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The Farmer's Assistant. The subjects on which this work treats, are numerous, embracing every article relating to agriculture, arranged in alphabetical order
by Nicholson, John
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Albany: Printed by H.C. Southwick, No. 94, State-Street, 1814. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.) [vii], 327, [1] pages Errata on final page; Subscriber list. FIRST EDITION. The following year, a second printing was issued with the descriptive subtitle, "a complete treatise on agriculture in general: also, upon the various subjects of gardening, fruit-trees, farriery, and the dairy, arranged in alphabetical order to which is added a copious index". John Nicholson, Esq. (1765-1820) was from New York's Herkimer County, and he employs this guide to farming as type of patriotism for the still young nation. Text-block foxed throughout. In the original printer's binding, untrimmed; three quarter sugar paper over orange paper spine, titled and with decorative printed bands. Some rubbing and light staining to boards; paper spine chipped away at foot and hinges just started. Still, attractive and scarce in a wholly original, and attractive, binding. Ink ownership inscription to free front endpaper, "William [illeg.]". [OCLC locates twenty-three copies of this first issue; American Imprints 32356; Rink 1166].
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- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7098
- Title
- The Farmer's Assistant. The subjects on which this work treats, are numerous, embracing every article relating to agriculture, arranged in alphabetical order
- Author
- Nicholson, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by H.C. Southwick, No. 94, State-Street
- Place of Publication
- Albany
- Date Published
- 1814
- Keywords
- agriculture, american, husbandry, farming, farm & garden, abaa-vbf, book, book
- Bookseller catalogs
- farm & garden;
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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Alfred, Maine
About Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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