- Quarto, 11-7/8 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, brown wraps titled and decorated in silver. The edges of the covers are rubbed with staining to the bottom corner of the rear cover. 116 pages, profusely illustrated in color. There is some occasional soiling and minor foxing. Very good. A substantial brightly illustrated sample book which includes garden plans for decorating one's home and offering "A Complete Selection of Landscape Materials, Fruit Bearing Trees and Plants". As per the publisher's information: "Copyright 1953 by L.P. Akenhead. This Plate Book is issued solely for the ... View More...
(Khon Kaen, Thailand): Rural Systems Research and Farming Systems Research Projects, 1987).. 1987).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed black wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & slightly bumped. viii & 357 pages. Illustrated with tables, charts & maps. Very good.
Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA), an emerging new methodology, is a distinctive 'process of learning about rural conditions in an intensive, iterative and expeditious manner.' Specifically designed to improve quality and timeliness and to reduce the cost of rural development research [From the rear wrap copy]. View More...
- Quarto, 11-3/4 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled pictorial wraps with a photographic illustration of the "Diamond Jubilee" rose on the front cover. The covers are slightly creased with a short tear along the bottom edge of the spine. 48 pages, including the covers, with profuse color illustrations of the roses offered for sale by Jackson & Perkins with descriptions and prices. Very good. Laid in is a promotional card with envelope, together with two 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide order forms for the Fall 1947 catalog and a "Christmas Gift" order form. Also laid in i... View More...
[New York?]: n.p., circa [1852].. [1852].. Very good. - Octavo, softcover. Printed self-wraps sewn with white cord. 20 pages. Illustrated in black & white with 4 engravings of reaping machines & with diagrams. There are 3 light horizontal creases to the pages where the pamphlet has been folded. The page corners are bumped. Very good. A note is penciled along the top of the first page: Not for presentation to Congress but please read!The four engravings of reapers are signed Miller-Mix, that is John Miller and Lucius C. Mix.A group of New York citizens protests to Congress against the renewal o... View More...
(Albany, NY: 1840).. 1840).. Good. - Octavo, printed self-wraps. 34 pages. Possibly lacks 1 folding leaf of plates. There is foxing to the title & the last page with scattered lighter foxing & staining throughout. There are 2 tiny stains to the bottom margin of the last page. Good. Attempts to introduce sericulture to the United States had been sporadic and largely unsuccessful. In 1831 a manual on sericulture by J. H. Cobb was distributed to members of Congress. A determined effort to establish silk culture then led to the "Mormus multicaulis craze". Thousands of individuals bought a... View More...
Worcester, MA: F. S. Blanchard & Co., Printers, 1895.. 1895.. Good. - Small octavo, boards backed & edged with brown cloth tape with a printed tan label on the front board & a plain tan label on the rear board. The front board is darkened & soiled with an owner's faded name along the bottom edge. The rear board is slightly darkened & lightly soiled with a small stain. 261 pages. There is a light vertical crease to the title with a chip out of the top corner & the bottom corner is lightly creased. Good. View More...
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, Ltd., (1950).. (1950).. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth. The binding is bumped & rubbed. The spine is faded with the head lightly chipped. The front joint is rubbed with slight tears. vii, [ii] & 186 pages plus colophon. 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations. The pastedowns & endpapers are stained. There is very light foxing to the top & bottom edges of the book. Good.
[Washington, DC]: Blair & Rives, printers, 1840.. 1840.. Good. - Octavo, printed self-wraps. 13 pages, partially unopened. The first page is stained, foxed & partially detached. The bottom edge of page 6 & the front edge of page 7 are creased & chipped. Several page corners are creased & there is scattered foxing throughout. Good only. Daniel Jenifer of Maryland, Philip Triplett of Kentucky and Benjamin Jones of Virginia were appointed by the convention of tobacco planters held in Washington on May 1 and 2, 1840 "to memorialize Congress in relation to the high duties and restrictions upo... View More...
Hanover, NH: Printed at the Dartmouth Press, 1857.. 1857.. Good. - Octavo, unbound, removed at some time in the past from a larger bound volume of pamphlets. 20 pages sewn with cream cord. There is occasional light foxing, especially to the last page, & the top 2 inches of the last 2 leaves are detached. There are a few light pencil underlinings in the text. Good.
James W. Patterson, Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, addresses the question of how to achieve the full development of America's agricultural resources. View More...
Published by the author, (1897).. (1897).. Good. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt. The covers are bumped. The edges of the front cover are a bit faded & there is some dampstaining to its bottom corner. 54 pages. Illustrated in black & white with a portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard & with textual illustrations & diagrams. The book is cracked at the first text page. There is some soiling to the title page & the pages are very slightly rippled, probably from humidity. Good.
The book is an argument supporting the long held assertion that Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper. View More...
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1931.. 1931.. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed, bumped & soiled with slight fraying to the corners of the covers. The spine is somewhat darkened. ix & 560 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations & tables. There is some light soiling to the prelims & there is an ink notation on the rear pastedown. Good.
Second edition.
From the library of geographer Vincent Kotschar with his book label on the front pastedown. View More...
- Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Unbound, removed in the distant past from a larger collection of bound pamphlets. The darkened and foxed cover title page is detached. 56 pages. There is dampstaining to the top front corner of most of the pages with some occasional foxing. There are stab marks along the inner edge of the pages and several of the signatures (group of pages) are pulled and likely to come loose. A good complete copy. This work was first published by Packard and Van Benthuysen in 1825 in an edition with only 39 pages. That edition's title began with the word "Memo... View More...
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