FORDSON TRACTOR: PARTS PRICE LIST
Detroit: Ford Motor Co., 1920. Early edition. Softcover. 24pp; illustrated throughout. Bound in printed green wrappers. 8.5" x 5.75". Slightly warped, tip of back cover chipped. More
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MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE [prospectus]:; List of Officers....
Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1858. First Edition. Softcover. 8pp. Original wrappers; old vertical crease. 9.5" x 5.75" This prospectus centers on the need for an ag school in Massachusetts in order to prepare young men for careers in farming, much as other colleges prepare them for other careers. "...It is..... More
FUNK'S G-HYBRID CORN DATA NOTEBOOK
Bloomington, Illinois: Funk Bros. Seed Co., 1954. First Edition. Softcover. 64pp, including 48 unused notebook pages. The text speaks to commercial growers: number and length of rows per acre; how to compute yields; how to correct for moisture content; computing capacity of cribs; capacity of silos; U.S. corn crop in..... More
FUNK'S G-HYBRID CORN DATA NOTEBOOK
Bloomington, Illinois: Funk Bros. Seed Co., 1949. First Edition. Softcover. 64pp, including 48 unused notebook pages. The text speaks to commercial growers: US corn crop for 1948; seed corn per acre; shelling percent of ear corn; how to compute yields; market corn requirements; data on fertilizer; etc. Bound in color-pictorial..... More
THE OLD ENGLISH FARMING BOOKS FROM FITZHERBERT TO TULL, 1523 TO 1730.
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: (v), 141 with title and author indices; 16 full-page illustrations. Bound in green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, pictorial dust wrapper. 8.75" x 5.75" More
PRODUCTIVE HORSE HUSBANDRY
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1920). Third Edition, Revised. Hardcover. pp: xvi,, 333 with index; 175 illustrations from photographs and drawings. Bound in decorated tan cloth, stampted in black and red. 8.25" x 5.5" This informative Lippincott farm manual includes mules, draft horses, and ponies--their care and breeding as well as their..... More
GEORGIA IMMIGRATION AND INVESTMENT BUREAU. PROPERTIES FOR SALE. Fourth Series. Farms, Water-Powers, Manufacturing Sites, Fruit and Stock Farms, Timber Lands, Etc., Etc.; Ex-Gov. W.J. Northen, Manager.
Atlanta, Ga. Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., 1897. First Edition. Softcover. 73pp. Begins with three pages by Northen on the opportunities and advantages of living in Georgia. Lists properties for sale by county, including location, land uses, houses, small businesses, and other features of each property. Bound in printed tan..... More
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. C.B. SELDEN AT MEADOW CREEK, W. VA., DATED 6-10-22
1922. Original manuscript. One page, octavo, written in pencil. Advises Selden that taxes on his 162 acres at Meadow Creek are now $1293, and that "this land must have been raised in assessment since last year...." Signed, J.W. Glover, Dep T, Andersonville, Va. On lined paper, 9.5" x 6", lightly..... More
WHERE TO EMIGRATE AND WHY: HOMES AND FORTUNES IN THE BOUNDLESS WEST AND THE SUNNY SOUTH...With a Complete History and Description of the Pacific Railroad.
Philadelphia: Peoples Publishing Company, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: 591; 16 plates of illustrations, 19 maps (three folding). Includes chapters and maps on the Pacific Railroad as well as individual states and territories: California/Nevada, Oregon, Washington Territory, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Eastern & Western Virginia, North & South Carolina..... More
THE COUNTRY'S CHOICE: GOLDEN RULE BABY CHICKS
Bucyrus, Ohio: Golden Rule Hatchery, (1943). First Edition. Softcover. 27pp; illustrated from photographs, printed throughout in black and red. Promotional and informative catalog, offering 20 breeds: Single Comb White Leghorns, Mottled Anconas, Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Buff Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes, Black Minorcas, Jersey White Giants, Mammoth White Pekin Ducklings..... More
AN ARGUMENT FOR A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. THE FARMER'S QUESTION; Being A Reply to the Cobden Club Tract entitled "The Western Farmer of America." By Jonathan B. Wise.
Cambridge: University Press: John Wilson and Son, 1880. First Edition. Softcover. 40pp; slip stating author's name is tipped in at front; errata slip at rear. Printed blue wrappers; back cover lacking. Neatly removed from a nonce volume. 8.5" x 5.5" More
BAKER RUN-IN-OIL WINDMILLS: Most Economical Power in the World.
Napoleon, Ohio: Heller-Aller Co., (1934). First Edition. Broadsheet, printed in black and red (8.5" x 10.5"), folds to pocket size; illustrations of windmills and engnes, with promotional text. "Oil once a year. Lasts a Life Time. Fits on any make Tower." More
BAKER RUN-IN-OIL WINDMILLS: Pumps Water in the Lightest Breeze.
Napoleon, Ohio: Heller-Aller Co., (1929). First Edition. Broadsheet, printed in black and red (8.5" x 10.5"), folds to pocket size; illustrations of windmills and engnes, with promotional text. More
THE AMERICAN RURAL HOME. Vol. VI, No. 36, September 2, 1876.
Rochester, NY: The Rural Home, 1876. First Edition. Softcover. 8pp, folio (19" x 14"); pictorial banner, woodcut views in text. Articles include: Among the Farmers of Monroe; Sanitary Effects of Sewaged Farming; Stock Husbandry; A Young Nursery; Rochester Business University; Days and Nights at Rice Lake; A Woman in the..... More
NO. 22, CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST OF REPAIR PARTS FOR THE McCORMICK-DEERING LINE OF TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS: Bumper Disk Harrows, Combination Harrows, Tractor Disk Harrows, Peg Tooth Harrows, Reversible Disk Harrows, Cultivators, Orchard Disk Harrows, Stalk Cutters, Spring Tooth Harrows, Field Cultivators, Culti-Packers and Pulverizers.
Chicago: International Harvester Company, (1924). First Edition. Softcover. 132pp; illustrations throughout the text. Bound in printed tan wrappers, thumb index. Covers smudged, thumb index dogeared. 9.5" x 6.75" More
COLTON'S TOWNSHIP MAP OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Compiled from the United Statees Surveys & other Authentic Sources.; Drawn by George W. Colton. Engraved by J.M. Atwood.
New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1855. 1855 edition. Original Cloth. Full-color engraved map, colored by hand, scrollwork border on all sides, opens to 25" x 29"; repairable separations at the intersections of several folds. Folds into red cloth case with embossed all-over design on both covers, gilt lettering on..... More
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER; BEING AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURE, BY SUBJECTING IT TO THE TEST OF RATIONAL PRINCIPLES. The Sixth Edition. To which is added, A Supplement, containing An Account of the Present State of Agriculture, and of the Improvements Recently Introduced.
Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute... 1815. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. pp: (iv), 555, (3) ads; three engaved plates. Chapters include: Instruments of Husbandry (plow, brake, harrow, roller, fanner); Farm Cattle and Carriages (horses, oxen, breeding cattle, wheel carriages; Farm Offices; Culture of Plants for Food; Rotation of Crops; Feeding Farm..... More
THE FARMER'S LIGHTHOUSE. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture, the only Profitable Mode of Tilling the Soil.
Boston: Higgins and Bradley, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. 108pp; occasional illustrations in the text. Deals with a wide variety of fertilizers from manures and animal products to woolen rags. Bound in blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine. 6" x 3.75". Light wear to spine ends; spotty foxing to endpapers, text block..... More
LANCASTER LEAF TOBACCO CASE. Promotional letter on company letterhead.
Lancaster, PA: 1890. Original document. 2pp, printed in green on ivory stock. Promotes the Lancaster Patent Tobacco Case as the most economical way of shipping tobacco. This letter tells in detail how the cases are made and why tobacco growers should use them. 11" x 8.5" More
KANSAS SHORTHORNS: A History of the Breed in the State from 1857 to 1920.
Iola, Kansas: Laude Printing Co., 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 647pp; frontispiece, full-page and text illustrations from photographs. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering; spine color faded. 8" x 5.5" [Adams, Rampaging Herd 1310.]. More
Song sheet: LOW BACK'D CAR
Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, circa 1850s. Original edition. Contains four verses, in part: "When first I saw sweet Peggy, / 'Twas on a Market Day, / A low Back'd Car she drove and sat, / Upon a tuft of hay...." Typographic ornamental border. 9.75" x 5.75" [Wolf, American Song Sheets..... More
THE FARMER'S AND EMIGRANT'S HAND-BOOK: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE GUIDE FOR THE FARMER AND THE EMIGRANT. Comprising the Clearing of Forest and Prairie Land--Gardening--Farming Generally--Farriery--Cookery--and the Prevention and Cure of Diseases.
new York / Philadelphia: D. Appleton / Geo. S. Appleton, 1845. Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. pp: 492 with index, (34) publisher's ads. Bound in modern red linen, printed paper spine label. 7.75" x 4.5" More
1896 HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES IN A NOTEBOOK ADVERTISING ROYAL STOCK FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS & SHEEP.
Philadelphia: Mechling Bro's Manuf'g Co., 1896. 1st Edition. Soft cover. (36)pp. The handwritten entries occupy six or seven pages, and include: accounts receivable from various members of the South family (1896); debits to the estate of James South, Sr. and "airs" for life insurance, reassessment, mortgage, &c.; expenses on behalf..... More
MIDDLEBROOK'S ALMANACK FOR...1835....
Bridgeport, CT: Josiah B. Baldwin, 1834. First Edition. Softcover. 24pp; woodcut eagle on cover, vignette scenes for each month. Dog-eared and lightly edge-chipped. Old notations inked in margins of some calendar pages, for example: "Inez came here to work ... Elias went from here ... Pardee came home ... Paid..... More
MM TRACTOR PLOWS: Lighter Draft - Better Scouring - Higher Lift - More Clearance [cover title].
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Minneapolis-Moline, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. 8pp quarto; illustrated throughout in colors. Detailed descriptions and promotional text. 12" x 9". Folds once to octavo size. "Farmers in all sections of the country are changing to the MM Hi-Klearance tractor plows...." More