100+ French Cabaret Girls - Vintage Postcard Album

"This book is truly offal!"

"A load of steaming tripe!"

"The strangest recipe collection I've ever read - wonderful fun!"

This extraordinary recipe book will make your eyes water, and, possibly, your mouth! Even if you're dubious about the Victorian culinary delights of scrapple or head-cheese, it makes a highly entertaining and often humorous read. Learn how our not-so distant ancestors found a use for just about every part of the cow, sheep, and pig, plus a long list of more unusual species... Plenty of ideas for jaded dinner party hosts with demanding guests! Sample pages...

This cookery compilation makes a great novelty gift for epicures and gourmets, a wonderful talking-point for the bookshelf, but also contains invaluable, comprehensive reference material for serious cooks who want to stretch their horizons, for game hunters, and for survivalists in the backwoods. When the internet goes down, where else are you going to look to find out how to skin skunk or eel, make a squirrel pie, or bear hams? You'll discover hundreds of similar, strange recipes here!

They ate heartily in the Bad Old Days - do you have the stomach to try their fare? Here's how to make your own haggis, chitterlings, fagots, black pudding, prepare sweetbreads... plus Peculiar Puddings, Surprising Soups, Sickroom Feasts, Fowl Ideas, plus the proper way to serve molluscs, reptiles and amphibians... illustrated with selected diagrams and engravings from the original texts. Includes exhaustive summary list of over 750 recipes in the book! 210 pages, 8.5" x 11".

See some of the best advice from Brains and Brawn...!!   Order it in paperback for just $24.95!

Amazing Vintage Medical Devices, Ads & Illustrations - PDF Ebook / Slideshow Album

150+ Ethnic Folk Costumes - Vintage Photo Album

A DVD video slideshow of gorgeous oriental girls from yesteryear, courtesans, belly dancers, with random artistic transition effects between the images. The show lasts over an hour - five hundred vintage photo and postcard images from the harems and souks of North Africa, Arabia and the Middle East - many in beautiful hand-tinted color (includes some risqué or topless shots), set to tribal atmosphere backing music. Fascinating to browse, Play it on your TV or computer screen. (Super resolution NTSC quality images.) 

Also includes a few snapshot tasters for some of our other vintage photo titles. Great gift for postcard collectors, fans of vintage glamour and erotica... Great mood setter for parties, stores, events... !

A digital scrapbook of 150 early photo portraits and dramatic scenes featuring legendary Edwardian and Victorian female stars of opera, theatre, silent screen.... Josephine Baker, Mata Hari, Lily Langtry, Cavalieri, Otero, Cléo de Merode, Geraldine Farrar, Marie Studholme, Gaby Deslys, Lily Damita - also includes a large number of images of famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Many of these images are taken from early picture postcards, some autographed, which acted as souvenirs and promotional publicity materials.

This unusual and highly collectible photo album includes bonus free sample pages from our sister titles. In PDF ebook format, with optional rolling slideshow functionality! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver. Enjoy a night at the theatre on your computer, anytime and anywhere! Of interest to all collectors of theatrical nostalgia. Revised edition improved and extended, Feb 2010!

A virtual museum gallery of vintage photos and old picture postcards from around the world - tribal natives from Africa, Asia, Japan, Oceania and the Americas, revealing fascinating traditional body art : ritual tattoos and scarification. Male and female portraits, voodoo fetish cultists, facial and corporal tattoos, ink dyes and skin designs, veritable visual curiosa. 

Scores of images in this collection, makes a fascinating collectors' item for all fans of early photography, armchair ethnology and anthropology! With mottled "parchment paper" background effect for an authentic vintage scrapbook look-and-feel. Also includes tasters from some of our other recent vintage photo series titles! This ebook edition is downloadable in PDF format for Acrobat Reader.

Download it now for just $4.99....

From the curious backwaters and dead ends of science, we proudly present some of the brilliantly wacky ideas that didn't quite make it! From the drawing board and think tank, to File 13, via the odd strange or failed experiment... you can savor the eureka moment of these crackpot concepts in this handpicked selection of rare & forgotten images from the 19th century archives and abandoned patent vaults! 

Evolutionary dead ends of technology and scientific red herrings, plus some eccentric anachronisms - just too far ahead of their time - these inspired and ingenious inventions will amuse, and maybe inspire you! Who could have predicted that there would be no market for the family velocipe but that the pocket machine gun, automatic teller and electric stair lift would eventually succeed!