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Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life – Fox Hunting

Looking for a Gift for the Book Collector in the Family?

Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Memoranda on Painting – December 1755

Formulaes for Re-Creating the Old-Fashioned Drug Store Counter

Rendering Amber Clear for Use in Lens-Making for Magnifying Glass

Storing Drinking Water in Copper Vessels for Microbial Purification

Suir Vale Harriers Hunt Clonmore Jan 2020

Mrs. Beaton’s Poultry & Game – Cooking Poultry; Baking and Boiling

List of the 60 Franklin Library Signed Limited Editions

A Short Note on Manners for the Young Man Wishing to Make a Goodly Impression Whilst Avoiding Duels

Artistic Endeavour in the Absence of Country Gentlemen

Historic authenticity of the Spanish SAN FELIPE of 1690

The Preparation of Marketable Vinegar

Method of Restoration for Ancient Bronzes and other Alloys

The History of Witchcraft in England – The Beginnings

Cleaning Oil Paint Brushes with Linseed Oil and Yardley of London Shea Butter Soap

Copper Kills Covid-19 and the Sun is Your Friend

On Exquisite Statuary for the Fine Country Home: “I Can Get’em at the British Museum”

Producing and Harvesting Tobacco Seed

Proper Wines to Serve with Food

Fruits of the Empire: Licorice Root and Juice

Recipes From Down Under: Kangaroo Cuts

Modern Slow Cookers, A Critical Design Flaw

A History of the Use of Arsenicals in Man

The First Greek Book by John Williams White

Traditional JuJutsu Health, Strength and Combat Tricks

Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wines, Cordials, and Liqueurs

Something about Caius College, Cambridge

Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

Clairvoyance – Methods of Development

New From the Empire – Jan. 17th, 1851 Vol IX No. 165 Allen’s Indian Mail

On Bernini’s Bust of a Stewart King

Pussy Willow Wielded a Real Broad Sword

The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle

Seeds for Rootstocks of Fruit and Nut Trees

A Conversation between H.F. Leonard and K. Higashi

Fell and Moor Terrier Club circa later 1990s

Stoke Park – Granted by King Charles I

Feeding the Hounds at Chateau Cheverny

Christmas Pudding with Dickens

Antibiotic Properties of Jungle Soil

King William III on Horseback by Sir Godfrey Kneller

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Period Furniture Identification

A History of Fowling – Ravens and Jays

Homemade Wine Recipes from the 16th and 17th Centuries

Chronological Catalog of Recorded Lunar Events

Of Interest to Heavy Drinkers: Cleansing the Liver with Northern Ground Cone (Boschniaka rossica)

Growing Muscadine Grapes in Tennessee

Westminster Confession of Faith – 1646

The Basics of Painting in the Building Trade

Protecting Rare Books: How to Build a Silverfish Trap

The Relation of Chemistry to the progress of Wine Making, Brewing, and Distilling

The Warmth of a Country Christmas

The Whiting Society of Ringing

Bess of Hardwick: Four Times a Lady

Cleaner for Gilt Picture Frames

Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois and the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Chinese Duck Cooking – A Few Recipes

What is the Meaning of the Term Thorough-bred Fox-hound

Cup of Tea? To be or not to be

Parting Words to Kate from The Sloop of War, Jamestown

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

By the time I got to California the blondes had gone home The Beach Boys were sporting dreadlocks and singing reggae songs The life guard at the tower didn’t have a tan Said if you’re looking for Mama Cass she’s asleep over there in the van

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A Jar of Baseball Dreams

June 24th, 2018

Every home should have one to be opened in spring A jar that sits on the table full of baseball dreams

Inside will be found there pennants and things The smell of fresh cut grass and pinstriped rings A pair of old tickets to the game never played, Do you remember how cold it […]

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A Summer Memory

May 3rd, 2018

Here, where these low lush meadows lie, We wandered in the summer weather, When earth and air and arching sky, Blazed grandly, goldenly together.

And oft, in that same summertime, We sought and roamed these self-same meadows, When evening brought the curfew chime, And peopled field and fold with shadows.

I mind me of […]

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Shipmates

April 2nd, 2018

I once met a chap, hailed from Harvard said where’d ye attend school, this here is starboard On his diploma was a bit more yellow Than that on the belly of his scholarly fellows His hat was a good half inch taller Than his lapels which were narrowly smaller So I yanked him up […]

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The Red-Headed Macaw

April 1st, 2018

I swapped a parakeet for a red-headed Macaw That drank my rum and called me paw I’d rock in my chair, she’d swing on her perch When the preacher came around she’d pretend it was church

On Saturday mornings when we drove into town She’d ride on the back of my blue-tick hound Howling […]

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