A Course in Wood Turning
Here’s a complete course in the basic, safe, and correct techniques for mastering the lathe.
How to Build an Electric Railway
Contains howto instructions such as: tracks, motor etc, Fully Illustrated
A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
What you should know about self-hypnosis
Archery - It's Theory and Practice
Written by Horace A. Ford, Holder of the Champion Medal in the years 1849 to 1858.
Wood Block Painting
A description of the craft of woodcutting and color printing based on the Japanese practice.
A Bee Keepers Manual
A manual on the hive and honey bee.
Boiler and Furnace Testing
Boiler and furnace testing instructions
Cactus Culture
Cactus culture for amateurs: Being descriptions of the various cactuses grown with full and pratical instructions for their successful cultivation.
Camping in the Woods - Survival Manual
This is a rare early 1900's digital book - a must for your collection.
Field's Chromatography
Treatise on colours and pigments as used by artists
Farm Drainage
The principles, processes, and the effects of draining land with stones, wood, plows and open ditches, and especially with tiles.
The Science of Fingerprints
It is based on many years' experience in fingerprint identification work out of which has developed the largest collection of classified fingerprints in the world.
Flowers and Flower Gardens
By David Lester Richardson, Principal of the Hindu Metropolitan College and Athur of 'Literary Leaves,' 'Literary Recreations' etc.
Fox Hunting
Fox hunting and management of hounds in kennel and the field
French Polishing and Enamelling
A Practical Work of Instruction
including numerous recipes for making polishes, varnishes, glaze-lacquers, revivers etc
Getting Gold - A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and Students
What has been aimed at is to make "Getting Gold" a compendium, in specially concrete form, of useful information respecting the processes of winning from the soil.....
How to Make a Horizontal Slide Valve Engine - Plans and Instructions
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things
Gunnery in 1858
Being a treatise on the cannon and sporting arms. Also principles of the science of gunnery, and describing the fewest improvements in fire-arms.
How to Make a Hot Air Engine
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things.
Hand Shadows - To be thrown upon the wall
A series of novel and amusing figures formed by the hand from original designs by Henry Bursill
History of Shipwrecks - Disasters at Sea
The losses of the Antelope, Pandora, and Medusa, as well as the perils of Madame Godin, and the captivity of De Brisson, have been drawn from valid authorities...
Home Made Harmonographs - Plans and Instructions
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
How To Care For Your Plants
Plain and practical directions for the treatment of tender and hardy plants in the house and in the garden.
How to Sing
A 121 page how-to digital book with illustrations. Written in the early 1900's by Lilli Lehmann, a German operatic Soprano.
How To Use A Telescope
Being a popular guide to the use of the telescope as a means of amusement and instruction. Published in 1873.
Hunting with Bow and Arrow
Vintage instructions with lots of information and illustrations
Iron Making in the Olden Times
As instanced in the ancient mines, forges, and furnaces for the forest of dean...
A Handbook on Japanning
For ironware, tinware, wood, etc. With sections on tin-plating and galvanizing
How To Make Different Types of Kites
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things.
KNOTS, SPLICES and ROPE WORK
A very handy book which gives you practical step by step instructions in making useful and ornamental knots. Chapters include splicing, pointing, seizing, serving, etc.
Care of Livestock and Poultry Manual
This manual was published in 1919 and gives great points on how to care for livestock and poultry.
How To Build Model Pumps
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
Manual of Surgery
This book on Surgery was published in the early 1900's. It contains detailed information on various diseases and shows pictures on the effect the disease has on different parts of the body.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing...
Military Art Manual
Elements of military art and science or; course of instruction in strategy, fortifiction, tactics of battles etc
Military Instructor's Manual
Early 1900's military instructions for the officer on training troops, war tactics, physical training, use of moderm arms and every bit of information an officer needs to know...
A Handbook for Military Training
260 pages filled with military instructions on training. With over 220 illustrations and practical advice on physical exercise, attack and defense, target practice, tent pitching, signals and codes and first aid, it's a rare insight into how troops were trained in 1917.
How To Make Model Boilers
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
How To Build Model Steam Turbines
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
Morris Dancing
With a description of eleven dances as performed by the morris men of england.
The Art of the Moving Picture
Early 1900's book on how they viewed the motion picture. And how to create motion pictures.
Piano And Song
How to teach, how to learn and how to form a judgment of musical performances
Build a Poultry House and Run
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
Practical Instructions formation and Culture of the Tree Rose
Amongst the ornamental shrubs in cultivation, the rose has long borne the belle from its shape, permanence, the variety of its species, and the brilliancy of its colour;
Introduction Manual to Practical Mechanics
This 1914, 151 page digital book shows you all you need to know to set up a workshop of your own.
The Blowpipe
A System of Instruction in the Practical use of the Blowpipe
Play-Making
A Manual of Craftsmanship
by William Archer
Build a Rain Gauge - Plans and Instructions
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
The School of Recreation
Or a Guide to The Most Ingenious Exercises of various sports...
Self Launching Model Aeroplane
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
Snares or Moose Traps
Snares are among the most interesting and ingenious of the trap kind, besides being the most sure and efficacious.
A Catechism of the Steam Engine
In its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways adn agriculture
Steam Turbines Instructions
A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
Steel Traps and The Art of Trapping
Although the foregoing varieties often serve to good purpose, the Steel Trap is the principal device used by professional trappers, and possesses great advantages over all other traps.
Lessons in Swimming
Early 1900's practical manual on swimming for young and old. Taught by Prof. Frank Eugen Dalton. Instructor in Scientific Swimming at the Dalton Swimming School, and Originator of the Dalton Method.
Build a Target for Riffle Shooting
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit
A fully illustrated how to guide on taxidermy. With illustrations and step by step instructions on preparing and mounting birds, fish, reptiles etc for home, den or office decoration.
Build a Telegraph Apparatus
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
A Text Book of Assaying
For the use of those connected with mines
The Art of Deer Stalking
With accounts of the nature and habits of red deer, and a short description of the scotch forests...
Fencing - A Vintage Training Manual
This digital book was written in the mid 1700s by the most famous archer of the time at the academy of Toulouse. In this book you will find detailed explanation about the theory and practice of fencing with lots of information and illustrations - an interesting read.
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild Horses
A horse enthusiast will absolutely love this. It goes beyond training a horse, it teaches you how to 'read' the animal in order to train it and care for it.
The Art of War, by Sun Zu
“The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time.
The Gun; or a Treatise on Various Descriptions Small Fire-Arms
By William Greener, inventor of an improved method of firing cannon by percussion etc.
The shooters companion
A Description of pointers and setters, etc. as well as of those Birds which are the object of pursuit
Ancient Town Planning Directions
1913 Manual on how towns were planned in the ancient world. Includes illustrations of towns along with maps. Interesting read.
Traps for Feathered Game
Rare early 1900's book which gives instruction on how to set different types of traps especially suited for feathered game.
Traps for Large Game
Rare early 1900's digital book which shows how to build various traps for large game.
Watch and Clock Escapements
A complete 1904 manual on the practice of the lever, cylinder and chronometer escapements, together with a brief account of the origin and evolution of the escapement in horology. Contains full illustrations (about 200).
Build Wind Vanes with Dials - Plans and Instructions
This digital book was written in the early 1900s - a time where people used their hands to build things. Not only for practical use but for the sheer pleasure of just making it.
Guide to Wood Carving
An illustrated how to manual. A carpentry enthusiast will love this digital book - Rare 1900's instructions
Wood Joints Manual
How-to Create 15 Kinds of Wood Joints To Use in Any Kind of Project
The Working of Steel Manual
Annealing, heat treating and hardening of carbon and alloy steel. Published in 1922.
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