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The vvorth of a penny, or, A caution to keep money : VVith the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want thereof, in these hard and merciless times: as also how to save it, in our diet, apparel, recreations, &c. And also what honest courses men in want may take to live. By Henry Peacham Mr. in Arts, sometime of Trinity Colledge Cambridge. Now newly reprinted according to order, and made more publick than heretofore: with some additions of notes in the margin; and the Greek and Latin sentences Englished. Now last of all, are added some grave sentences, with many learned observations, in a different letter from the former: with a catalogue of the Bills of Mortality, from 1642. to 1669. Printed this 12:h of January, 1669.
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643Date: 1669 [i.e. 1670]
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The cottage cook; or, Mrs. Jones's cheap dishes. Shewing the way to do much good with little money.
Date: [Between 1805? and 1818?]
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A physician carries an anonymous, re-usable wreath 'to his clients'. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17069i- Books
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The way to save wealth : shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make a hundred noble dishes of meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good cheap liquor, without malt or hops. To make shoes last long. To make coals last long. To save soap in washing. To save cloth in cutting out a shirt. To make coffee of horse-beans To feed cattel well, without hay, grass, or corn. To save candles. To know any one's mind by signs; if there be twenty in company, they cannot apprehend it. To order bees aright. To settle your estate with Christian prudence. To know Scripture-weights and measures. Of dreams. To cure wounds by sympathy. The way to live long. To make spring-potage. To cure all sorts of cattle for 12 d. charge. To improve land, order and cure all deseases in singing birds. To kill vermin. To brew pale ales. To make wines, and all sorts of liquor, and an easy way to fine, and order them. With divers other curious matter.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: [1695?]