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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. These worms were of particular interest as they caused much damage to crops, especially cotton. With two fold out maps and 64 plates of which 6 are chromolithographs. Bound in the original dark brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Spine has faded to a lighter brown and gilt title now appears black. Rubbing, chipping, and spotting to book cloth with wear to edges and corners. Spots of foxing to first and last few pages, but clean overall. Creasing to a few corners. 399 pages, plates, 147 pages of appendices. NAT/082522.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: maple sugar and syrup, germination of seed corn, cucumbers, home vegetable garden, preperation of vegetables for the table, soil fertility, texas tick fever and its prevention, seed of red clover and its impurities, cattle tick, practical information for beginners in irrigation, brown tail moth and how to control it, game laws for 1906, management of soils to conserve moisture, industrial alcohol, modern conveniences for teh farm home, forage crop practices in Western Oregon and Western Washington, a successful hog and seed-corn farm, flax culture, gipsy moth and how to control it, and experiment stations XXXIV - XXXVIII Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: use of alcohol and gasoline in farm engines, leguminous crops for green manuring, method of eradicating Johnson grass, profitable tenant dairy farm, celery, spraying for apple diseases and codling moth in the Ozarks, insect and fungus enemies of the grape East of Rocky mountains, advantage of planting heavy cotton seed, comparative value of whole cotton seed and cotton seed meal in fertilizing cotton, poultry management, nonsaccharine sorgums, beans, cotton bollworm, evaporation of apples, cost of filling silos, use of fruit as food, farm practice in Columbia basin uplands, potatoes and other root crops as food, methods of destroying rats, food value of corn and corn products, diversified farming under the plantation system, some important grasses and forage plants for gulf coast region, and experiment stations XXXIX - XLI. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 159, 160, 161, 163, 165, 168, 171, 180, and 184. Subjects of present bulletins include: propagation of plants, How to build small irrigation ditches, experiment station work XXI, XXII, and XXIII, rape as a forage crop, cheese making on the farm, Cassava, principles of horse feeding, scale insects and mites on citris trees, primer of forestry, Broom corn, home manufacture and use of unfermented grape juice, Cranberry culture, Squab raising, insects injurious in cranberry culture, horseshoeing, Pruning, Poultry as food, Meat on the farm, and Beautifying the Home Grounds. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Front… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 123, 124, 125, 129, 130, 132, 135, 136, 141, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 151, and 153. Topics include: The Principal Insects Affecting the Tobacco Plant; Beans, Peas, and Other Legumes as Food; Experiment Station Work XVI - XX; Practical Suggestions for Farm Buildings; Important Insecticides; Eggs and Their Uses as Food; Household Tests for the Detection of Oleomargarine and Renovated Butter; Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds; The Angora Goat; Irrigation in Field and Garden; Emmer: A Grain for the Semiarid Regions; Pineapple Growing; Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food; Clearing New Land; Scabies of Cattle; The Home Fruit Garden; and How Insects Affect Health in Rural Districts. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: Game laws for 1909, harmfulness of headache mixtures, exterminating Texas-fever tick, Hog cholera, loco-weed disease, adulteration of forage-plant seeds, experiement station work LIV, LV, LVI, How to destroy English sparrows, boys' and girls agricultural clubs, potato culture on irrigated farms in west, preservation of farm timbers, bread and butter making, pheasant raising, economical use of meat in home, irrigation of sugar beets, habit-forming agents, use of windmillls in irrigation in semiarid west, sixty-day adn Kherson oats, the muskrat, bees, commercial fertilizers, irrigation of grain, and more profitable corn planting methods. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: building of a run-down cotton plantation, conservation of natural resources, silver fox farming, deer farming in US, forage crops fro hogs in Kansas and Oklahoma, Nuts and their uses as food, cotton wilt, harmful and beneficial mammals of the arid interior, game laws for 1908, cropping systems for New England dairy farms, Macadam roads, alfalfa, Declaration for governors for conservation of natural resources, the basket willow, cultivation of tobacco in Kentucky, the boll-weevil problem, some common disinfectants, computation of rations for farm animals by the use of Energy values, repair of farm equiptment, bacteria of milk, dairy industry in south, dehorning of cattle, and experiment stations XLVII - XLIX. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: home-grown, tea, island cotton, corn-harvesting machinery, growing and curing hops, experiment station XLI - XLVI, Dodder in relation to farm seeds, Roselle: Culture and Use, game laws for 1907, Successful Alabama diversification farm, sand-clay and burnt-clay roads, successful Southern hay farm, Harvesting adn storing corn, method of breeding early cotton to escape boll-weevil damage, progress in legume inoculation, cowpeas, demonstration work in cooperation with Southern farmers, use of the split-log drag on earth roads, milo as a dryland crop, clover farming in North, Sweet potatoes, and small farms in the corn belt. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: Tuberculosis test of cattle, Nevada mouse plague of 1907 - 8, Experiment Station Work L, Onion culture, Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm, Peanuts, Poultry Management in Maine, Forestry, Canning Vegetables in the Home, Experiment Station LI, Meadow Fescue, Market Hay Value, Use of Milk as Food, Profitable Cotton Farm, Farm Management in Northern Potato-Growing Sections, Experiment Station Work LII, Lightning, Eradication of Bindweed, How to destroy rats, Replanning a Farm for Profit, Drainage of Irrigated Lands, Soy Beans, Irrigation of Alalfa, Experiment Station Work LIII, and Care of Food in the Home. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 189, 191, 197, 199, 201, 207, 208, 211, 212, 214 - 217, Topics include: Weeds used in Medicine, Experiement Station Work XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, Barnyard Manure, Alfalfa Seed, Annual Flowering Plants, Usefulness of the American toad, Importation of Game Birds and Eggs for Propagation, Strawberries, Turkeys, Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies: Household Methods and Preservation, The Cultivation of Mushrooms, Pig Management; Milk Fever: Its Simple and Successful Treatment, Controlling the Boll Weevil in Cotton Seed and at Ginneries, Raspberries, The School Garden, Lessons from the Grain-Rust Epidemic of 1904, Tomatoes, and Fungous Diseases of the Cranberry. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher,… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 227, 230, 235, 240, and 247. Topics include: Cotton insects in Texas, Canadian Field Peas, Forest Planting and Farm Management, Production of Good Seed Corn, Spraying for Cucumber and Melon Diseases, Okra: Culture and Uses, Guinea Fowl and its use as food, Incubation and Incubators, Citrus Fruit Growing in teh Gulf States, the Corrosion of Fence Wire, Butter Making on the Farm, An Example of Modern Farming, Fungicides and Their Use in Preventing Diseases of Fruits, Renovation of Worn-Out Soils, Saccarine Sorghums for Forage, The Lawn, Cereal Breakfast Foods, Experiment Station Work XXVIII - XXXIIIand The Prevention of Stinking Smut of Wheat and Loose Smut of Oats. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Front… Read More

New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Scuffing to boards and minor wear to corners & edges. Minor discoloration to rear board. Interior is clean with bright text. Binding is a little loose, but pages all remain securely held in place. 652 pp.

Breslau: Robert Nischkowsky, 1870. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. In Wraps. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Lacks original wraps. Outside wrapper is lightly soiled and darkened; light chipping to edges and antiquated ink inscription to top right corner of front cover. Interior is browned w/some light spotting but overall text remains bright and clear. In German. 44 pp. SCI/021204.

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in wraps German. GER1211151.

Wien, 1879. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in blue wrappers German. GER911151.

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in wraps German. GER1111151.

Tours: Alfred Mame Et Fils, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Second edition, reviewed and enlarged. Very good in red cloth with faded gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. Gilt lettering on front board states "Institution de Madame Audousset." Marbled endpapers, full gilt edges, raised bands on spine, and engraved frontis with tissue. iIlustrated throughout with engravings. There is intermittent foxing throughout. Thick quarto. 400 pages. French History. FRE104260.

Paris: Ferdinand Sartorius, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hardcover. SCARCE. Rebacked with green cloth. Original black decorative paper covered boards. Heavy rubbing to boards. Top 3rd of half title page has been torn out. Text is clean and bright with very little foxing. 282 pages + ads. French Language. FRELANG/102315.

Banca Popolare di Verona, 1983. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jackets. Hardcover. Fine in blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spines and embossed emblems to front boards. Pristine interiors filled with black and white photographic illustrations. Blue dust jackets with white titles to spines and front panels of jackets. Light wear to edges of jackets. Also, the plastic film covering the jackets has pulled up a little on the spines of both volumes. Text in Italian. A scarce set in excellent condition. 626 pages. ITA/042508 This set may require an extra shipping fee.

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1994. Fine. Number 100. Signed by the book artists. An old record that has been re-produced by the Purgatory Pie Press with a new label printed on both sides: "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Lame!" and "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Worse!" This "random re-issue" pokes fun at bad records with lots of typos, slogans, and gimmicks. The words 'Lame / Stale' and 'Worse / Fukt-Fi' have been scratched into the record. The record sleeve is printed with information about the fictitious Roberta N Bob fan club and is also signed by them. The plastic bag that covers the sleeve has several stickers which further emphasize the poor record quality "30 years after ... New British Infestation", "This record waz wuns mor popular than it is NOW", etc. The label, sleeve, and stickers are letterpress printed. PRI/010213.