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The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North...

Byrd, William

The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A.D. 1733, and a Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published.

Petersburg, VA: Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1841. 8vo. iv,143,[1] pp. Contemporary cloth backed plain boards, most of cloth spine gone. Sound. Lightly foxed throughout. Inscribed by the co-publisher, Edmund Ruffin, to W[illiam] H[enry] Ruffner dated 1849. First edition. Posthumously published writings of William Byrd II (1635-1744), prominent Virginia planter..... More

Price: $450.00

Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture on the Diseases of Cattle in the United States. Color...

Color Printing

Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture on the Diseases of Cattle in the United States

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871. 4to. 290 x 230 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [4], 205 pp. Illustrated with 7 chromolithographic plates, 6 micro photographs and one lithograph. Bound in contemporary pebbled morocco spine and tips over marbled paper boards; edges rubbed, but a sound and attractive copy. First illustrated..... More

Price: $300.00

A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry, with a Description of the Best Varieties....

Eastwood, B.

A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry, with a Description of the Best Varieties

New York: C. M. Saxton & Co., Agricultural Book Publishers, 1857. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches]. 120 pp., plus 12 pp. ads. Lithographic frontispiece and 11 plates. Original brown publisher’s cloth; spine faded, text lightly foxed, ex-library copy. Lithographic title-page with date of..... More

Price: $100.00

Advantages of Flyer’s Butter Working and Labor Saving Churn. Patented July 27, 1852. Orsamus...

Flyer, Orsamus R.

Advantages of Flyer’s Butter Working and Labor Saving Churn. Patented July 27, 1852.

Brattleboro, Vt. Hall & Holmes Proprietors of the Patent, 1853. Folio. 345 x 269 mm., [13 ¾ x 10 ¼ inches]. 4 pp. Text within decorative typographical border. Folded. Very good condition. Advertising sheet touting the benefits of a newly patented butter and cream churn, designed by Orsamus R...... More

Price: $200.00

The Small Fruit Culturist. Beautifully Illustrated. Andrew. S. Fuller

Fuller, Andrew. S.

The Small Fruit Culturist. Beautifully Illustrated.

New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1867. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm., [7 ½ x 5 inches]. 276 pp., plus 12 pp. ads. Illustrated with over one-hundred woodcuts. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt image of a stem of berries on upper board, title gilt in copper ink on spine. Near Fine..... More

Price: $75.00

A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula,...

Hogg, Thomas.

A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Tilip, Hyacinth, Rose, and other flowers. Including a Dissertation on Soils and Manures, and Containing Catalogues of the Finest and most Esteemed Varieties of Each Flower.

London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., (1832). 8vo. 190 x 110 mm., [7 ½ x 4 ½ inches]. xxxi, 275 pp. plus 2pp. ads. Illustrated with six color plates. Contemporary cloth; expertly rebacked preserving spine, new endpapers. One plate loose in text. Fifth edition with additions. With faults an attractive copy..... More

Price: $200.00

Economy of Agriculture. Being a Series of Compendious Essays on Different Branches of Farming....

Lloyd, David

Economy of Agriculture. Being a Series of Compendious Essays on Different Branches of Farming.

Germantown, Pa. P. R. Freas & Co., Printers, 1832. 12mo. 160 x 120 mm., [6 ¼ x 4 inches]. 120 pp. Contemporary red leather backed marbled paper boards, leather tips; spine faded brown and rubbed, light foxing throughout, but a sound and attractive copy. Lloyd’s farming manual is filled..... More

Price: $200.00

Manuscript Account Book, written in both German & English. Manuscript Account Book, Isaac Weaver

(Manuscript Account Book). Weaver, Isaac

Manuscript Account Book, written in both German & English

Lancaster County, Pa. 1825-1838. Folio. 320 x 200 mm., [12 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches]. 36pp. Contemporary decorative wallpaper cover with showing wear at edges and spine; large piece of decorative paper worn away on upper wrappers. Paper stock brown with age, first two preliminary pages torn with loss of..... More

Price: $1,650.00

McCormick's Prize Harvesters, Mowers and Reapers. Chicago: Goodman & Donnelley, [1868]. C. H....

McCormick, C.H. & Bros.

McCormick's Prize Harvesters, Mowers and Reapers. Chicago: Goodman & Donnelley, [1868].

Chicago: McCormick, C.H. & Bros. 1868. 8vo. 235 x 150 mm., [9 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. 23, [1] pp., including wraps. Illustrated with 4 full-page and 1 half-page woodcuts of mowers in use. Orig. printed & pictorial wraps. Illustration of McCormick's Chicago factory complex on back wrap; image of..... More

Price: $325.00

Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England in the Years 1850-51. Parts I and II. Frederic...

(Olmsted, Frederic Law)

Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England in the Years 1850-51. Parts I and II

New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1852. Two volumes. 8vo. 190 x 125 mm. (7 1/2 x 5 inches). [iv], 192 pp.; [iv], 246 pp. Frontispiece piece vignette in volume one, woodcut image on title-page of volume two and 11 woodcuts in the text. Made-up set with, both volumes..... More

Price: $175.00

The Farmers’ Land-Measurer, or Pocket Companion, Showing, at one view, the Content of any Piece...

Pedder, John

The Farmers’ Land-Measurer, or Pocket Companion, Showing, at one view, the Content of any Piece of Land from Dimensions Taken in Yards; With a Set of Useful Agricultural Tables.

Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1849. 12mo. 160 x 100 mm., [6 ¼ x 4 inches]. 144 pp. Bound in contemporary sheep, rubbed, simple leather repair to lower quarter of the spine; lightly foxed. Originally published in 1842, Pedder’s book went through numerous editions well into the 1860’s. It..... More

Price: $100.00

Rational Horse-Shoeing. With Illustrations. By Wildair. John E. Russell

(Russell, John E.)

Rational Horse-Shoeing. With Illustrations. By Wildair.

New York: Wynkoop and Hallenbeck, 1873. 8vo. 165 x 120 mm., [6 12 x 4 ¾ inches]. 49 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Bound in green publisher’s cloth, title in gilt on upper board, paper label on spine with title in ink. Very good copy, with a...... More

Price: $175.00

The Code of Agriculture: Including Observations on Gardens, Orchards, Woods, and Plantations. ...

Sinclair, John

The Code of Agriculture: Including Observations on Gardens, Orchards, Woods, and Plantations. First American Edition with Notes.

Hartford: Printed for Hudson and Co., and Cooke and Hale, 1818. 8vo. 220 x 135 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches]. viii, [3]-424 pp. Illustrated with eight full-page plates. Contemporary tree calf, red leather label; binding lightly rubbed, but in excellent condition. First American edition published immediately after..... More

Price: $450.00

Register of the Weather in Hingham, Massachusetts on the Plain , One Mile from the Sea. Number 1....

Sprague, Hosea

Register of the Weather in Hingham, Massachusetts on the Plain , One Mile from the Sea. Number 1.

Hingham, Massachusetts: Hosea Sprague, 1838. Small 4to. 165 x 125 mm., (6 ½ x 5 inches). 32 leaves with various pagination (see below). Title-page vignette, woodcuts of two thermometers, three woodcut vignettes in text. Bound in original brown cloth; some minor staining to the binding, light browning to the text..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction. E. G. Squier

Squier, E. G.

Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction.

New York: Scribner & Co., 1861. . 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., (9 x 6 inches). 64 pp. Illustrated with 16 lithographic plates and one image bound-in from the R. H. Allen Company which illustrates the machinery used to separate the fiber from the leaves of tropical plants. Original publisher's..... More

Price: $475.00

A Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees. With numerous illustrations drawn...

Trimble, Isaac P.

A Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees. With numerous illustrations drawn from nature by Hockstein, under the immediate supervision of the author.

New York: William Wood & Company, 1865. 4to. 290 x 225 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [ix]-xvii, [19]-139 pp. (collates per the copy at Princeton). 11 full-page lithographic plates, 9 of which are printed in colored. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt on upper board and in blind on lower..... More

Price: $500.00

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