CULTURE AND HOME LIFE
Vol. 1-2 (complete in 2 vols.)
An encyclopedic work for everyday use.
Handbook of all practical knowledge.
Advisor in times of health and illness.
Katowice br. [circa 1938], VITA edition, pp.304; 305-516; illustrations in the text and on separate plates; format: 20x26cm
PUBLISHER'S HARDCOVER CLOTH BINDING WITH POKI WITH STAINED EMBOSSING
Comprehensive farm manual covering all spheres of domestic life, including:
*technical issues of stoves, tableware; cooking and culinary,: dishes and snacks from salads, mushrooms through fish, goose devils and crayfish to partridge pheasants, snipe (a bird today seems to be under protection) and my favorites: hare's breast or dishes from venison, cakes, pies, cakes (photo) and various sweets with ways to cut aesthetic additions, ice cream;.
*fashion, i.e. sewing, cuts, fashions, hairstyles; crocheting;
*descriptions of diseases, home medical advice and remedies, health issues with special coverage of a woman her cycles or the charms of motherhood (sex life, pregnancy, childbirth ...);
Very colorful iconography!
Condition DB+/ in vol.1: at the beginning duplicated several k. of book XI [included in vol.2., one of these k. with corner loss], here also missing k.tit.; contents complete, pages clean