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187234421Unknown: N.A. 1872. Ledger. Good. Approx. 3.5" X 6" brown leather ledger. Light wear to the leather. Dates range from 1862 to 1872. Details cover agricultural goods business records including payments for work etc. Accounts are dated with account holder names. Many written upside down on pages. Location is unknown but most likely this ledger book was from the northern United States. N.A. unknown
186634704Ludlow Vermont 1866. Ledger. Good. Ledger. Octavo. 234 pages total of which 174 pages have writing from a few word numbers etc. to completely filled accounts. Approximately 60 pages are blank. Brownish marbled paper covered boards with tan leather spine. Marbled paper is shelf worn. Spine is chipped at head and base. Arithmetic pencil notes written on the end sheets. A few pages torn out of the ledger in back. Interior content in good condition. About half the pages or less are used for accounts. First page starts with the written heading - "Cash paid out for Company 1863 by S. W. Stinson." Items listed on the first two pages include Horse accessories wagons wagon parts shoes stables oats hay and other horse and wagon related items. Several pages following the 1863 and 1864 records are equations written in pencil. One of these pages has the heading - "Bark Measured for S P Atherton". From the middle sections of the ledger to the end are several products associated with clothing accessories. One page is dated 1865/66. Goods and costs of items include a sewing machine buttons embroidery "infants waist" braid fringe ribbon lace cuffs collars trimmings feather bonnets hats silk etc. Towards the back of the ledger is a short inscription signed by S Stinson Ludlow Vermont. Good. unknown
187934694Vermont: n/a 1879. n/a. Hardcover. Fair. Approx. 7.5" x 6.5" account ledger. Reddish marbled paper covered boards with brown leather corners and spine. Leather is rubbed on the spine. Light shelf wear to the marbled paper. Several leaves in back of the ledger are torn out. 55 pages used for recording payments received payments paid selling skins oil pine tar work services sawing flour plank bark crackers oats salt beef etc. <br /> <br /> Dozens of names listed inside the ledger. A couple of account pages have "Dairy Skins" headings at top of the pages. Dates and entries for the ledger are not continous. Entries start January 12 1874 to and finish in April 1879. Location unknown for the ledger but a couple of entries inside mention St. Albans and one mentions Montpelier. n/a hardcover
187856639Bristol: Joy & Brown General Steam Printers All Saints’ St. 1878. 8vo. 32 pp. plus 4 pp. ads. Orange-coloured printed softcovers minor edgewear very minor bumping to corners edgewear still VG w/ occasional annotations next to Paget names. First edition of this scarce program for an annual Victorian farm exhibition held in Chewton Mendip with prizes for the best and most productive farms as well as finest hunting horses race horses and many other classes of produce & livestock. Greville 1818-1893 had served as aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria and was an active proponent of Victorian Gothic architecture who along with his wife Anne Charteris promoted British farms and trades. He is perhaps best remembered for establishing the famed Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle now residing at the Folger Library. No copies in Worldcat. Joy & Brown, General Steam Printers, All Saints’ St., paperback
1887204161887. Fair/No Jacket. Paper covers Considerable edge wear but with little loss. A comprehensive listing of agricultural products and livestock. 182 pp plus advertisements some in colour. unknown
189158345Stayton OR: A.M. Brown Photographer ca. 1891. Oblong 4to. 1 boudoir sized albumen photo sized 5 x 8 in. mounted on 8 x 10 in. re-used studio mount corners carefully rounded and albumen portrait photo mounted on verso crossed out in pencil by the photographer very minor dustsoiling slight stain to left margin of board still VG bright image. By 1890 Marion County and farms near Stayton Oregon had become known for their wheat made into buckwheat flour which drew premium prices wherever sold. This image shows wagons loaded with loose grain being hauled to the thresher or separator where it was loaded into the feeder an adjustable hopper and then the separated kernels were loaded into stacks. This image shows the traction engine connected by wide leather possibly rubberized belt to the threshing machine itself. Brown 1860-1931 only operated as a professional photographer in Stayton Oregon in 1891 before moving to Salem where he continued until about 1896. He later became an itinerant preacher in Clark County WA opened and ran a second hand store before World War I in Brownsville OR before moving to Stockton & Manteca CA. No examples of similar Brown photos in institutional holdings; See: Mautz Biographies of Western Photographers 2018; Mathilda Siegmund-Jones History of Stayton 1955. A.M. Brown, Photographer, hardcover
1833174246London: Printed for Sherwood Gilbert and Piper 1833. Second edition in the original boards of this practical handbook of soil fertilization containing six essays on crop rotation manures and compost. The second edition adds a 33-page appendix on agricultural policy in pre-Victorian England. The anonymous author dedicates the work to Sir John Sinclair 1754-1835 a noted codifier of farming knowledge and the first president of the Board of Agriculture. The first edition not recorded in Perkins was published in 1828. Octavo 227 x 140 mm pp. xii 141 1 3-35 1. With 32 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear dated September 1831 - 31 March 1833. Tables in the text. Publisher's boards printed paper label to spine. Bumping and wear joints split but holding firm slight loss to spine ends chipping to spine label contents bright and clean barring a few spots: a very good copy. Perkins 491. hardcover
1899P668London: Longman's Green and Co 1899. 1st Edition . Hardback. V.g. Soiled. 8vo. xx 490 32pp. pub. cat.lacking p1. 2 maps and 35 of 36 plates by G. Leon Little. Lacks Bush draining at Bedingham p79. Gennerally grubby foxed copy in original binding. READING COPY ONLY. <br/> <br/> Longman's Green and Co hardcover
184913066Boston: Tappan Whittemore & Mason. Very Good. 1849. Hardcover. Clean blind stamped black cloth. Heavily gilt decorated leather spine. Text tight clean & intact. Fold out map frontispiece. A engraved illustrations. Including principal mountains rivers waterfalls harbors and islands. Statistical accounts of its agriculture commerce and manufactures. New England; Map Tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages . Tappan, Whittemore & Mason hardcover
1805j3627London: Richard Phillips. G : in good condition. Rebacked. Slight foxing. 1805. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xxiv 293pp plates. 4 plates 2 fold-out 1 hand-coloured. . from the Original Report Transmitted to the Board; with Additional Remarks of Several Respectable Country Gentlemen and Farmers. To which id Added s Treatise on Paring and Burning. . Richard Phillips hardcover
1875444456264 115pp boards with marbled paper leather strip along spine gilt titles likely rebound in 1893 scuff on front board endpapers discoloured one page has some black marks under some words does not obscure text appears to be flaw during printing lengthy inscription on flyleaf otherwise unmarked. Lovell Printing and Publishing Company hardcover
187830288Atlanta: Jas. P. Harrison Co 1878. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 119 pages. Light gray printed stitched wraps with title on the front. Foxing to the covers. Interior contents clean. Jas. P. Harrison Co unknown
1884021972Calcutta Bombay & London: Thacker Spink & Co. 1884. Illustrated with line drawings in the text small octavo pp viii 247 i publisher's catalogue 36 pages an early signature on the front endpaper R.B. Crothers becoming COMPLETELY loose and detached internally original brown beveled cloth with gilt decoration very blotched and marked the spine fraying at head and tail. The page signatures appear not to have been sewn - possibly gutta-percha and small staples Whatever the precise method it has now disintegrated ! RARE . First Edition. Cloth. Poor. Thacker, Spink & Co. Hardcover
189835068Three Rivers Michigan: R. M. Kellogg 1898. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Catalog. 29 pages 2 pages of order forms. Laid inside the catalog is a two page broadsheet advertisement from R.M. Kellogg. 10" X 6" illustrated wraps with lengthy title and portrait of R. M. Kellogg on the front cover. "Photograph of Rear of Residence and Our Employees Answering to Noon Day Roll Call." on the back cover. Illustrated. Light edge wear. Trade catalog. R. M. Kellogg unknown
1827r1355Alnwick: William Davison. Worn condition. Pages 1-8 missing. Cover rubbed faded and taped. Rear board loose. Loss to spine. Some foxing. 1827. Second Edition. Cerise hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xli 196pp. . William Davison hardcover
184117009London: John Vanvoorst. Very Good. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green paper covered boards title label on front cover. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. No foxing. Spiegel or Mirror Carp wood-cut illustration on title page. Appendix containing 23 German Recipes for cooking fresh water fish. Building and stocking fish ponds. Prior owners book-plate. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Agriculture Pisciculture; Wood-cut; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38 pages . John Vanvoorst hardcover
1802TS167London: L.B. Seeley 1802. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. x 189 i adspp. 9 of 10 plates lacking plate 7 p182. 200 text figures. Printed by J. Seeley Buckingham The first edition was pub. in 1799 in six parts. The second edition here has one extra section The large attractive Oundle Estate plan is complete but torn and some fox marks. A fine cartouche to the title of the plan. Text illus. throughout. A rare second edition printed on rather poor quality paper but an interesting and scarce book. Lacking the facsimile 'Field Book' that was to be 'stitched separately'. <br/> <br/> L.B. Seeley hardcover
1808GT200London: L.B. Seeley 1808. third edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. xii 180pp 11 of 14 full-page plates with an engraved 14 plate facsimile of a Field-Book at the rear. Original full calf binding with wear. Rear board attached but fragile. INCOMPLETE <br/> <br/> L.B. Seeley hardcover
185717010Cleveland: Tho. Brown. Good. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: "Giving the Author's First Experiments Contained in a Paper Read Before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. Also Directions for the Most Successful Modes of Angling for such Kinds of Fish as are Herein Described." Clean black embossed cloth with gilt title on spine. Text tight and intact. Light foxing through-out. Engraved Illustrations. The hatching and rearing of Speckled Trout; Black Bass; Large Mouth Bass; White Bass; Grass Bass; Rock Bass; Pickerel; Yellow Perch; Sun Fish and Eel. Agriculture Pisciculture; Engraved Illustrations; 8vo; 142 pages . Tho. Brown hardcover
1844017677London & Stamford: Houlston and Stoneman; H. Johnson 1844. First edition. An engraved frontispiece showing drainage implements four folding plans of fields octavo pp viii 207 a little age-toning on some pages some offsetting from frontispiece on to title page but most of the contents are clear bound in an attractive and probably contemporary half calf and marbled boards very slightly worn. SCARCE. With the small contemporary book label of J. Bailey. The author is described on the title page as Land-Agent and Professor of Draining Walcot near Stamford. The plates of fields are all in Northamptonshire. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. Houlston and Stoneman; H. Johnson Hardcover
1822022550183 Fleet Street London: J.M. Cobbett 1822. title continues - "and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and of the institutions of the country civil political and religious. In Three Parts." Third edition. 12mo pp 2 vi 360 a little age-toned a large folding map with one tear age-toned and with some offsetting both to itself and the adjoining pages but in much better than average condition marbled edges in a fairly recent and attractive binding of tan quarter morocco and marbled boards. . Third edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good. J.M. Cobbett Hardcover
18188845Philadelphia: Printed by order of the Society 1818. Disbound. Good binding. 12mo. 14 pp. Removed from volume. Newly restitched through original holes. Early ink and rubber-stamped numbers at the top of the title page; faint small indecipherable stamps. The Society's goals were the encouragement and protection of agriculture in Pennsylvania. These aims were to be accomplished via legislation encouraging opening of new lands and by offering premiums and prizes. Shaw & Shoemaker 45299. Printed by order of the Society unknown
1816341407London: printed by Sherwood Neely and Jones 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy in the original paper boards with a paper label to the spine. Wear and tear as with age with some loss to the spine. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of John Marten Cripps with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; multiple pagings. Subjects; Agriculture. Board of Agriculture. Agriculture Reports 1816. London: printed by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones hardcover
1816266791United Kingdom: Sherwood Neely & Jones for The Board of Agriculture 1816. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback octavo recent quarter calf lettered gilt on red to a faded spine later brown cloth over boards with new endpapers the text-block rough-trimmed tightly bound clean and unmarked iv 266 148 4 3-14 pp. The top edges of the publisher list at the rear of the volume remain unopened. Sherwood, Neely & Jones for The Board of Agriculture Hardcover
181692402London: B. McMillan Printers 1816. Hardback no dust-wrapper. 4265 2 148pp. 23cm x 14.5cm. Original paper-covered boards. New end-papers. Chipping to spine ends with small loss to head of spine. Edges of boards a little faded. Pages uncut. The book consists of "The substance of the replies to a circular letter sent by the Board of Agriculture to every part of the kingdom" and paints a very gloomy picture of agriculture at that date. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. B. McMillan (Printers) Hardcover
