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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
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
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
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
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
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
Middleborough, Plymouth County, 1839-47. 8vo. 185 x 155 mm., [6 x 7 ¼ inches] .Manuscript in ink. 89 pp. Marbled boards, calf spine. Cover and corner wear, some cover separation, few pages torn. Text written in legible hand. Accounts of a farmer from the town of Middleborough which show entries..... More
![Item #472 McCormick's Prize Harvesters, Mowers and Reapers. Chicago: Goodman & Donnelley, [1868]....](/pictures/thumb/472.jpg?v=1586627559)
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
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
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
Rochester, Massachusetts. 1843-1856. Folio. 330 x 210 mm., [13 x 9 inches]. Manuscript in ink and pencil. 5 pp. Bound in paper wrappers; a few loose receipts. Index of customer names at front of ledger. Paper stock brown with age and with some light foxing, but sound. Rare account book..... More
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
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
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
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
Ulysses, New York: 1847-50. Folio. 320 x 210 mm., [13 x 8 ½ inches]. Manuscript in ink. 461 pp. Contemporary reverse sheep binding; worn but sound. Text block tight and handwriting very legible. This is an unusually comprehensive ledger belonging to the W.C. Woodworth Company of Ulysses, New York. The..... More
