Yuma, AZ: Yuma County Chamber of Commerce. 1930s promotional brochure. 20 pages, 9 x 8 inches when unfolded, extensively illustrated with half-tone photographs, double-page map at center. Showcases Yuma's businesses, irrigation and agricultural production (dates, figs, cotton, alfalfa, grapes, lettuce, canteloupes, pecans, grapefruits), mining, recreational opportunities. The last page describes..... Item #21238
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition published by D. Appleton and Company. 130 pp, bound in green cloth. Light shelf wear to boards, bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and tight. No dust jacket. The author was a British Member of..... Item #2356
Frankfort, KY: Capital Office, John D. Woods, Public Printer, 1885. Hardcover. Very good. 476, with two color folding maps (one geological), tables. December 31, 1885. An in-depth and fascinating report from the state of Kentucky. Includes sections on Kentucky thoroughbred and trotting horses, Kentucky tobacco report, the whisky industry in..... Item #152
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1918. Softcover. Good. USDA Bulletin No. 719. August 29, 1918. 15 pp, with 2 maps, one photographic illustration. Foxing, general cover wear; good. Interesting content on how "women whose homes are on the farms are taking advantage of the improvement in means of..... Item #21170
Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1856. Hardcover. Very good. 336 pp, with 4 plates, index. Original cloth boards show moderate general wear; endpapers foxed, ownership markings on flyleaf, text clean and binding sound. Fitch was a natural historian and entomologist whose extensive studies helped scientists to..... Item #2327
Miami: Everglade Land Sales, 1912. Hardcover. Very good-. Second edition, much enlarged from the first, published in 1911. 8vo, 226 pp + index, illustrated with half-tone photographs and line drawings. Original pictorial cloth boards, rebacked, with new endpapers (original endpapers also retained). Some staining to front board, otherwise clean and..... Item #20506
Raleigh, NC: E.M. Uzzell & Co., 1912. Softcover. Near fine. 58 pp, in original wrappers. Light spotting to edges, interior clean and tight. Includes a paper on "The Mission of the Departments of Agriculture and Agricultual Workers in the South" by the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and another on "The..... Item #2819
Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Public Museum, 1969. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 244 pp, indexed and illustrated. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise minimal wear. Dust jacket has rubbing/wear at edges. "A detailed account of the development and organization of the mint oil industry in..... Item #21387
Concord, NH: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition (first published 1809). 16mo, 143 pp, with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped..... Item #21533
San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Company, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 146 pp + 16 black and white plates, additional illustrations in the text. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in black, and inscribed on the title page "Wm. R. Boothby, Esq. Compliments of the Author."..... Item #21434
Melbourne: Printed and Published by the Mining Standard for the Tasmanian Government, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. 148 pp, with b/w illustrations, maps, and ads. A scarce promotional work, with text offering descriptive and statistical information on tourist attractions, hydro-electric development, mining, timber resources, agriculture (fruit..... Item #14346
Chino, CA: E.C. Hamilton, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 244 pp, indexed and illustrated, + ca. 20 unnumbered pages of interesting ads at the end. Bound in plain (no titles) black cloth that seems to have clear glue on it (not sticky) -- possibly from someone having affixed a...... Item #20708
Lansing, MI: Michigan State Grange, 1928-29. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Four issues: Volume 8, Nos. 3 & 4 (May/June and Aug/Sept 1928); Vol. 9 Nos. 4 & 5 (June/July and Aug/Sept 1929). Each issue measures 9 x 12 inches and is 16 pages. All have an old vertical folding..... Item #20603
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine. #25 of 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. 8 x 10.5 inches, 333 pp, indexed, with a color frontispiece, 103 illustrations from old prints and photographs, and endpapers and chapter heads by Wiese. Original brown cloth, stamped..... Item #14163
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Wendell, NC: Tobacco Consultants, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 350 pp, extensively illustrated with color photographs. Green cloth boards show mild shelfwear. Binding tight and square, text unmarked. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Intended "to provide growers, industry representatives, county extension agents, agricultural teachers, students..... Item #14084
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. Softcover. Very good. "Author's Edition," printed separately, from the Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for the Year 1888. Original sewn wrappers. Printed slip reading "Compliments of J.M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture" tipped in on verso of front wrapper. pp. 3-5-324 + 13 plates..... Item #20856
