"Containing over Five Hundred New and Valuable Recipes on the manufacture of family and toielt soaps, washing fluids, cements, liquid soldiers for the mending tin, iron, and steel, inks, dyes, domestic medicines, wines, cider, cordials, venigar, pickles, preserves, jellies, and jams; on the art of cooking, and almost every art pertaining to housekeeping and domestic economy; together with departments designed especially for farmers and mechanics, giving valuable information upon various topics connected with their respective vocations." Table of contents is at the end of this book, but there is another book in this volume: "Portraits and Biographies of the Leading Military and Naval Officers of the United States, Including Those of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson." Slim volume with 96 pages in the housekeeping guide and 47 pages in the roster of important military and navel people.  Boards separating from the book. Mild browning of pages and minimal foxing. The Housekeeping portion Published in 1868 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Military and Naval people published in 1867. USED. $85.00