To John Dudman, family grocer & provision merchant, oil and Italian warehouseman, wine, spirit, and beer merchant : 56 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W. : 5 Belsize Park Terrace.

Dr. to John Dudman, Hampstead Borough Stores, 56 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W. : and at Belsize Park : telephone Hampstead 905.

xii, 745 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 22 cm

A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors : with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood.

Material: parchment; 21 leaves; ; ff. 16v-21v blank.; leaf dimensions: width 12 cm, length 17 cm; written dimensions: width 8 cm, length 11 cm

MS.74

xii, 71, 37 pages, [10 leaves of plates] : illustrations ; 24 cm

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

1 volume<br/><pages>290 leaves 4to. 22 x : ; 16 cm Paper. The last section is on vellum. 18th century half calf binding.<pages>No. 1 On the first leaf is an ornamental initial S, in blue and red with floreated border decoration in red and blue, and red and green: in the lower margin an emblazoned coat of arms [Aldobrandino di Lippo of Florence ?]. Other initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. (59 leaves)</pages><pages>Nos 19 and 20 are illustrated with rough pen-drawings of apparatus, diagrams, etc. No. 14 has a circular pen-drawn zodiacal figure in black and red on foleave 3. 27 has a geomantic figure inred on foleave 36, and zodiacal-geomantic tables in red and black on foleave 37v and foleave 38.</pages>

Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I).

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MS.74

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I).

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MS.74

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I).

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