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18038782Boston: Young and Minns 1803. 93 2pp. Disbound light foxing Very Good. The Papers are on a variety of useful developments in agriculture. With a list of Members of the Society. FIRST EDITI0N. Rink 1143 4. AI 4617. Young and Minns unknown books
1947196668Washington DC: GPO 1947. Paperback. iii 227p. wraps worn and soiled staples begining to rust old label on spine. GPO paperback 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
193642509Washington DC: U.S. Govt. Printing Office 1936. 8vo pp. 24. Illustrated. Paper wraps. Cover slightly chipped and soiled o/w VG. U.S. Govt. Printing Office unknown 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
188114670Washington 1881. 46th Cong. 3d Sess. SED 27. Disbound 153pp. Very Good. 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
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
191545549Berkeley: University of California Press 1915. 1st Printing cf. Gabler G9484 listing a reprint of 1921. Printed self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to pamphlet extremities. Light signs of use. Very Good. 2 75 2 pp. Illustrated primarily with b/w photographic images including frontis of Scott. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/> University of California Press unknown books
187070091Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1870. Hardcover. 702 pages brown cloth covers gilt printing to the spine. The covers are soiled and rubbed. The contents show some light toning- otherwise bright and complete. Good. . Government Printing Office hardcover books
186569386Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1865. Hardcover. 676 pages brown cloth covers faded gilt printing to the spine. The covers are soiled and rubbed sunned spine and edges. The contents show some toning and light foxing- otherwise bright and complete. Good. . Government Printing Office hardcover books
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
183035701Washington D.C.: Duff Green 1830. Small 8vo. 88 pp. <br><br>Is composed of essays and letters by Du Ponceau and d'Homerque on American silk with directions to farmers for raising silk worms. Important early work on sericulture in the U.S. Wood-engraved illustration.<br>Â Â Â Â House document United States. Congress. House 21st Congress 1st session no. 126. Removed from a nonce volume. Foxing. Duff Green] unknown books
32358Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Indianapolis 1853. 384 p original cloth a little spotting but generally very good condition. . Other 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
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
195667835No Place: United States Department of Agriculture. Very Good. 1956. Softcover. Series 1944 No. 7 issued August 1956. Brown envelope complete with 17 maps and 231 page pamphlet. Very Good. . United States Department of Agriculture paperback books
192924850Washington D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office 1929. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy wrappers lightly browned small repair to crease of map. Paged 1557-1599. Illus. with 2 maps one large color folding. 8vo. U. S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1975183455U.S. Goverment Printing Office 1975-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1975 Hardcover. Good condition- cloth boards are clean has a good binding modest cover wear with rubbing to edges of boards moisture mark on bottom page edge- text unaffected no interior marks or notations. lz U.S. Goverment Printing Office hardcover books
192750178Berkeley: University of California Printing Office 1927. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 46pp. Brief pencil notation to front wrapper; old ink pressure stamp to rear wrapper "Library of the San Francisco College For Women"; marginal soil and toning; Very Good and sound. A publication of the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station. University of California Printing Office unknown books
1927190989Dept. of Agriculture 1927-01-01. Paperback. Good. Blue cloth spine with paper wraps original map foldout attached to back cover! Book is clean has a good binding. Previous owner name inside front cover no other marks or notations. Minor edge scuffing and overall age toning/foxing. TP TNOS HS Dept. of Agriculture paperback books
1909M8330Washington D.C.:: Government Printing Office 1909. 1909. Revised Edition. 8vo. 551 pp. 52 plates some color 27 figs. index. Blind-stamped maroon cloth gilt spine; spine ends frayed covers freckled inner hinges broken. AS IS. Government Printing Office, 1909. hardcover books
191169868Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1911. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 614 pages maroon boards with gilt printing to the spine. The covers are soiled and rubbed binding splitting. Contents just slighlty toned- otherwise complete Good. . Government Printing Office hardcover books
1138New York: Frederick A Stokes and Company 1930. . 8vo black cloth spine faded; inner front hinge cracked;5 leaves mistrimmed in binding with loss of a few letters on 6 lines New York: Frederick A Stokes and Company, 1930. hardcover books
18982602Washington: Government Printing Office 1898. Octavo 240 pages. With 2 large folding color maps. First edition. Previous owner's ink stamp to endpapers and to versos of maps. A thorough overview of the beet-sugar industry with reports from various agricultural stations and details on the regional status of beet farming and processing. Some staining to front panel of blue cloth-covered boards. Otherwise very good or better. Government Printing Office hardcover books