The Hunter and Angler. A handy Manual of Hunting. Trapping, and Angling, with Valuable Hints in regard to Guns, Rods, Game, Fish, and Baits; including instructions for the care and Medical Treatment of Dogs. It gives good advice in the choice of guns, rifles, and their necessary ammunition for the different purposes for which they are employed; also a description of the dogs used for sporting, with their treatment in health and sickness. It includes advice and instructions for the use of fishing rods and their appurtenances, with the best flies and baits for attracting the various kinds of fishes. Also a description of the most reliable and successful traps and snares for animals and birds, with appropriate baits. Illustrated.
The Taxidermist's Manual. Containing complete Instructions in the Art of Taxidermy, with directions how to Prepare, Mount, and Preserve all kinds of Birds, Animals and Insects. By Graham Allen. Profusely illustrated.
The Hamilton Speaker. A collection of New and Original Extracts, arranged and adapted for Reading, Speaking, Recitation, and Elocutionary Culture, for the use of High Schools and Colleges, by Oliver E. Branch, A.M., of the New York Bar, formerly of the Brooklyn Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute.
Burbank's Recitations and Readings. A collection of Humorous, Dramatic and Dialect Selections, edited and arranged for public readings or recitation, by Alfred P. Burbank. Containing many choice selections never before in print.
Dick's Comic and Dialect Recitations. A collection of comic Recitations and Dialogues, funny Stories, laughable Descriptive Pieces and Parodies, in Yankee, Dutch, Irish, and Chinese Dialects, suitable for Entertainments and Exhibitions.
Paper covers | 30 cts. |
Boards | 50 cts. |
Dick's Dutch, French, and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen's Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own peculiar dialect.
170 pages, paper | 30 cts. |
Boards | 50 cts. |
Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations. A Collection of rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish Dialect. This collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best recitations in the Irish Dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of "Recitation" books.
170 pages, paper | 30 cts. |
Boards | 50 cts. |
Dick's Little Speeches for Little Speakers. A carefully selected collection of short and easy pieces, suitable for young children and little tots, thoroughly in keeping with their cunning little ideas and ways; including also instructive, patriotic and earnest pieces appropriate for all occasions.
Kavanaugh's Juvenile Speaker. For very Little Boys and Girls. Containing short and easily-learned Speeches and Dialogues, expressly adapted for School Celebrations, May-day Festivals and Children's Exhibitions. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh.
Paper | 30 cts. |
Boards | 50 cts. |
Dick's Home Made Candies; or, How to Make Candy in the Kitchen. Containing complete Directions for making all the newest and most delicious Cream Confections, with boiled syrup, or by the French method without boiling: also the best receipts for all the favorite Candies, Bon-bons, Glaces, Caramels, Taffy, etc., with perfectly harmless flavorings and colorings, including all the information for syrup-boiling, clarifying, and the use of utensils, necessary to insure the most successful results.
Confectioner's Hand-Book. Giving plain and practical directions for making Confectionery. Containing upward of three hundred Recipes, consisting of directions for making all sorts of Candies, Jellies, Comfits, Preserves, Sugar Boiling, Iced Liquors, Waters, Gum, Paste and Candy Ornaments, Syrups, Marmalades, Essences, Fruit, Pastes, Ice Creams, Icings, Meringues, Chocolates, etc., etc. A complete Hand-Book of the Confectioner's Art.
The Amateur Trapper and Trap-Maker's Guide. A complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of Trapping, Snaring and Netting. This comprehensive work is embellished with fifty engraved illustrations; and these, together with the clear explanations which accompany them, will enable anybody of moderate comprehension to make and set any of the traps described. It also gives the baits usually employed by the most successful Hunters and Trappers, and exposes their secret methods of attracting and catching animals, birds, etc., with scarcely a possibility of failure.
Large 16mo, paper | 50 cts. |
Boards | 75 cts. |
Rarey & Knowlson's Complete Horse Tamer and Farrier. A New and Improved Edition, containing: Mr. Rarey's Whole Secret of Subduing and Breaking Vicious Horses; His improved plan of Managing Young Colts, and Breaking them to the Saddle, to Harness and the Sulky; Rules for Selecting a Good Horse, and for Feeding Horses. Also the Complete Farrier or Horse Doctor; being the result of fifty years' extensive practice of the author, John C. Knowlson, during his life an English Farrier of high popularity; containing the latest discoveries in the cure of Spavin. Illustrated with descriptive engravings.
Holberton's Art of Angling; or, How and Where to Catch Fish. A practical Hand-Book for learners in everything that pertains to the art of fishing with Rod and Reel. By Wakeman Holberton. Fully illustrated. It describes the special methods and appliances requisite to catch each variety of the finny tribe, and the most favorable localities to find them; with practical hints on camping out, necessary outfit, and the best choice of apparatus and baits, etc.
The Amateur Printer; or, Type-Setting at Home. A thorough and complete instructor for the amateur in all the details of the Printer's Art, giving practical information in regard to type, ink, paper and all the implements requisite, with illustrated directions for using them in a proper manner.
The Painter's Hand-Book. A thorough Guide to all that pertains to internal and external plain and tasteful House-painting. It explains the nature of the pigments or materials in general use, the best methods for their preparation and appliance, and the art of mixing colors to produce any desired tint or shade; with valuable receipts, hints and information to amateurs and experts.