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• The Worth of a Peny: or, A Caution to Keep Money With the Causes of the Scarcity and Misery of the Want Hereof in These Hard and Mercilesse Times; As Also How to Save it in Our Diet, Apparell, Recreations, &c.: and Also What Honest Courses Men in Want May Take to Live (London: Printed by R. Hearne, 1641), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Economist, by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)
• The Cook's Pocket-Companion and Compleat Family-Guide: Being a Collection of the Very Best Receipts (London: Printed for J. Staples, 1758), by Lydia Honeywood (page images at NIH)
• The Family's Best Friend, or The Whole Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: Together With a Complete System of Brewery; The Management of Malt Liquors; The Distillery of Simple and Compound Waters, Family Cordials, &c; and Instructions for the Cultivating of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden (6th edition; London: Printed for C. Henderson, ca. 1755), by Arabella Fairfax (page images at NIH)
• Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature (London: Printed for M. Gilliflower and J. Partridge, 1685), by Nicolas Lémery
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• A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, by Thomas Tusser (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Five hundred points of good husbandry, as well for the champion or open country, as for the woodland or several; together with A book of huswifery. Being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the sixteenth century (Lackington, Allen, and co., 1812), by Thomas Tusser and William Fordyce Mavor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julii Bernhards (J.C. Martini, 1726), by Julius Bernhard von Rohr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeconomicus of Xenophon (Macmillan & Co., 1884), by Xenophon and Hubert Ashton Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A way to get wealth. Containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves ... (Printed by John Streater for George Sawbridge, 1668), by Gervase Markham and William Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted. (C. Bathurst ... ;, 1767), by John Fitzherbert, Gentian Hervet, Xenophon, and Robert Vansittart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le menage de la ville et des champs, et le jardinier françois accommodez au gout du tems; ou la maniere facile d'aprêter tout ce qui est necessaire pour l'usage de la vie, & de cultiver parfaitement les jardins fruitiers, potagers & à fleurs. Avec un traité de la chasse & de la pêche. Ouvrage utile à toutes fortes de personnes. (Chez Jean Leonard Librairie-Imprimeur, 1712), by Louis Liger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The accomplished housekeeper, and universal cook. : Containing all the various branches of cookery; directions for roasting, boiling and made dishes, also for frying, broiling, stewing, mincing, and hashing. The different methods of dressing poultry, game, and fish ... Directions for carving. With a catalogue of the various articles in season every month in the year. (Printed for J. Scatcherd, 1797), by T. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Goodman of Paris (Le ménagier de Paris) (Harcourt, Brace, 1928), by Bourgeois parisien and Eileen Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madam Johnson's present : or, every young woman's companion in useful and universal knowledge ... (Printed for J. Williams, 1770), by Mary Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Accomplish'd housewife's companion (Printed for C. Rivington, 1723), by John Nott, Charles Rivington, and Thordarson Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Part II including a great variety of the most curious receipts ... To which is added from a poulterer in St. Jame's-Market, the manner of trussing all sorts of poultry ... (Printed for D. Browne and T. Woodman, 1732), by Richard Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie (Reprinted for R. Triphook and W. Sancho, 1810), by Thomas Tusser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le menage universel de la ville et des champs, et le jardinier accomodez au goût du tems : ou la maniere facile d'aprêter tout ce qui est necessaire pour l'usage de la vie, & de cultiver parfaitement les jardins fruitiers, potagers, & à fleurs : avec un traité de la chasse & de la pêche (Chez Jean Leonard, 1720), by Louis Liger and Sontheimer Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The toilet of Flora, or A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences ... : for the use of the ladies (Printed for W. Nicoll, 1772), by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (page images at HathiTrust)
• A way to get wealth. : Containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, ... (Printed by E.H. for George Sawbridge ..., 1676), by Gervase Markham, George Sawbridge, William Lawson, Simon Harward, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nützliche hausz- und feld-schule das ist: : wie man ein landfled- guth und meyerey mit aller zugeho̊re; als da seynd die nothwendige gebåu vollkommene hauszhaltung allerley viehzucht ackerbau wiesen garten fischereyen waldungen und dergleichen mit nutzen anordnen solle: worbey dann auch zugleich eine zur haushaltung auf dem lande nůtzliche hausz-artzney fůr menschen und vieh sampt einem immerwåhrenden calender und allerhand nůtzlichen hausz-kůnsten mit sonderbarem fleisz colligirt, und mehrentheils ausz eigener erfahrunf auf die mitte des Teutschlandes gerichtet dergleichen zuvor niemahls gesehen und zum erstenmahl mit darzu geho̊rigen figuren an den tag (In verlegung Paul Fůrstens/ kunst- und buchhåndl. Seel: Wittib und erben. Gedruckt daselbst bey C. Gerhard, 1678), by Georg Andreas Böckler, Paul Fůrstens, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• A way to get wealth: : containing sixe principall vocations or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As ... (Printed by E.G. for J. Harison, 1638), by Gervase Markham, Simon Harward, John Harison, William Lawson, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Albert moderne, ou Nouveaux secrets et procédés, utiles ou curieux, : pour l'entretien de la beauté & de la santé; la guérison des maux & maladies; la conservation & les diverses préparations des alimens & des boissons; les diverses parties de l'économic, tant civile que rurale; les arts & métiers des villes & des campagnes (Chez Duchesne libraire ..., 1793), by Pons Augustin Alletz, veuve Duchesne, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Albert moderne, ou Nouveaux secrets éprouvés et licites, : recueillis d'après les découvertes les plus récentes; les uns ayant pour objet de remédier à un grand nombre d'accidens qui intéressent la santé: les autres, quantité de choses utiles à favoir pour les différens besoins de la vie: d'autres enfin, tout ce qui concerne le pur agrément, tant aux champs au'à la ville. Le tout divisé en trois parties, & rangé par ordre alphabétique (Chez La Veuve Duchesne, Libraire ..., 1772), by Pons Augustin Alletz, veuve Duchesne, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erfindungen (s.n.], 1786), by Kaspar Schöntaube and Gustav Bergmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Noth- und Hülfs-Büchlein, oder, Lehrreiche Freuden- und Trauergeschichte des Dorfes Mildheim. (In der Beckerischen Buchhandlung, 1814), by Rudolph Zacharias Becker and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• A way to get wealth: : containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, ... (Printed for A. and J. Churchill ..., 1695), by Gervase Markham, Awnsham Churchill, William Lawson, and Simon Harward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xenophontis Oeconomicus. (Sumptibus F. Hennings (Londini, apud Black et Armstrong), 1842), by Xenophon and Ludwig Breitenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hundreth good pointes of husbandzy, lately maried vnto a hundzeth good poynts of huswifery: newly cozrected and amplified with dyuers pzoper lessons foz housholders ... (In aedibus Richardi Tottylli ..., 1570), by Thomas Tusser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haus- und Kunst-Übung (Nürnberg : Verlegts Sebastian Trautner, anno 1715., 1715), by Sebastian Trautner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations and advices oeconomical (Printed by T.R. for John Martyn printer to the Royal Society ..., 1669), by Dudley North, John Martyn, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die zu allerhand raren und neuen Curiositäten, auch vielen andern ungemeinen Künst- und Wissenschafften eröffnete guldene Kunst-Pforte, getreulich angewiesen in einem gantz neu heraus gegebenen Kunst-Buch : in dessen voran gedruckten Jnnhalt alle Materien so in diesem gantzen Werck enthalten zu ersehen sind : ein Werck so nicht allein vielen Künstlern und Handwerckern, sondern auch fast jederman, wes Standes und Dignität er immer seyn mag, sehr nutzlich und dienlich (Franckfurt : Jn Verlegung Johann Adolphs, Buchhändlers in Nürnberg, an. 1710., 1710), by Johann Adolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'Audiger, limonadier à Paris, XVIIe siècle (Paris : Académie des bibliophiles, 1869., 1869), by Audiger, Louis Lacour, and France) Académie des bibliophiles (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nützlichen Hauss- und Feld-Schule zweyter Theil, in welchem nicht allein dasjenige worvon allbereit im Ersten unterweilen kürtzlich gehandelt, noch ferner deutlich und besser ausgeführet, sondern auch zu Belustigung des curieusen Liebhabers des Land-Lebens ein umständiger Bericht von der Vogelwayd, Baitzen, Jagen, Fischen, Krebsen, Mühlwerck, Artzney-Kunst, Träumen, Chiromantie, Physiognomie, Wappen-Kunst, Mahlerey, Proportion des menschlichen Cörpers, verborgenen Schrifften, Rechnen, allerhand Maas, Gewicht, Schuhe und Elen, Zeit und Jahrs Abtheilung und immerwährenden Calender beygefüget ... (Franckfurt ; und Leipzig : In Verlegung Joh. Adam Merckels, Buchhändl., anno MDCXCIX [1699], 1699), by Georg Andreas Böckler and Johann Adam Merckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal family cook (London : Printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, no. 112, Holborn-Hill., [1800?], 1800), by W. A. Henderson, William Stratford, Collinger, and England) W. & J. Stratford (Booksellers : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het leerzaam huisraad : vertoond in vystig konstige figuuren, met godylke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen (A. W. Sijthoff, 1967), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• La maison réglée, et l'art de diriger la maison d'un grand seigneur & autres, tant à la ville qu'à la campagne, & le devoir de tous les officiers, & autres domestiques en général : avec la véritable méthode de faire toutes sortes d'essences, d'eaux et de liqueurs, fortes & rafraîchissantes, à la mode d'Italie : ouvrage utile et necessaire à toutes sortes de personnes de qualité, gentils-hommes de province, etrangers, bourgeois, officiers de grandes maisons, limonadiers & autres marchands de liqueurs. (A Amsterdam : Chez Paul Marret, dans le Beurstraat, à la Renommée, MDCC [1700], 1700), by Audiger and Paul Marret (page images at HathiTrust)
• A way to get wealth: : containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves. As ... (Printed by B.A. for John Harison! ..., 1648), by Gervase Markham, William Lawson, Simon Harward, and John Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeconomicus of Xenophon (Macmillan, 1895), by Xenophon and Hubert Ashton Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English hous-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman : as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banquetting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloth and dying, the knowldege of dayries, office of malting, of oats, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking and all other things belonging to an houshold : a work generally approved, and now the eighth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this nation (London : Printed by W. Wilson, for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-hill near Fleet Bridge, 1664., 1664), by Gervase Markham and George Sawbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little booke of conceited secrets & delightes for ladies... : newly set forth (London : The Medici Society, [1928], 1928), by Phyllis Margaret Twigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of huswifery (Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. ..., 1812), by Thomas Tusser and William Fordyce Mavor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British housewife, or, The cook, housekeeper's, and gardiner's companion : Calculated for the service both of London and the country : and directing what is necessary to be done in the providing for, conducting, and managing a family throughout the year ... Together with the nature of all kinds of foods, and the method of suiting them to different constitutions; a bill of fare for each month, the art of marketing and chusing fresh provisions of all kinds... With the conduct of a family in respect of health; the disorders to which they are every month liable, and the most approved remedies for each : and a variety of other valuable particulars, necessary to be known in all families ... (Printed for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, 1770), by Martha Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The office of the good house-wife with necessary directions for the ordering of her family and dairy, and the keeping of all such cattle as to her particular charge the over-sight belongs : also the manner of keeping and governing of silk-wormes and honey-bees, both very delightsome and profitable / by F.B. (London : Printed by T. Ratcliffe and N.Thompson for Richard Mills ..., 1672), by F. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie first deuised, & nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, and other needefull matters : together with an abstract before euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the saide moneth : with a table & a preface in the beginning both necessary to be reade, for the better understandinge of the booke / set forth by Thomas Tusser ... ([London] : Imprinted at London in Flete strete within Temple barre at the signe of the Hand & Starre, by Richard Tottill, 1573), by Thomas Tusser (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The cook's guide: or, Rare receipts for cookery Published and set forth particularly for ladies and gentlwomen; being very beneficial for all those that desire the true way of dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowles, and fish; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most ho-good sawces: whereby noble persons and others in their hospitalities may be gratified in their gusto's. Never before printed. By Hannah Wolley. (London : [p]rinted for Peter Dring at the Sun in the Poultry, next door to the Rose-Tavern, 1664), by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (London : printed for R. Lowndes at the White Lion in Duck-Lane, near West-Smithfield, 1670), by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Oeconomicus. English ([Imprinted at London : In Fletestrete, by Thomas Berthelet prynter to the kynges most noble grace, an. M.D.xxxij.] [1532]), by Xenophon and Gentian Hervet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A supplement to The queen-like closet, or, A little of everything presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen / by Hannah Woolley ... (London : Printed by T.R. for Richard Lownds, and are to be Sold at the Sign of the White Lion ..., 1674), by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Here begynneth a shorte monycyon, or counsayle of the cure & gouernaunce of a housholde accordynge vnto policy / taken out of a pystle of a great learned man called Bernarde syluestre. ([London? : Robert Wyer, 1530?]), by fl. 1136 Bernard Silvestris and Richard Whitford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• England's happiness improved: or, An infallible way to get riches, encrease plenty, and promote pleasure Containing the art of making wine of English grapes, and other fruit, equal to that of France and Spain, &c. with their physical virtues. To make artificial wine, and order all sorts of wine to keep well, and recover what is faded, &c. The whole art and mistery of distilling brandy, strong-waters, cordial waters, &c. To make all sorts of plain and purging ales, cyder, mead, matheglin, rum, rack, and many other useful liquors. To gather, order, and keep fruit, in all seasons. The art and mistery of pickling flowers, fruits, herbs, buds, roots, fish, flesh, &c... . (London : printed for Roger Clavill, and sold by D. Midwinter, and T. Leigh at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The gentlewoman's delight in cookery containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order. ([London] : Printed for J. Back, on London-Bridge[, 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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