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Text in centre framed by illustrations of flowers, ribbons and coins, colours of green, red, blue, yellow and white. 

1000 things worth knowing

Date1897
Names
FormatBook
Notes
Advertising medium for Eclipse Soap
Contains [8] page illustrated insertion, "Where Eclipse soap is made."
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
Medium
Manufacturers’ catalogs
DimensionsCover size: 22 cm x 14 cm (8 11/16 in. x 5 1/2 in.)
Language
CollectionSpecial Collections in the Arts
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object Number37131055165898D
Catalogue Record for Print Book https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=1854310
Miscellanea ex diuersis historiographis, oratoribus, & poetis diligenti admod? labore excerpta : quibus varij hominum mores, exempla, proprietates, nomenclature? q[ue] brutor?, aui?, piscium, arbor?, syluarum, montium, fluuiorum, fontium, lacuu, region? deniq[ue] contin?tur : his & deor? quæ aut antiquitate, aut raritate, aut scitu digna videbantur adiecta s?t
Miscellanea ex diuersis historiographis, oratoribus, & poetis diligenti admod? labore excerpta : quibus varij hominum mores, exempla, proprietates, nomenclature? q[ue] brutor?, aui?, piscium, arbor?, syluarum, montium, fluuiorum, fontium, lacuu, region? deniq[ue] contin?tur : his & deor? quæ aut antiquitate, aut raritate, aut scitu digna videbantur adiecta s?t
Gourmont, Jean de, active 1506-1522
1519
General knowledge made easy, or, The childs first step : to mechanics, mineralogy, agriculture. sculpture, architecture, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, chemistry, painting, drawing, mythology, commerce, algebra, electricity, astronomy, navigation, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry, religion, geometry, rhetoric, mathematics, optics, jurisprudence, arithmetic : also easy descriptions of clouds -- rain -- snow -- dew -- hail -- tides -- earthquakes -- thunder -- lightning -- &c. &c
General knowledge made easy, or, The childs first step : to mechanics, mineralogy, agriculture. sculpture, architecture, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, chemistry, painting, drawing, mythology, commerce, algebra, electricity, astronomy, navigation, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry, religion, geometry, rhetoric, mathematics, optics, jurisprudence, arithmetic : also easy descriptions of clouds -- rain -- snow -- dew -- hail -- tides -- earthquakes -- thunder -- lightning -- &c. &c
Carvalho, David
1830
Fifth book of lessons for the use of schools
Fifth book of lessons for the use of schools
R. & A. Miller
1855
Cyclopaedia of history & geography, being a dictionary of historical & geographical antonomasias, origin of sects
Cyclopaedia of history & geography, being a dictionary of historical & geographical antonomasias, origin of sects
Borthwick, J. Douglas (John Douglas), 1832-1912
1859
Dr. Chase's new receipt book, or, Information for everybody. The life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entir(...)
Dr. Chase's new receipt book, or, Information for everybody. The life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entir(...)
Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885
1889
A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge : for the use of schools and students : with several hundred engravings in wood
A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge : for the use of schools and students : with several hundred engravings in wood
A. & R. Spottiswoode
BI PHI||1864291
A first or mother's dictionary for children : containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation : simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with occasional remarks : the whole adapted to the capacities of younger pupils
A first or mother's dictionary for children : containing upwards of three thousand eight hundred words which occur most frequently in books and conversation : simply and familiarly explained, and interspersed throughout with occasional remarks : the whole adapted to the capacities of younger pupils
Adlard, James
1815
Magnetic Soap
Magnetic Soap
approx 1890
Ammonia electric soap
Ammonia electric soap
Clark and Company
Approximately 1892
A young girl in a white dress and a black top hat is clutching a closed red umbrella
Ammonia soap
W.A. Bradshaw & Company
1895
Rodger, Maclay & Co.'s soaps
Rodger, Maclay & Co.'s soaps
Rodger, Maclay & Co.
1880?
Canada's hope is Comfort Soap
Canada's hope is Comfort Soap
Pugsley, Dingman Company Limited
Approximately 1910