American Pocket Library of Useful Knowledge
AMERICAN
POCKET
LIBRARY
THE
AMERICAN
POCKET LIBRARY
OF
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
COMPILED BY THOMAS C. CLARKE, PHILADELPHIA.
SECOND EDITION.
GRIFFITH & SIMON,
No. 188, North Third St. and No. 384, North Second St.
PHILADELPHIA.
George Washington.
John Adams.
THE
AMERICAN
POCKET LIBRARY
National Gallery and Patent Office at Washington.–Principal Hall 273 feet long, 63 feet wide, and 30 feet high.
OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
COMPILED BY THOMAS C. CLARKE, PHILADELPHIA.
Price 50 Cents.
Thomas Jefferson.
James Monroe.
1841.
Engravings by T. H. Mumford.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by Thomas C. Clarke,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Stereotyped by J. Fagan, 19 St. James Street.
The small type used gives matter equal to five hundred pages of letter paper manuscript, while larger type would greatly increase the size and price. The reading is less trying to the eyes than most newspapers are, while the One Thousand receipts of useful knowledge are preserved in a neat and convenient form.
James Madison.
John Quincy Adams.
AMERICAN POCKET LIBRARY
OF
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE;
CONTAINING
William Henry Harrison.
| Agriculture. | U. S. |
| Flowers. | Constitution. |
| Birds. | Phrenology. |
| Health. | Canals and |
| Law. | Rail-Roads |
| Education. | Dentistry. |
| Silk and Sugar | Religion. |
| Culture. | Army.–Navy. |
| Temrperance. | Cookery. |
| Statistics. | &c., &c., &c. |
WITH UPWARDS OF 1000 VALUABLE RECEIPTS.
Andrew Jackson.
Martin Van Buren.