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 about THE OLD ENGLISH FARMING BOOKS FROM FITZHERBERT TO TULL, 1523 TO 1730
1846-1848. Original manuscripts. Softcover. Three volumes in all, about 75pp written in a readable hand, most in ink, a few in pencil. Inside the cover of the first volume, it is noted that Charles H. Holland was Highway Surveyor, Giles Leach was School Superintendent, and Hanson Bedie was Tax Collector... More about HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT BOOKS AND TRAVEL NOTES KEPT BY THIS LAWYER AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AT...
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Eureka, California: Lambert & McKeehan, Printers, 1915. First Edition. Softcover. 32pp; 12 full-page and 8 half-page b&w views from photographs, four views in color on rectos and versos of both covers. Topics in the text include: location, streams, harbors, lands, soil, climate, healthfulness, population, transportation, commerce, lumbering, farming, horticulture, dairying... More about HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA [LAND PROMOTION
Chicago: Cole Mfg Co., 1903. First Edition. Softcover. 16pp; illustrations throughout the text. Contains detailed descriptions and prices of a wide variety of stoves for burning soft coal, slack, siftings, lignitz, hard coal, coke, wood, and corn cobs. Bound in pictorial red wrappers; damped, with traces of red on lower... More about COLE'S ORIGINAL HEATERS FROM CHICAGO: 1903 Price List
Medina, Ohio: A.I. Root Co., 1903. First Edition. Softcover. 37pp; illustrations in the text. Contains detailed descriptions and prices of many different forms of hives, along with honey boxes, wax extractors, honey extractors, honey knives, smokers, honey jars and cans, beekeeping books, live bees and queens, &c. Bound in pictorial..... More about BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES: Branch Office, Syracuse, N.Y
1896. Original document. Printed form, accomplished by hand. signed by George W. Whyte, Public Trustee, and by Leonard McSmith, Notary Public, with embossed seal and revenue stamp. 17" x 11", folds to 8.5" x 3.75", docketed on cover. More about RELEASE OF DEED OF TRUST FOR EMMA G. EDWARDS AND C.A. EDWARDS, COVERING THEIR HOUSE AND LOT IN...
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Philadelphia: Philadelphia Bird Food Co., 1925. Softcover. (120)pp; color frontispiece, full-page and text illustrations in black & white, including various birds, eight pages of cages, etc. Bound in pictorial yellow wrappers. 6" x 4.75". Laid in is a one-page list of prices for live birds and cages. More about cover title] No. 1, FANCIERS' HAND BOOKS. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF CAGE BIRDS: How to Breed the...
Des Moines.Iowa: Kenyon Company Map Makers, 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Full-color map, opens to 18.5" x 32", including margins. Place-name index, census figures, shipping & postal guide on verso. Folds into printed, red card covers, 5.5" x 3". Printed inside front cover: "Don't waste time looking at poor land...come to... More about MAP OF MINNESOTA: TRAVERSE COUNTY, THE GARDEN SPOT OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. Compliments of...
Worcester [MA]: Printed by Manning & Trumbull, 1819. First Edition. 30pp. Lincoln extolls the art of husbandry, the worth of manual labor, and the pursuit of agriculture. This pamphlet includes a five-page list of prizes awarded by the Judges on Working Oxen, the Judges on Neat Stock & Swine, the... More about ADDRESS, DELIVERED BEFORE THE WORCESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, OCTOBER 7, 1819: Being their...
Worcester [MA]: Charles Griffin, Printer, 1827. First Edition. 16pp. Centers on the importance of agriculture and rural economy. Includes a two-page list of prizes awarded by the Committee on Neat Stock, the Committee on Fat Cattle & Milch Cows, the Committee on Working Oxen, the Committee on Manufactures of Wool... More about ADDRESS, DELIVERED BEFORE THE WORCESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, OCTOBER 12, 1825: Being their...
Philadelphia: John Trenwith, 1876. Original photographs. One card containing two albumen images of the Agricultural Hall. Labeled "Centennial Views, Phila. - New Excelsior Series." On the verso: "Manufactured by John Trenwith, Stationer and News Dealer, No. 608 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia." 3.5" x 7" to fit into a stereoscope for viewing... More about STEREOSCOPIC VIEW CARD SHOWING AGRICULTURAL HALL, LOOKING EAST, A LARGE WINDMILL IN THE FOREGROUND
Burlington, Iowa: Egbert, Fidlar, & Chambers, Printers, 1896. First Edition. Softcover. 51pp; frontispiece portrait, tissue guard; other illustrations from portraits and views, one full-page. Bound in printed wrappers; two chips from rear cover, else clean and tight. 9" x 5.75" More about WHO MADE IOWA? An Address Delivered on "Pioneer and Old Settlers' Day," at the...
Philadelphia: American Iron and Steel Ass'n, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. 28pp. Contents: The cost of transportation of western farm products; The price of steel rails; The tariff on wool and woolens; The tariff on cotton goods; The dairymen and the tariff; A tariff reminiscence; The duty on cotton ties; Wages... More about A COLLECTION OF FRESH FACTS, CONCERNING THE EFFECTS OF THE PROTECTIVE POLICY ON THE COST OF...
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 about AN ARGUMENT FOR A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. THE FARMER'S QUESTION; Being A Reply to the Cobden Club...
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1844. First Separate Edition. Softcover. 16pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. First and final pages toned. 8.25" x 5.5" Colton advocates making public lands affordable for settlers and farmers. [American Imprints 44-1573.]. More about THE PUBLIC LANDS. By Junius.; The Junius Tracts, No. VIII. (May, 1844
New York: Chicopee Guano Co., 1894. First Edition. 8pp, printed on one foldout leaf of tan stock. Contains a detailed introduction to the Chicopee fertilizers, with details and prices of their brands: A-1; Farmers' Reliable; Potato Grower; Corn and Wheat Mixture; Fruit and Vine Success; Hope Manure. Folds to 6"... More about ALWAYS RELIABLE. THE CHICOPEE HIGH-GRADE FERTILIZERS FOR ALL CROPS
London: Vanity Fair, 1889. First Edition. Full-color print, signed "Lib", chromolithographed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, and published as Men of the Day, No. 437, in the August 24, 1889 issue of "Vanity Fair". Image is 12.25" x 7.5". Includes the leaf of biographical text. More about MAJOR E.H. EGERTON, OFFICIAL HANDICAPPER TO THE JOCKEY CLUB
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 about KANSAS SHORTHORNS: A History of the Breed in the State from 1857 to 1920
1893. Original manuscript. 123 pages of legible entries, written in pencil, three entries per page. Preceded by 38pp of printed matter, including weight, shirt and shoe sizes. Diary entries are followed by 36pp labeled "accounts," although 15 of those pages contain additions to the diary, a list of books read... More about 1893 HANDWRITTEN DIARY, KEPT BY THIS SCHOOLGIRL IN PROCTORSVILLE, WINDSOR COUNTY, VERMONT
Glasgow & London: Blackie and Son, 1855. First issued 1855. Hardcover. Three volumes, thick octavo (9.75" x 6.75"). pp:1,172; 52 plates, some folding; illustrations in the text. Bound in 3/4 calf and patterned boards, marbled endpapers and edges, ribbed spines, leather labels. Book ticket of A&W Easton, Booksellers, Stationers and... More about A CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC; in which the Theory, the Art, and the...
Santa Rosa, California: Luther Burbank Society, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. 32pp; seven color plates. Bound in pictorial tan wrappers. 6" x 4.5". Laid in is small broadside (9" x 5.75"), reprinting a February 2, 1914 editorial from the "Omaha News," declaiming "eugenist faddists" and praising Luther Burbank's perfection of the... More about START THE BOY RIGHT
Santa Rosa, California: Luther Burbank Society, 1913. First Edition. Softcover. 16pp; four color plates, including centerfold. Bound in pictorial tan wrappers. 6" x 4.5" [WorldCat locates only the Huntington and UC-Berkeley holdings of this eugenics title.]. More about GIVE THE BOY HIS CHANCE
Pittsburgh, PA: Axtell, Bush & Co., [1898]. Printed on card stock (6.25" x 3.75") in red and blue, featuring an Uncle Sam figure on the recto and a waving American flag on the verso. Uncle Sam carries a valise labeled "National Stockman and Farmer." Text in part: "How d'ye do!... More about INDEPENDENCE-DAY-THEMED ADVERTISING CARD FOR THE "NATIONAL STOCKMAN AND FARMER"
Rockford, Illinois: R.H. Shumway, Seedsman, [1920s?]. Early edition. Softcover. 60pp; few illustrations from photographs, planting-zone map. Detailed guide to the culture of vegetables and fruits, arranged alphabetically. Bound in pictorial tan wrappers. 7" x 5" Pioneer American Seedsmen, established in 1870. More about SHUMWAY'S HANDY CULTURE BOOK AND CANNING RECIPES
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[Chicago]: [Rand, McNally & Co.], (1896). First Edition. Softcover. 48pp; frontispiece and 17 other illustrations from photographs, map (7"x7"). Bound in pictorial cream wrappers, cover picture, red lettering. Small dampmark at foot of spine, otherwise in fine condition. 7" x 4.5" With Andrew McNally as President, and E.D. Neff as... More about THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN IN CALIFORNIA [cover title