(FOOD AND DRINK) Gardiner John; and David Hepburn The Americ

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(FOOD AND DRINK.) Gardiner, John; and David Hepburn. The American Gardener. 347, [1] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked in period style; 1819 gift inscription to Timothy Pickering on flyleaf. Georgetown, DC, 1818

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Second edition, expanded from the 1804 edition with the inclusion of a "Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia" and "a Few Hints for the Cultivation of Native Vines, and Directions for Making Domestic Wines." Includes recipes for currant wine, blackberry wine, "champagne wine of gooseberries," and tomato ketchup. A recipe for balsamic vinegar is declared "excellent in spasms and suffocations; in rubbing the hands and temple with it you may venture into foul air." Sabin 26621 (lists only the third edition); Shaw-Shoemaker 44127; not in the culinary bibliographies.