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Singerman ID#supp1640

The Market Book. Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets in the Cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. With a brief Description of every Article of Human Food sold therein. The Introduction of Cattle in America and Notices of Many Remarkable Specimens. ... In Two Volumes.

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Singerman ID#supp1640

De Voe, Thomas F. The Market Book. Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets in the Cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. With a brief Description of every Article of Human Food sold therein. The Introduction of Cattle in America and Notices of Many Remarkable Specimens. ... In Two Volumes. New York: Printed for the author, 1862. 621 p.

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In vol. 1, the only volume to appear: For Asser Levy (died 1682), butcher and a tavern-keeper in New York, see pp. 45-47 passim, 50, 55, 242. There are additional Jewish references on pp. 202 (a butcher is punished for affixing false Jewish seals on meat), 257, 270. Electrotyped by Wm. Denter; Printed by Hall, Clayton & Medole.