashi and Yoshie Tamura (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Girl's own indoor book : containing practical help to girls on all matters relating to their material comfort and moral well-being (J.B. Lippincott, 1892), by Charles Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Family visitor and academical register (s.n., 1838), by John Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• College of life (Bessemer, Ala. : Hollingsworth & Porter, [1898?], 1898), by Henry Davenport Northrop, I. Garland Penn, and Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktisk handbok fo r svenskarne i Amerika ... (Hemlandet], 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American pocket library of useful knowledge (Printed by C. Sherman, 1841), by Thomas Curtis Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• College of life (Cincinnati, Ohio : W.H. Ferguson Co., 1896., 1896), by Henry Davenport Northrop, I. Garland Penn, and Joseph R. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The finished scholar. (Dorrance & company, 1941), by William H. Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navīna Marāṭhī saṃsāra copaḍī (Purandare āṇi Kampanī, 1913), by Raghunātha Kr̥shṇa Muḷe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A million of facts of : correct data and elementary information concerning the entire circle of the sciences, and on all subjects of speculation and practice (Ward, Lock and Co., 1839), by R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hill's manual of social and business forms : a guide to correct writing with approved methods in speaking and acting in the various relations of life (Hill Standard Book Co., 1888), by Thomas E. Hill and Crown Zellerbach Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hill's manual of social and business forms : a guide to correct writing showing how to express written thought plainly, rapidly, elegantly and correctly... (Moses Warren, 1878), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to do : a consulting library for every want (Powers, Higley & Co., 1903), by L. W. Yaggy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal repository of domestic economy (Printed for W. Pritchard ... and J. Bysh, 1817), by David Hughson and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best of everything by the author of "Enquire within." 50th thous. (London, etc., 1874), by Robert Kemp Philp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A million of facts : connected with the studies, pursuits, and interests of manking, serving as a common-place book of useful reference on all subjects of research and curiosity (Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1832), by R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin of learning ([s.n.], 1874), by Nawfal Niʻmat Allāh Ṭarābulusī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889, by Barkham Burroughs (Gutenberg ebook)
• A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets most necessary, pleasant, and profitable for all sorts of people / published by Signier Francisco Dickinson ... (London : Printed for the author ..., 1649), by Francisco Dickinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent. (London : Printed for George Powell and William Powle ..., 1686), by Gent J. D. and Nahum Tate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Booke of pretty conceits taken out of Latine, French, Dutch and English : very merry, and very pleasant and good to bee read of all such as doe delight in new and merry conceits. (London : Printed by Miles Flesher, 1628) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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