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1851 CHEMISTRY technology SUGAR PRODUCTION cheese cigars Scarce 1851 antique hardcover -- Volume III of three volume set -- CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY; or CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO THE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, by F. Knapp, E. Ronalds and T. Richardson. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings, with seven gorgeous fold out colored engravings showing equipment used in sugar refining and production. The text of this volume is completely devoted to THOSE BRANCHES OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY INCLUDING THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD AND RELATED TO AGRICULTURE … much on water, cheese, milk, meat, grains, tea, coffee, cigars and tobacco, bread, sugar and on mills, ovens, steam powered sugar cane presses and things like production of starch from rice and the horse chestnut and beetroot sugar production… there is a great deal on sugar production and processes…pressing and filtration and refining, curing, “claying,” and on and on. The book is part of a larger set titled the LIBRARY OF ILLUSTRATED STANDARD SCIENTIFIC WORKS. Volume III of three volume set -- CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY; or CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO THE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, F. Knapp, edited and revised by E. Ronalds and T. Richardson, London : Hippolyte Bailliere, 1851. 5.75 x 9 inches. 458 pages, plus plates, plus several pages of explanation of plates. Several illustrated publisher ads at beginning of book. The read more