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Agricultural Implements, Agricultural Products, Live Stock, Horticulture, Pisciculture BOOK DESCRIPTION...This Very Profusely Illustrated Text on Agriculture is Volume 5 from a larger set that contained Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition in 1878. Several countries are represented, with Drawings of Agricultural and Farm Implements depicted from France, England, Norway, and the United States. Many Wonderful Illustrations include a frontispiece plate of Heliotype Printing and other plates, many with tissue guards; fold-out maps and plans; numerous steel engravings; plus tables and diagrams! SELLER'S COMMENTS...A FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS and NORWEGIAN FISHING BOATS! * Agricultural Implements by Edward H. Knight * 259 Illustrations includes 2 fold-out maps, full-page plates and partial-page engravings * Field of Petit-Bourg (Plow Trials) * Field of Marmont (Harvesting Machinery Trials) * Trials at Esplanade des Invalides * Agricultural Products by John J. Woodman * Live Stock by Samuel Dysart * Horticulture by George W. Campbell * Pisciculture by Thomas B. Ferguson * 30 Illustrations, including 24 plates and 3 fold-out plans of the Aquarium of Trocadero * Nations exhibiting at the Expo included: Argentine Republic, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway and the U.S. * Sevres Vase: awarded to "Machines of Exceptional Merit," at the Field Trials of Agricultural Implements (frontispiece photograph) * Map - Field of Petit-Bourg; trials of plows, steam-plows, ditching-machines, etc * Map - Field of Marmont; trials of reapers, mowers, etc * French wooden mold-board plow * Charrue a chaine (Monterau) * Plow mounted with avant-train (Nancy) * Brabant simple (Monterau); Brabant plow-body (4 views) * One-wheeled plow: Large two-wheeled plow, with jointer (Rennes) * Movable-point plow (Segre) * French tourne-oreille (Liancourt) * Turning mold-board plow (Moulins) * Moulins Brabant double plow * Beet-root puller (Delahaie-Tailleur & Bajac, Liancourt) * Leveling implement, with 5 plows * Bisoc; Single plow; Mole-plow; Draining plow; Trenching plow; Ridging plow; Clearing plow * "Bridle" pattern wheel-plow (Grantham) * Revolving mold board plow (Shrewsbury) * Double-furrow plow (Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Ipswich) * Three-furrow plow (Ipswich) * Potato-digger (Penney & Co., Lincoln) * Michigan rod-beam plow (Gale Manufacturing Co., Albion, MI) * Iron-beam plow (Deere & Co., Moline, Illinois) * Center-lever plow (A. Speer & Sons, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) * Hillside plow (Pittsburgh, PA) * Reese combination plow (York, PA) * Gilpin's sulky plow (Deere & Co., Moline, IL) * Potato-digger (Pittsburgh, PA) STEAM PLOWS and CULTIVATORS, Etc * Howard's roundabout tackle (Rennes) * Engine and windlass for the roundabout system; Installation of the roundabout system of A. Debains (Saint-Remy) * French horse-hoe; Extirpateur * Scarifier (B. Breloux, Nevers, France) * Fertilizer-sower (L.P. Josse, Ormesson) * Double-engine steam-plowing tackle (John Fowler & Co., Leeds) * Locomotive for the double-engine system; (Aveling & Porter, Rochester) * Farmer's engine for all purposes (J & F Howard, Bedford) * Single-engine and headland-anchor plan of installation * Engine with two winding-drums * Roundabout plan of installation; Windlass for the roundabout system; Anchor for the roundabout system; Portable engine and rear windlass for the roundabout system * Roundabout system with detached windlass; Roundabout system, engine, and windlass combined; Self-acting and self-moving anchor (Barford & Perkins, Peterborough, England) * Six-furrow balance-plow; Three-furrow balance-plow; Plow and subsoiler; Steam-grubber; Double-action steam-cultivator; Turning cultivator; Turning harrow; Steam-harrow; Combined harrow and seeder; Steam-roller * Disking machine; Draining-plow; Reclamation plow * English lever-cultivator (Corbett & Peale, Shrewsbury) * Telescopic seed-tube (J. Smyth & Sons, Peasenhall) * "Peerless" Cultivator (Deere & Co., Moline, IL) * Kuhn's grain-drill; and Force-feed (Farmer's Friend Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio) * American change-wheel arrangement * Combined drill and fertilizer (Dayton, OH) * Seed sower (Rasmussen, Stubbekjobing, Denmark) HARVESTING MACHINERY - Reapers and Mowers * Dropper (J. Cumming, Orleans) * Horse-rake (C. Guilleux, Segre) * Riding horse-rake (Lhuillier, Dijon) * One-horse overhead horse-power (T. Gantreau, Dourdan) * Hand-thrashing machine (Texier & Fils, Vitre) * Huller for clover, lucern, etc (Bronhot & Co., Vierzon) * Aspirating winnower (A. Girardin, Etampes) * Grain-sorter; Grain-crusher; Vineyard plow; Grape-mill * Hydraulic press (Mannequin, Troyes) * Toggle-press; Forage-press; Wine and cider press * Harvesting by the Electric Light * "Progress" self-raker (R. Hornsby & Sons, Grantham) * Sweep-rake, single-wheel reaper * "Paragon" mower (R. Hornsby) * Steam-reaper (Aveling & Porter) * Self-dumping riding horse-rake; Walking hay-rake; Turning rake * First-class thrasher (Ruston, Proctor & Co., Lincoln) * Straw-stacker (Marshall, Sons & Co., Gainsborough) * Binding reaper (Cyrus H. McCormick, Chicago, IL) * Binding reaper (Walter A. Wood, Hoosick Falls, New York) * Binding reaper (D.M. Osborne & Co., Canton, OH) * String-binding reaper (Johnston Harvester Company, Brockport, NY) * Single-wheel sweep-rake reaper * Whiteley's "Champion" sweep-rake single-wheel reaper (Warder, Mitchell & Co., Springfield, OH) * Single-horse reaper (Walter Wood) * Whiteley's "New Champion" mower; with oscillating cog-gear * One horse mower (Walter Wood) * New "Buckeye" mower (Aultman & Co., Canton, OH) * "Eagle" mower (Wm. Anson Wood, Albany, NY) * Hollingsworth horse-rake (John Dodd, Dayton, OH) * Ornamental and Geometric flower beds * Espalier fruit trees: peach, apple, pear * Candelabrum-training, fan-training, spiral-training * Small greenhouse, with iron frame, wooden frame * Curved-glass sash for hot-beds * Model ornamental greenhouse, designed by M. Michaux * Frame and bell-glass or cloche, for salads and young plants * Permanent hot-bed, heated by hot-water pipes * Adjustable protection of straw matting for cloches * Group of horticultural tools in the Exposition * Open-work iron grating, in four sections, around trees in asphalt pavement in Paris * Large trellis, with plates of glass, exhibited at Versailles * Grape-vines as trained at Thomery on walls, with projecting coping above PISCICULTURE (FISH and FISH CULTURE) * Fresh-water Aquarium of the Trocadero * Plan of the Aquarium (3 fold-out plans) * Sections of the Aquarium, horizontal and vertical * Sectional elevations of the Aquarium * Madraques used in the Mediterranean in the mackerel and Spanish mackerel fisheries * Norwegian vessel for transporting fish * Twelve-oared fishing boat of Norway * Cod and herring fishing boats of Norway * Herring fishing boat of Lundfiord * Norwegian seine-fishing boat * Police sloop for the fishing grounds * Seine-fishing boat of Hardanger * Gill-net fishing boat of Hardanger * Four-oared fishing boat of Norway * Norwegian six-oared fishing boat * Apparatus for aerating the water supplied to the Aquarium of the Trocadero * Fishing smacks of Aalesund * Williamson's California fish-hatching apparatus * Wilmot's fish-hatching apparatus * Carbonnier's can for transporting fish BOOK CONDITION...Original green cloth boards with blindstamped borders and gilt embossed French coin design to covers, embossed gilt lettering to spine. Moderate overall wear to covers with heavier wear to corners and chipping to spine edges. Hinges and binding cracked. Interior pages age-toned, but appear to be intact and generally nice and clean. Page edges are rough cut. Previous owner name from 1884 in ink on front flyleaf. Overall Condition rated as Good! PUBLISHER DETAILS...1880 edition published by Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. Published under direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of Congress. Book size is approximately 6.5 x 10.0 inches and contains 702 pages. A fantastic addition to your collection - SEE SCANS BELOW! |