Practical Dietetics: With Reference to Diet in Health and Disease
by Pattee, Alida Frances
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Boards foxed, front hinge cracked, front flyleaf missing, numbers inked on front pastedown.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Mount Vernon, NY: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Boards foxed, front hinge cracked, front flyleaf . missing, numbers inked on front pastedown.. 1918. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue and white striped nurse's uniform gingham. Many vintage ads for various health and diet related products, including Horlick's, Vapo-Cresolene, various pharmaceuticals, including a mouthwash made of formaldehyde, and others. xxv, 543 pp. A quasi-nursing book and cookbook from the end of the World War I era and beginning of the Great Influenza Epidemic. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 543 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36168
- Title
- Practical Dietetics: With Reference to Diet in Health and Disease
- Author
- Pattee, Alida Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards foxed, front hinge cracked, front flyleaf missing, numbers inked on front pastedown.
- Edition
- Twelfth Edition
- Publisher
- Self Published
- Place of Publication
- Mount Vernon, NY
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- 1910s Cookbooks, Dietetics, DIET Cookbooks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking and Gastronomy;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Glossary
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...