FS: Pre 1900 Farm Books and Mags
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The American Agriculturist Volume 23, 1863
1863 Orange Judd, NY. Huge 10x12 3/4 leather volume, encompassing the
whole year 1863(Vol. 23) of the monthly farm magazine, 'The American
Agriculturist'. A bonus is the last 3 months of 1862 also bound in.
Civil War years . G+.
$70.00
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Keywords: Antiquarian Engravings History Farm Leather Bound
Magazines Agriculture
The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac
for 1856, No. 2
Albany NY, Luther Tucker and Son. 1856. Soft Cover. Illustrated. This
antique almanac has a brown heavy paper cover with black cover
lettering and illustration showing a bucolic landscape dotted with
sheep and cows. Cover is chipped at corners, foxed; inner pages show
some transfer of print from page to page, but overall clean.
Embellished with 150 engravings, this is the second half of the
almanac, which was started the year before,and published in continuous
pagination in two volumes. The following year would continue the
continuous pagination form; complete unto itself. The almanac contains
information regarding tides, the moon's phases, and other standard
almanac fare, but also a staggering variety of data about house
building, farm building construction, ornamental planting, cheese and
butter making and detailed info about different species of apple, pear
and peach, to name a few. 138 pages; aprox. 4"x7". Good.
$40 Book number: 112018
Keywords: Agriculture Illustrated Pre-1900 Butter Cheese Automaton Gate
Barns Farming Rural Affairs Almanac
NO AUTHOR Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience, Showing How a Very
Small Farm May Be Made to Keep a Very Large Family
New York, James Miller. 1864. Hard Cover. This antique hardcover book
is bound in dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering and etched
designs on the front cover. Some cover wear/soil; spine slightly
cocked; some soil to endpapers, but most inner pages clean. The author
describes a system by which a small farm can be cultivated to produce
the highest possible returns. 255 pages, plus advertisements; approx.
5"x8". Very Good/No Jacket.
$45.00 Book number: EEF1585
Keywords: Agriculture Homesteading Antiquarian Farming How to
Subsistence
COURTNEY, W.S. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Manual
New York, E.B. Treat & Co. 1869. Leather. Ill.: Illustrated. This
antique leatherbound farmer's manual has a handsome brown leather cover
with decorative tooled designs, gilt emblem and lettering. Spine is
worn and chipped, some edgewear and foxing. A sort of Farmer's
Almanac-type reference manual with information on weather, crops,
stocks, livestock, fences, machinery and more, illustrated throughout
with engravings and diagrams. 506 pages; approx. 5"x8". Fair.
$40 . Book number: 92091
Keywords: Agriculture the Trades Farming Masonry Hydraulics
Illustrated Antiquarian Pre 1900
THOMAS, JOHN J. The American Fruit Culturist, Containg Practical
Directions for the Propagation and Culture of All Fruits Adapted to the
United States.
1875 William Wood. blue cover with gilt ltg & dec. Illus with drawings
and beautiful color frontis of fruit. 576 pgs 6'x9' Very slight foxing,
some rubbing and corner wear on cover, still G+ tight.
75.00 Book number: 6356
Keywords: Gardening Agriculture Farming Fruit
American Agriculturist, July 1876 (Reprint), Vol. Xxxv, No. 7
New York, The Orange Judd Company. Soft Cover. Ill.: Illustrated. This
reprint of a July 1876 issue of American Agriculturalist has an
off-white paper cover, bound with staples at the spine. A complete
reprint, the only modern marking on this edition is the small $2 cover
price in the lower right-hand corner. Illustrated with engravings, this
issue contains articles on a wide variety of agricultural topics,
including a lot of questions from readers, touching on everything from
beekeeping to farm mortgages to sailboats. Image @
www.popeks.com/books/p0091.jpg Lots of advertisements; about 40 pages,
8"x11". Very Good +.
$25 Book number: P0091
Keywords: Agriculture Periodical Illustrated Farm Reprint
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