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'Cooley's Toilet and Cosmetic Arts. 



The Toilet and Cosmetic Arts, in Ancient and Modem Times. With a 

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 respecting the Selection and Use of Perfumes, Cosmetics, and other Toilet 

 Articles; and a Comprehensive Collection of Formuloe, and Directions 

 for their Preparation. By Arnold J. Cooley, Author of " Cyclopcedia 

 of Receipts : Processes, Data, and Collateral Information, &c.,in tlie Arts 

 and Manufactures.^^ With Index to about 6000 Matters of Interest, Use 

 or Caution. Demi-Octavo. ....... $3.00 



Ott on the Manufacture of Soaps and Candles. 



Including the Most Recent Discoveries, embracing all kinds of Ordinary 



Hard, Soft, and Toilet Soaps, especially those made by the Cold Process ; 



and the Modes of Detecting Frauds in the Manufacturing and the Making 



of Tallow and Composite Candles. By Adolph Ott, Practical and 



Analytical Chemist. 12mo. With Illustrations. (Just ready.) $2.50 



The author, in preparing this volume, has been careful to give a clear and concise 



(Hjcount of the art of soap and candle making, as now practised, so as to make the work 



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and critical explanations of the various manipulations and mechanical arrangements, 



by which they are effected. Much new matter has also been incorporated in the book, 



never before published. 



Piesse's Whole Art of Perfumery. 



A NEW REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION. 



And the Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants; with Instructions for 

 the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, 

 Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soaps, 

 &c.; to xohich is added an Appendix, on Preparing Artificial Fruit 

 Essences, &c. By G. W. Septimus Piesse, Analytical Chhnist. A new 

 American from the Third London Edition. 12mo. With Numerou^a 



Illustrations. ......... $3.00 



Dr. Piesse's volume covers the entire ground of the subject upon which it treats. 

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Overman's Practical Mineralogy, Assaying 

 and Mining. 



With a Description of the Usefxd Minerals, and Instructions for Assaying, 

 according to the simplest Methods. By Frederick Overman, Mining 

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The object of this volume is to place before the j^iblic the characteristics and usef 

 »i minerals, in a popular style, avoiding, as far as possible, the use of scientific and 

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Piggott on Copper Mining and Copper Ore. 



Containing a full Description of some of the Prin<:ipal Copper Mines of the 

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 Market, d-c, &c. By A. Snowden Piggott, M.D., Practical Chemist. 

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