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

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

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A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry, with a Description of the Best Varieties....
INCLUDES A DISCUSSION OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CRANBERRY AND THE MANY MARKETS FOR SELLING THE CROP

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

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Advantages of Flyer’s Butter Working and Labor Saving Churn. Patented July 27, 1852. Orsamus...
“THIS CHURN IS VERY SIMPLE IN ITS CONSTRUCTION AND USE, AND IS SOLD AT LESS PRICES THAN MOST KINDS OF PATENT CHURNS OF EQUAL CAPACITY”

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

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A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula,...
THOMAS HOGG, THE FLORIST FROM PADDINGTON GREEN

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

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Economy of Agriculture. Being a Series of Compendious Essays on Different Branches of Farming....
"BRIGHT SPRING COMES AND BLOSSOMS AND SEEMS BUT A DAY, WARM SUMMER THEN RIPENS THE BLOSSOMS OF MAY; RICH AUTUMN THOUGH LOADED, YET MAKES NO DELAY, COLD WINTER ADVANCES AND PASSES AWAY"

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

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

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

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The Code of Agriculture: Including Observations on Gardens, Orchards, Woods, and Plantations. ...
A SPECIAL COPY IN CONTEMPORARY TREE CALF BINDING

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

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

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

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