Knowledge for the people, or, The plain why and because : familiarizing subjects of useful curiosity and amusing research
Description
The title-pages at the beginning of each volume refer (not to the contents in sequence as bound, but) to a proposed binding, as follows: Domestic series (pts.1,3,6,11); Popular chemistry - Mechanics - Arts & manufactures (pts.5,7,10,12); Zoological series (pts.2,4,8,9); Botany - Mineralogy - Geology - Meteorology (pts.13,14,15,16). Contents: [1-4] Domestic series; 1. Domestic science (72pp.) -- 2. Zoology. Quadrupeds (72pp.) -- 3. Origins and antiquities (72pp.) -- 4. Zoology. Birds (pp.73-144) -- [5-8] Popular chemistry - mechanics - arts & manufactures; 5. Popular chemistry (72pp) -- 6. Sports and pastimes (72 pp.) -- 7. Mechanics (72pp.) -- 8. Zoology. Amphibia, fishes &c. (pp.145-216) -- [9-12] Zoological series; 9. Zoology. Insects (pp.217-284) -- 10. Arts and manufactures (72pp.) -- 11. Curious customs (68pp.) -- 12. Popular chemistry (pp.73-140) -- [13-16] Botany - Mineralogy - Geology - Meteorology; 13. Botany (72pp.) -- 14. Botany (concluded) (pp.73-144) -- 15. Mineralogy and geology (72pp.) -- 16. Meteorology (68pp.).
Metadata
| Identifier | tx3x4ddk |
| IRN | 240644 |
| Class Mark | Cookery A/TIM |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - Book |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tx3x4ddk |
| Collection(s) | Cookery Collection |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Cookery Printed Books A - British |