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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1731-1839?

Ff.1-5: medical recipes. Ff.426-72: La Pratica del Distillatore e / Confettiere Italiano. Opera di Gioseffantonio / Landvini ... Nuova edizione migliorata / Milano / Presso Giovanni Silvestri. Cucinie...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1805

At one end of the book are cookery receipts, medicinal remedies, and instructions for general household management, preceded at the beginning by a poem in a later hand and, after some blank pages, an ...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1825

A collection of cookery recipes, notes on household management, and medical remedies

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1847

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1850

Contents at one end comprise a collection of cookery recipes (pp.1-137) preceded by an index. At the other endm inverted, is a collection of medicinal and household recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes in various hands, and, at the other end of the book, inverted, a collection of receipts and accounts

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of recipes, mainly medical

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Medical commonplace book, including a catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds General Infirmary

1783-1799

Bound with boards and a vellum backstrip which is partly lost through damage. Comprises extracts on various subjects, but chiefly medical, written between 1783 and 1799, as follows: ff. 1-4, An obs...

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Minute book of the Leeds Medical Club

24 Nov 1862-02 Dec 1872

Bound, paginated volume with an index to the cases discussed in meetings at the front. The book was stored in a wooden box. The first two pages of the volume have notes pasted in with a handwritten ...

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Socialised medicine in the Soviet Union

Sigerist, Henry Ernest (1891-1957); Left Book Club (London, England)

1937

Includes index.

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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands
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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands

17--

Original pagination to the end of the text only; pp.81-2 missing and a hiatus in the text. Thumb index, ff.1-5, extended from front fly-leaf; ff.54 to end, blank. Dated 1769 on f.35r. Signatures: 'Mar...

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