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Hardcover. Condición: New. .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Facsimile. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Dust jacket has small edge wear repairs, top edge of text has light foxing (age spots), otherwise a very clean and well bound copy, appears unread. 5.25 X 8.25" 478 pages. from the original title page dated 1892: " The Household Guide or Domestic Cyclopedia - A Practical Family Physician. Home Remedies and Home Treatment On All Diseases. An Instructor on Nursing, Housekeeping and Home Adornments by Prof. B. G. Jefferis, M.D., Ph. D. and J. L. Nichols, A.M. - Also - A Complete Cook Book of Mrs. J. L. Nichols - Thirty-Eighth Edition J. L. NIchols & Company Naperville, Ill. Sold Only By Subscription Agents Wanted" At the turn of the last century the household cyclopedia was the only source of reference many homemakers had. They didn't have many of the things we take for granted today such as electricity, aspirin, shampoo, shaving cream or penicillin. The household cyclopedia was like a domestic bible.