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The market assistant : containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn ; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits &c., &c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1867.
Call number: 280123
Creator: De Voe, Thomas F (1811-1892)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 23 cm
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