Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1851: Part II Agriculture

Washington, D.C. Robert Armstrong, Printer, 1852. Hardcover. ix, [3], 676 p., 10 leaves of plates: tables; 23 cm. Original brown morocco-grained cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: Patent Office Report 1851 Agriculture. Gilt-stamped at tail of spine: House Doc 102. Blind-stamped emblem on both boards. Small printed label on front fixed endpaper for Whitpain Library; very small handwritten paper label at head of spine. The Whitpain Library Company was a subscription library established in 1817 in Broad Ax, a village in Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania; in 1884 it reported a collection of about 2,000 volumes. Contents: Agriculture and Agricultural Education -- Cultivation of Special Crops -- Cattle-Breeding -- Indigenous North American Ruminants -- Agricultural Circular and Replies -- Agricultural, Commercial, and Manufacturing Statistics -- Meteorological Tables -- Miscellaneous. Includes: History of the Ohio Company for Importing English Cattle by John L. Taylor; reports on the history and status of aspects of agriculture in each state, with relevant observations from people in all parts of the country; data on quantity and value of material transported via the New York canals; and data on other locations where canals facilitated trade, which includes Milan, Ohio, which had a canal to Lake Erie from 1839 to 1867. Includes index. In Very Good- Condition: corners are bumped and rubbed; ends of spine frayed; foxing thoughout, with some pages heavily foxed; otherwise clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #011182

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