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39541 — SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF USEFUL ARTS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF USEFUL ARTS IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. Albany: John Barber 1807. 8vo. Contemporary boards. iv iv 5-236 iii pages 7 engraved plates including 1 folding. First edition. Rink 20. The first agricultural association in the state of New York was the "Society the Promotion of Agriculture Arts and Manufactures" organized in New York C in 1791. It was succeeded by this society in 1804 and this is the first vol of their transactions. Butter butter churns protractors cleaning casks weights and measures manure the introduction of Spanish sheep cultivation hemp Indian corn smut in wheat disease in flax culture of the grape etc. with handsome plates. Here are a number of contributions by Chancellor Rober R. Livingston several on merino sheep with a folding plate as well as a description and plate of "A Floating Battery on a new construction by the l Abraham Bloodgood." The rotating battery involved substantially the principa that would be used in the turret in Erickson's Civil War Monitor. Ownership signature "Cuyler Reynolds Member Albany." Reynolds 1866-1934 was a journalist author historian and antiquarian librarian. He was the first curator of the Albany Institute of Art. Professionally rebacked with new printed label else very good. unknown books