#131 • 1856 US Patent Office Report Agriculture Books Set With Lithograph Plates

Part of FAR 777 - The Splendor of Yesteryear: Fine Antiques, Art & Historic Treasures (timed auction by Farmer Auctions)

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Two hardbound volumes of the "Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1855: Agriculture," published in Washington by Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1856 (34th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 12). Bound in blind-stamped brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spines. The interior contents detail 19th-century agricultural trade, crops, and livestock, accompanied by illustrated plates including Wagner & McGuigan chromolithographs of North Devon cattle, engraved plates depicting Cashmere goats, and a drainage map of Haarlem Lake. Both volumes show interior period inscriptions and markings. Two volume set. Location-Library