Georgie

1843 · WRCAM54035 — Augusta Ga 1843. 4208pp. Contemporary black morocco and marbled boards rebacked in 20th-century buckram. Boards quite rubbed edges worn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown one-fourth of titlepage lacking filled with blank paper with seven letters supplied in manuscript facsimile some toning and foxing ink stain to bottom margin of some leaves top corner of last leaf torn costing about twelve lines of text in the third column. Good. The entire first year run of this rare bi- weekly southern periodical published in Georgia from 1843 until the 1880s when it acquired other periodicals and changed its name. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR was an important southern agricultural manual that unlike many of its contemporaries was published throughout the Civil War though it moved from Augusta then to Athens after the Civil War and then finally to Atlanta. The subtitle describes the work and its goal: "a Semi-monthly Journal devoted to Southern agriculture designed to improve the mind and elevate the character of the tillers of the soil and to introduce a more enlightened system of culture." Present here are the first twenty-six issues of the periodical each 8pp. each preceded by the titlepage and an Index. Individual issues of the magazine are scarce but the entire first year is positively rare. SABIN 88334. hardcover books