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6453Seven engraved plates several folding. viii 177 pp. Large 4to early 19th-cent. half-calf & marbled boards some scuffing flat spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by W. Bulmer for G. Nicol et al. 1795. First edition of the Board of Agriculture's famous report on the potato. During the final four decades of the 18th century Britain experienced a number of corn harvest failures with a resulting rise in the price of wheat. The Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce the Board of Agriculture and various private individuals advocated the adoption of the potato as a substitute for wheat and great efforts were made to popularize the cultivation of this crop. "This work illustrated with seven plates is outstanding for its series of well-informed articles on the subject concerned. Potatoes are here considered for their use in feeding cattle and also as a food for human consumption."-Henrey II pp. 613-14 & no. 461. Nice copy lacking leaf with table of contents clearly never bound in. Inscribed on the half-title: "Presented by Joseph Sabine Esq. 22d February 1820." Sabine 1770-1837 natural historian and F.R.S. was one of the original fellows of the Linnean Society honorary secretary of the Horticultural Society and active in the work of the Zoological Society. Stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust on front and rear paste-downs. hardcover books
177729105Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Bell. 1777. 6 159 1 pp plus folding plate outer blank corner torn. Pages 97-104 misnumbered 79-86 as issued. Printed on pale blue paper. Lacking the half title disbound with some loosening. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> Several of these "Essays are translated from a Periodical Work published at Paris under the Title of Journal Oeconomique the Translation being undertaken By Doctor Tobias Smollett an Author of great Reputation." This is the book's first edition and the only printing recorded on OCLC. The title describes the subjects covered: cultivating raising and dressing flax and hemp; paper making; bleaching linen; "An account of the Nettle Thread;" "A remedy against Rottenness in Sheep"; protecting plants "from the ravages of the game and insects that feed upon them." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 15597. Rink 1097. Sabin 78985. Hildeburn 3631. NAIP w003401 9. Printed, by Robert Bell... unknown books
1881883091881. AGRICULTURE Miyazaki Ryûjô. Kôeki NOKÔ ZENSHO 5 vols. Tokyo n.d.1881. Bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. Original covers and title labels. 22.7 x 15.5 cm. An extensive guide to the practice of agriculture in the early modern era of Meiji Japan. Largely text but illustrated throughout in woodcut some of which in each volume are skillfully colored. Near fine condition. Unusual and important work. Miyazaki Ryûjô had also produced such importantlandmarks of modern learning as the Shintei Nihon yochi zenzu of 1878. Complete. unknown books
61417Two photo albums 11 1/2 by 15 in. bound at left margin with string ties. Approximately 350 black & white photos varying in size 8 x 10 in.; 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; 5 x 7 in.; 4 x 5 in.; 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. laid down on black album sheets or held in place by corner mounts. A photo documentary of the USDA's involvement in the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Mexico including often graphic images of the attempts to contain and eliminate the diseased livestock. A typed introduction to the two photo albums approx. 240 words is laid in entitled "Border Patrol" and details the work done by the Bureau of Animal Industry to protect the U.S. border with Mexico against entry by animals and animal products which might carry Foot-and-Mouth disease: "Traveling by horseback Jeep and airplane the 600 men of the BAI Border Patrol keep vigil over some of the roughest and most remote areas of the country" along the border from San Diego to Brownsville.<br/>Several of the photos have typed caption labels explaining the manual labor required to dig the animal burial pits stockyards of livestock awaiting destruction disinfection of the livestock cars etc. Some of the images have manuscript notes in chalk in the margins identifying photos whose negatives were to be "sent back to Mexico." One photo identifies the Mexican and American veterinarians who are cooperating on the control efforts others show the replacement steel plows and mules distributed to farmers to compensate for their losses a group of images show members of the border patrol at work. A few of the photos are by well-know photographer Juan Guzman others are by Charles H. Bernhard of the USDA etc. Photo images of maps showing the areas of Mexico affected are included primarily south of Vera Cruz along the Gulf of Mexico as well as vaccination preparations in the lab and administration of vaccines in the field. Operations centering on the Jeffcott Ranch in the Toluca area are depicted. Several of the photos have become detached from the album pages. All of the images very good clear. This pair of albums came from the estate of Claude Smith a veterinarian with the USDA who worked overseeing animal inspections and quarantines. According to a USDA publication "Foot-and-Mouth Disease: A Menace to North American Livestock" USDA: 1967 the collaborative effort between the U.S. and Mexico to combat the spread of the disease resulted in the destruction of some 883000 animals. A vaccination plan was also implemented.<br/>A handful of the photos are stamped with the name of Juan Guzman 1911-1982 who was born Hans Gutmann in Germany. A photojournalist he participated in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's forces and produced some graphic photos of the conflict. Gutmann emigrated to Mexico in 1939 under the name Guzman and later worked for the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. <br/><br/> unknown books
2735240 pp. Small 8vo cont. calf double gilt fillet round sides spine gilt. London: A. Millar 1755. Second edition; the first edition appeared earlier in the same year. This was clearly a very popular work with a Dublin edition also of 1755. "The first 100 pages of this book comprise an appeal to gentlemen to farm their estates as a reputable and profitable occupation and not to leave the business to the meanest of the people who are not only unable to make improvements but unwilling even to hear of them. He appeals to classical authority and to many of the English farming writers who preceded him. To clinch the argument he proceeds to prove how profitable a business farming is by giving specimen costings in which he estimates yields at 30 bushels wheat 30 bushels barley and 30 bushels peas certainly much higher than the national average at that date though possible in occasional years and some situations. He mentions some of the new crops and a rather ingenious barrel churn the use of which would give a larger proportion of butter for a given quantity of milk and concludes with an exhortation to cleanliness in the dairy."-Fussell II pp. 28-29. Very fine copy. unknown books
192227498Hartford: Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor 1922. First editions. Cloth. Most copies very good. Ex-library call numbers blacked out bookplates on pastedowns and a few other small interior stamps. Spines sunned on some of the earlier volumes occasional spotting to edges faint dampstain to the edge of a few volumes most notable towards the end of volume 2 scattered foxing but nearly all volumes tight clean and unmarked. A nice set. Illus. with b/w reproductions drawings photos and figures. 8vo. A nearly complete run from the first report of the Board in 1866 to 1922 lacking 1896 1907-11 1914 1918-1920. From 1879 to 1895 the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station report and from 1888 to 1896 the Storrs School report were bound together with the Board report as well as issued separately. Overall thus 72 volumes in 43. An important record of agriculture agricultural thought agricultural practices and agricultural influences in Connecticut from the close of the Civil War to the just after the First World War. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor hardcover books
1779522781779. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. DER PRAKTISCHEN GEISCHICHTE EUROPAISCHER NATURPRODUKTE. Nurenberg: auf Kosten der Stiebnerschen Buchdruckeren 1779-1782. 7 parts numbers 1-7 bound in one volume. 288pp. continuous pagination between parts. 14 engravings of horses asses bulls cows sheep and goats all with contemporary hand-coloring. 4to. green paper wrappers hand-lettered paper label to spine. A near fine copy remarkably clean with minimal foxing and slight thumbing to edges of some leaves. The plates are bright and fresh and sensitively colored. unknown books
1902WRCAM56268Boston: Poole Printing Co. 1902. 16pp. plus two promotional pieces laid in one a folded broadside the other 4pp. on a folded sheet. Original light green printed wrappers. Light wear. Near fine. An unrecorded promotional pamphlet and related ephemera touting the advantages of investing in the ill-fated Angelina Orchard Company near Lufkin in Angelina County Texas. Around 1900 the group of Boston investors who printed this pamphlet established the town of Manton in East Texas which was designed to support their commercial fruit farm on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The present pamphlet sets forth the details of the available land for purchase highlights the advantages of growing fruit in East Texas prints testimonials from others in support of the area and enumerates the legal protections for landowners in Texas. The inside rear wrapper is printed with a list of mean temperatures for the area from 1901. Laid into the pamphlet is a sample contract and a separate promotional detailing real estate and insurance offerings from the company. <br> <br> "The Angelina Orchard Company incorporated around 1901 with a capital stock of $130000.bought 12500 acres of cutover timberland near the site of what is now Southland Paper Mills for growing and processing fruit. The idea of raising fruit as an economic venture in Angelina County may have been fostered by the Lufkin TRIBUNE and the Houston POST which published articles early in the century advertising East Texas as a good peach-growing area. The author of these articles an industrial agent for several railroad lines had reportedly also sent out thousands of folders promoting this idea. About 1902 the Angelina Orchard Company planted 500 of its 12500 acres in peach trees 350 in pear and 150 in plum. The company planned to plant 500 more acres a year until the entire tract was under cultivation. The farm was envisioned as a community and business center. The company built tenant houses for orchard employees a commissary a school and a church. Also planned were a canning factory a sawmill more tenant houses and a spur railroad. The plans were short-lived however. Manager Fred Brunsterman was shot during an argument in a Lufkin bank vault. The company then employed two different managers but profits never met the original expectations. The last manager attempted to make money by raising cotton potatoes and cantaloupes with no more success than the peaches had brought cotton was then selling for twenty- five to fifty dollars a bale. The Manton orchard failed. The stockholders sold the land and what timber was left" - HANDBOOK OF TEXAS. No copies in OCLC or auction history. Megan Biesele "Manton Tx." in HANDBOOK OF TEXAS online. Poole Printing Co. unknown books
19131284Los Angeles 1913. Very good. Folding map approximately 20.25 x 28 inches. Light wear and a couple of minor separations along folds. Light tanning. An attractive and scarce cartographic promotional for lands under development by the California Land and Water Company in the Victor Valley northeast of Los Angeles. The platted map depicts the lands along the Mojave River between Victorville and Barstow and the areas to the east and west above the San Gabriel Mountains. Above the map is a panorama of the Mojave with a bridge and dam site in the foreground. The verso prints facts about prosperous fruit growing in the region; newspaper testimonials regarding the valley's fertility and recent growth; photographic images of local agriculture including one large image of a Victorville Chamber of Commerce with some state fair prize-winning apples; and even an inspiration economic quotation from "John Stuart Mills." Good evidence of the substantial growth in agriculture in this area during the early-20th century; OCLC locates only one copy at Yale. unknown books
1813347091813. 8pp. Disbound. Final leaf nearly detached and lacking lower margin removing a contemporary manuscript annotation. Other scattered manuscript annotations. Some tanning and dampstaining. Good. A pamphlet printing of an essay on sheep breeding.<br/> <br/>Specifically addresses best practices for the treatment of the ram that also appeared in Samuel Latham Mitchill's The Medical Respository in 1813. Not in OCLC. unknown books
181120221London: B. Crosby and Co 1811. Second Edition. Boards. Very Good. Second Edition. 8vo. pp. ii frontis xxxii 33-376 377-382 2 ads; contemporary half-calf and marbled paper boards; black morocco spine label gilt; spine somewhat dulled and darkened; board marbling rubbed all edges marbled; frontispiece foxed; scattered foxing; still very good. Boards. Because this title had real utilitarian value it is seldom found in good condition. Second edition of this popular work which went through more than twelve editions. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Descriptive text with 137 recipes for treating cattle diseases and disorders. The author published a similar and even more popular book for horse ailments. B. Crosby and Co unknown books
1255424 x 17 in. Matted in a contemporary frame. Some wear but a very good example with a list of premiums rules and regulations etc. within a decorative border. Nice Massachusetts display piece. unknown books
1872WRCAM46409N.p. but possibly St. Louis 1872. Broadside 10 1/2 x 8 inches. Single horizontal crease flattened. Near fine. Broadside promoting the agricultural production of hemp for the use of making sails and rope for the Navy. Marsh cites importation statistics from 1871 noting that over $4000000 in hemp was imported that year. He declares that to resume our place as a naval power "we must produce within ourselves all the material required for building and rigging as well as arming and manning ships of war." An internal textual reference to hemp growing in Missouri suggests this broadside may have been printed there. unknown books
19212222331<p>First edition. Thin octavo. Original red cloth with black lettering. No dust jacket. This scarce supplement which was prepared to list all cattle brands recorded with the State of California between 1918 and January 1921 with a detailed index. Good few stains. 135 pages.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>G. H. Hecke Director. James B. Newsom Secretary.</b></p><p><b>Tipped in is a 1 page TLS June 14 1949 from E. Clyde Harris to Pasadena bookseller Charles P. Yale stating the book is out of print.</b></p><p><b>Provenance: Collection of Rosario Curletti Santa Barbara.</b></p><p><b>Not located in Rampaging Herd.</b></p> California State Printing Office hardcover books
188120560Sacramento: State Office 1881. 72 pp illustrated with small wood engravings in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California's apple crop was devastated by Codlin moths. He began studying entomology to find defense against the moths and ensure the security of his business and quickly became an expert on a range of pests affecting California's fruit crops. He was appointed Chief Executive Horticultural Officer of California in 1881. This report prepared at the request of the State Board of Horticultural Commissioners describes the life cycles of the major insects damaging fruit crops moths scale insects mites caterpillars borers aphids etc. and recommends remedies for dealing with each. It also includes the text of new legislation intended to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State of California. State Office unknown books
1936886Dallas 1936. Very good. Four items including two folding pamphlets one typed letter signed and an envelope. Light wear and tanning. Interesting and colorful promotional material for Rock Island Plow Company of Dallas and Oklahoma. A large folding poster printed in red and yellow depicts the two most popular plow models "built especially for Texas soils" on one side of the sheet and on the other a third illustration of a plow with promotional text. A second folding pamphlet comprises a small illustrated catalog with additional models modifications and specifications. The advertisements were sent to the Smith-Moore-Williams Co. of Bonham Texas with a typed letter signed and dated September 1936 exhorting them to post the ads in their store and including a wholesale price list. A stamped return envelope for potential orders is also optimistically included. Very attractive agricultural promotionals though one wonders what the market was for plows in North Texas and Oklahoma at the height of the Dust Bowl. unknown books
1818269155Hartford: Printed for Hudson and Co. and Cooke and Hale 1818. First American Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An attractive copy of the First American Edition of this agricultural treastise by a prominent Scots politician and agricultural writer. With two plates of a Hereford Cow and a Hereford Bull and six additional plates. The front board of this mottled calf binding has been discreetly reattached; morocco title label to the spine. Shaw and Shoemaker 45720. Very Good binding. Printed for Hudson and Co. and Cooke and Hale unknown books
1838506Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Edmund Y. Schelly 1838. 12mo. 180 x 105 mm. 7 x 4 ¼ inches. 103 pp. One woodcut illustration of a "silk reel" in the text. Publisher's leather spine over printed boards cut of the silk reel printed on rear cover. Paper stock toned with age showing some tide marks otherwise a very good copy. First German language edition of this standard work on growing silk and mulberries originally published in Boston in 1835. The business of growing mulberries was one of the boom crops in American agriculture during the 1830s and Pennsylvania was one of the centers for its cultivation. "In the mid-1830s a new species of mulberry tree was introduced into America that purportedly grew much faster and could feed significantly more silkworms than the native species. This gave rise to a brief silk craze with increased widespread attempts at domestic silk cultivation and much financial speculation in the industry." For an interesting insight into the mulberry craze see the archive of William and Jacob Schoener at the Library of Congress where documents show how the family invested heavily in the crop. American imprints 51116. Philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/silk. Gedruckt bey Edmund Y. Schelly unknown books
1930WRCAM56278Austin 1930. 502pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor chipping and some soiling to wrappers. Text evenly toned. Very good. A scarce illustrated promotional pamphlet advertising the products and services of a long-running nursery and landscape architecture firm in Austin Texas. The text is illustrated with photographs of the company at work their fruits flowers trees and planting & pruning services. Four generations of the men of the Ramsey family are represented with photographic portraits on the inside front wrapper. The last leaf is a blank order form for products from the catalogue. A smattering of copies appear in OCLC under a few different accession numbers. unknown books
2543London: Mark Baskett January 10th 1765. . Folio disbound first title still conjugate gutter showing evidence of previous binding. Second title third leaf detached; gutter showing evidence of previous binding The passage of these acts was probably spurred by an the likelihood of an outbreak of cattle plague on the British mainland which actually did occur in later in 1765. London: Mark Baskett, January 10th 1765. unknown books
4504JOHN Q.A. BALLOU. Ballou was a noted Californian arborist. Born in New England Ballou eventually settled in San Jose where he became known for cultivating fruit trees in particular. unknown books
190457195Buenos Aires: np 1904. Second edition "Latest Data". Tan textured paperwraps short tears along spine at head and foot of joints; chipping to spine ends. 8vo.; 136 4 pp. Folding map tipped in to rear wrapper. Illustrated with photos charts and 4 additional folding maps. Small previous owner's name stamp on front wrapper. A very good copy. <br/><br/> np paperback books
1856231278London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1856. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner's name date written on fep. No pencil or ink markings in text. A few pages un-cut. Green embossed cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Spine rebacked. Light to moderate edgewear to boards. Mylar cut to protect boards. Very Good binding. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown books
1914281944Richmond Va.: Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration 1914. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Promotional booklet for Virginia issued by the Department of Agriculture and Industrial Resources; 103 numbered pages with black and white photographs throughout some of which are unusual: the state's limestone-grinding plant near Staunton; the trunk factory in Petersburg; agricultural class in the high school in Harrisonburg; and the like. With frontispiece of a shiny red apple which has bled a small amount to the facing page. Front pastedown has a small amount of separation. Pictorial paper-covered boards backed in green cloth; oblong small quarto. Very Good binding. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration unknown books
180036157Boston: Young and Minns 1800. 29 3 blanks pp. Disbound widely scattered foxing. Except as noted Very Good. <br/><br/> Fifty inquiries are propounded by the Trustees of the Society "with a view to collect the most accurate Information on the principal Branches of Agriculture as now practiced and thus be enabled to propagate the knowledge of whatever shall be found useful; and to open more wide the way to future improvements." <br/> As ESTC notes "Only the odd pages are numbered. The even-numbered pages are blank." <br/>Rink 1134. Evans 37935. ESTC W20529. Young and Minns unknown books
