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31st. Congress, 2nd Session. Includes articles about aboriginal
arts, including goldsmithing of the Aztecs, spinning and weaving by the
Aztecs, and spinning and weaving by the Indians of New Mexico. Also includes
a report on early machinery in America - the saw mill. The communications
section includes correspondence received regarding: dyeing, spinning and
weaving by Indians, Navaho blankets, paper making, type founding, repairing
cast iron in China, Chinese tile making, pin making, and San Torina Earth -
an underwater cement. There are a few state reports, but Connecticut has a
large section detailing several new businesses and inventions, nearly fifty
pages, with anything from snuff to stocking weaving, from type founding to
bells, from hemp and flax to torpedoes. Quarter calf over marbled boards, 676
pages. |
| 1852 |
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CONTENTS: "Agriculture and Education", "American
Pomology", "The Potato - Its Natural History - Deterioration, and
Improvement", Southern Agricultural Exhaustion, and Its Remedt",
"The Cotton Trade". [CONDITION: Acceptable for reading except for
serious foxing. Needs to be scanned
before it deteriorates.] |
| 1853 |
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[CONDITION: Poor. Foxing throughout. Missing plates.] CONTENTS:
Domestic Cattle: horned cattle; cashmere, scinde and malta goats; dairies;
horses, asses, mules; sheep; wool; swine; weatherization of animals;
importation of camels; importation of skylarks; importation and protection of
useful birds; poultry and eggs; bees; wax; honey, silk. Fertilizers: guano;
bone-dust; turners' shavings; lime; superphosphate; gypsum; salt; ashes;
stable & barnyard manure; clover; straw; swamp & pond muck; sawdust.
Improvement of Land: meadows; corn land; ploughing. Bread Crops: Indian corn;
wheat; rye; barley; oats; buckwheat; rice; potatoes; potato disease. Textile
& Forage Crops: cotton; investigation of its fiber; cotton of India;
flax; hemp; osier; grass, hay, other fodder; beans, peas; Mexican frijoles;
Oregon pea; Japan pea; cowpea; colza, or rape. Miscellaneous Crops: sugar;
tobacco; hops; indigo. Fruits, Wine, etc.: apples; cider; vinegar; pears;
peaches; apricots; nectarines; plums; cherries; quinces; grapes; wine;
blackberries; currants; gooseberries; cranberries; melons. Climatology:
agricultural climatology of the U.S. compared with the world. |
| 1854 |
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[CONTENTS: Interesting
descriptive listing of gardening plants - vegetables and herbs. Two color plates of cattle. Several black & white plates of
insects. |
| 1855 |
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CONTENTS: Report on the seeds and cuttings recently obtained by
the patent office with suggestions as to the expediency of introducing
others, Domestic Animals, Insects, Improvement of Land. on the drainage of
Haarlem Lake, with suggestions on its applicability to overflowed lands in
the U.S., Fertilizers. on the purification of cities and towns; the
deodorisation of their fecal matter; and its removal and conversion into
manure, Bread Crops, Textile and Forage Crops, Fruits, Nuts and Wine,
Climatology, Commercial Statistics.
488 pages. [CONDITION: Missing
plates 2 & 3 - presumably color.] |
| 1855 |
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488 pages. The book has
no writing and no tears. The binding
is cracked at pages 481-488 but the pages are still affixed to the
binding. Some of the pages have
yellowed and there are beige spots on some of the pages. Page 311 has a piece missing, pages 183 and
185 are partially detached and several of the page corners are bent. The cover is has wear and fraying along the
edges and spine, the spine is cracked at the back cover, the back cover is partially detached and
there are some spots on the cover. |
| 1856 |
office |
[CONDITION: Cover is separated from signatures. First signature in the book consists of
plates of engravings. The first four
plates, as well as index and an unknown number of introoductory pages are
missing. Foxing throughout.
Topics include: Apples for gardens; analysis of bagasse of sorgho sucre;
birds injurious to agriculture; calcarreous manures; cherries for northern localities;
cotton circular; dairy management; drainage; agricultural exports by port;
fruits for gardens; fruits grown in several states; grape culture in the
U.S.; Arden horses; habits of horses; meteorology & agriculture; types of
mice; nut trees in Virginia; peaches; American Pomological Society;
quadrupeds injurious & beneficial to farmers; habits of sheep; managment
of strawberries; arrangement of farm tools; varieties of vines; wine culture
in Ohio. Cornelius Wendell, Printer. 536 pages with 50 illustrative plates -
including three color lithographs (missing in our copy). |
| 1857 |
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Contents:Nature & habits of the honey bee; insects &
diseases affecting the cotton plant; early agricultural history of Illinois;
progress of agriculture in Russia, Prussia, and the United States; the
quadrupeds of Illinois injurious & beneficial to the farmer (including
pocket gopher, common grey rabbit, northern hare, red mouse, meadow-mouse,
porcupine, shrews, moles, weasels); briefs on farm animals (including English
draught horse, sheep, Asiatic goat, the llama & alpaca); history &
commerce of salt in the U.S.; bread crops - characteristics of wheat;
tea-culture in the U.S.; sorgum canes; chemical analysis of Indian corn;
American grape vines of the Atlantic States; grape culture in Missouri;
principles of horticulture; agricultural capabilities of the Great Plains;
cotton manufacturers in the U.S.; consumption of cotton in Europe; meteorlogy
in its connection with agriculture.
James B. Stephen, Printer. 551 pages.
Very few illustrations. |
| 1858 |
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Contents: Primary &
agricultural schools of the U.S. by state; collection of American
agricultural statistics; condensed reports of local state & county
agricultural societies in 1858; domestication of the elk; proposed
introduction of the Yak-ox to the Great Plains; briefs on animals (skunk,
racoon, badger, black bear, otter, weasel); insects of orange trees of
Florida; insects injurious to the cotton plant in Florida; drainage &
improvement of lands; Government Propagating garden at Washington D.C.;
causes & effects of the diminution of American crops; U.S. agricultural
exports; propsed improvements in prairie farming; analysis of the ashes of
the tobacco plant; on the cutting & curing of hay; the American pine
marten; cultivation of coffee; production of arrow-root in the South;
vitality of seeds; grape & wine culture; grapes & wine of Los
Angeles; cultivation of the Zante Currant grape; cultivation of grapes in New
England; fruiy culture; pomological resources of the South (apples, pears,
peaches, grapes, strawberries, and more)' condensed State reports of the
American Pomological Society (District of Columbia, Connecticut, Georgia,
Illinois, Massachussetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Virginia); meterology & its connection with agriculture. James B. Stephen, Printer. 552 pages. |
| 1859 |
office |
CONTENTS: Acclimation and domestication of animals, acid,
analysis of grapes, administiring medicine to animals, wine making, breeding
of fish, crops, fertilizers, vegetables, gardens, horse stable construction
and arrangement of, houses/farms...some hints upon, lime, magnesia,
medicines, meterology, reports on plants used as food for man, roots and
soiling in England, salt, stables, fences and herding of animals, cost of
board fences, docility of animals, lots of stuff on tobacco, veterinary
information, wine and wine making, paw paw sprirts and its uses in making
alcohol. There are several illustrations of farm houses and their floor plans
with lots of "Hints" about them. Several illustrations/pictures
dealing with meteorology and the instruments used in studying it along with
electricity. 590 pages. |
| 1859 |
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CONTENTS: Acclimation and domestication of animals, acid,
analysis of grapes, administiring medicine to animals, wine making, breeding
of fish, crops, fertilizers, vegetables, gardens, horse stable construction
and arrangement of, houses/farms...some hints upon, lime, magnesia,
medicines, meterology, reports on plants used as food for man, roots and
soiling in England, salt, stables, fences and herding of animals, cost of
board fences, docility of animals, lots of stuff on tobacco, veterinary
information, wine and wine making, paw paw sprirts and its uses in making
alcohol. There are several illustrations of farm houses and their floor plans
with lots of "Hints" about them. Several illustrations/pictures
dealing with meteorology and the instruments used in studying it along with
electricity. 590 pages. |
| 1860 |
office |
36th Congress, 2nd session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc.
No. 48. CONTENTS: Bee culture, cattle disease, Chinese
agriculture, forest and trees of North America, grape culture and wine
making, irrigation, tea. 504 pages. |
| 1861 |
office |
[CONDITION: Foxing througout. Brown cover] |
| 1861 |
office |
[CONDITION: Foxing througout.
Blue cover.] |
| 1861 |
office |
656 pages. [CONDITION:
Very good, some loosening to pages.
Brown cover.] |
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