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A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy ; and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food adulteration and inspection.
- Food poisoning.
- Food--Analysis.
- Food.
- Poisons.
- Food contamination.
- Penn Provenance:
- Browne, Charles Albert 1870-1947 (autograph) (Smith copy)
- Medical Society of the County of Albany (N.Y.) (inscription) (Smith copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 14-269 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo in 6s)
- Fingerprint:
- nghe 3127 edl- Sobe (3) 1820 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and published by Ab'm Small, 1820.
- Notes:
- Originally published in London in the same year.
- Signatures: [A]⁶ B-Y⁶ Z⁴.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Smith copy acquired in 2016 from Zoe Abrams Rare Books.
- Smith copy previously owned by Medical Society of the County of Albany (N.Y.) with its ms. ownership inscription "Albany Co. Med. Society" on title page.
- Smith copy has ms. signature "C A Browne," probably that of Charles Albert Browne (1870-1947) chemist and biographer of Accum as well as a collector of books relating to historical chemistry; copy also inscribed Ashleigh Bryan(?)
- Cited in:
- Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 16
- Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 8
- Lowenstein, E. Bibliography of American cookery books, 1742-1860 (3rd ed.), 86
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1487
- Cole, W.A. Chemical literature 1700-1860, 11
- Shoemaker 8
- Landsmarks of science
- OCLC:
- 3765695
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