America.- Barnum (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, first edition, woodcut frontispiece depicting gardening, ploughing, harvesting and a family spinning wool, woodcut illustrations of carving in text, tables, final advertisement f., very small hole in 'Preface' f., affecting 3 letters, without loss of sense of text, 33/5 (first f. of 'A Vocabulary') with piece from outer margin, foxed, some staining, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, corners restored, [Bitting p.28; Cagle & Stafford 61; Lowenstein 141], 8vo in 6s, Cincinnati, Published by A.B. Roff, Lincoln & Co. Printers, 1831. *** One of the earliest household guides printed in the Mid-West. Includes cookery, brewing, confectionery, gardening, agriculture, and farriery. With a vocabulary 'of such technical or uncommon words as are used in this work' at end.