Tuesday, May 3rd, 1887, and continuing four days, a partly printed ticket, 3 x 4 7/8 inches, overstamped “Complimentary,” completed in manuscript to admit “Mr. L. Woodhull,” and signed by the association secretary, William E. Mickle (1846-1920; served in the Mobile Cadets, 3rd Alabama Infantry during the Civil War, bookseller..... More
![Item #70275 Farming Facts, Mobile, Alabama [cover title]. AGRICULTURE](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70275.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773348246)
Mobile, (AL): Mobile Chamber of Commerce [Gill Printing Co.], 1927. First edition, prepared by Crawford Advertising Agency. 4to. 24 pp. Illustrated from photographs, climate tables, crop production statistics, etc. Comprehensive overview and promotional for Mobile and vicinity. OCLC locates three copies (Alabama Archives & History, Mobile Public, Alabama). Original two-tone..... More
Mobile, AL: The company, 1850. Printed broadside, 10 x 7 ¾ inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including a nice display type. Products include corn, wheat, wool, beef, milch cows, staves, chickens, eggs, peanuts, and others cotton (not mentioned). This copy has been used, with prices filled in..... More
Cobleskill, NY: Empire Agricultural Works, nd [ca. 1890?]. Printed broadsheet, 32 x 6 ¼ inches, verso with 12 more illustrations of implements from wood engravings and another from a photograph. The company not recorded in Romaine. OCLC locates two 1890s items for the company. Accompanied by another small broadside (“A..... More
Boston, MA: The company, nd [1890 ?]. Business card, 3 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches. Though the factory is substantial, we’ve found little about the company, other than it was operating in the late 19th century. Very good. More
Belfast, (ME): [Ephraim Fellowes ?], [1824, by perpetual calendar]. Printed broadside, 10 x 7 inches (somewhat trimmed), employing several sizes and styles of type, including italics and a large display type for the headline. Nathan Read (1759-1849) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1800-1803; he moved to..... More
Warrenton, NC: Printed at the News office, 1859. First edition (?). Printed broadside, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including an elaborate large ornamental display type for the word "Plow," the entire text enclosed within a wide ornamental border. The text describes two types..... More
![Item #67513 ARKANSAS. 1890. [cover title]. Manufactures Arkansas. Bureau of Mines, and Agriculture](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/67513.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676660960)
[St. Louis, MO]: Woodward & Tiernan printing co., 1890. Original printed green paper wraps. 23 cm. 31pp. Folding map tipped in at the front: "Climatic Map of Arkansas, 1889," [St. Louis, MO: Higgins & Co. Engravers], showing the temperatures, rainfall, and spring frosts in yellow, red, and green. Chipping to..... More
Raleigh, (NC): State Board of Agriculture (M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Public Printers, Winston), 1896. First edition. 166 pp. Primarily colonial and Revolution eras, with a separate genealogy section at the rear. Thornton 13368. Original cloth-backed printed boards (faded at the edges, one old rubbed spot). Very good copy.(3110). More
Buenos Aires: np, 1904. Second edition ("Latest Data"). Tan textured paperwraps (short tears along spine, at head and foot of joints; chipping to spine ends). 8vo.; 136, (4) pp. Folding map tipped in to rear wrapper. Illustrated with photos, charts, and 4 additional folding maps. Small previous owner's name stamp..... More
4to. One-page, approximately 50 words. Folded for mailing, with the accompanying envelope. Very good. More
Ellsworth, (ME): 1826. Manuscript, written as if a broadside. Folio. One-page, approximately 150 words; included in the manuscript are the places around town where events will take place, starting times for the activities (exhibition of the animals and ploughing and hauling matches), information on the gathering places for the annual..... More
