Sugar Canes and their Products Culture and Manufacture; by the author of Sorgo, the Northern Sugar Plant & secretary of Mississippi Valley Cane Grower's Assoc. with an introduction by Geo. C. W. Belcher
by HEDGES, Isaac A.;
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
St. Louis, by the author, 1879, First edition. . original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, lightly foxed on one preliminary page, spine lightly faded but lettering clear, near fine with a presentation inscription by author on endpaper. . 12mo [17 x 13 cm]; [vi, xvii, 170 pp, illustrations and engraved plates including folding plates of equipment, colored plate of litmus, tables. . A detailed work on the growing and especially on the manufacture and process with good illustrations of the equipment. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- Bookseller
- Horizon Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J12295
- Title
- Sugar Canes and their Products Culture and Manufacture; by the author of Sorgo, the Northern Sugar Plant & secretary of Mississippi Valley Cane Grower's Assoc. with an introduction by Geo. C. W. Belcher
- Author
- HEDGES, Isaac A.;
- Format/Binding
- Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, lightly foxed on one preliminary page, spine lightly faded but letteri
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- St. Louis, by the author, 1879, First edition.
- Size
- 12mo [17 x 13 cm]; [vi, xvii, 17
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture;
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