1951, ISBN: f850f9cef5013a4e7e33ac4aece23726

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. 2-volume set. Volume I: xiv, [2], 298, [2] pages; Volume II: [8], 281, [1] pages. Illustrations… More...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. 2-volume set. Volume I: xiv, [2], 298, [2] pages; Volume II: [8], 281, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Worthington Chauncey Ford (February 15, 1858 ? March 7, 1941) was an American historian and editor of a number of collections of documents from early American history. He served in a variety of government positions: first, as the chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Department of State, from 1885?1889, then at the U.S. Department of Treasury, 1893?1898, then as chief of the manuscripts division at the Library of Congress from 1902?1908. He also served as Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University from 1917?1922. Ford was best known for his edited collections of a number of Founding Fathers documents. He also edited collections of the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and other figures in early American history. Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 ? November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. He was a son of President John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams, about whom he wrote a major biography. Adams served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate before running unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former president Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War, Adams served as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he played a key role in keeping the British government neutral and not diplomatically recognizing the Confederacy. Adams became an overseer of Harvard University and built Adams National Historical Park, a library in Quincy, Massachusetts honoring his father. He became U.S. minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's (Britain), a post previously held by his father and grandfather, from 1861 to 1868., Houghton Mifflin, 1920, 2.5, Albany, NY: New York State Agricultural Society, 1933. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xiii, [3], 462, [2] pages. Illustrations selected by the Author. Illustrations include half-tone inserts and Text Figures and Maps. There is a section on Books Helpful to the Author and an Index. DJ has wear, tears and soiling. The twenty chapter are: The Forest, Indian Agriculture, Land, The Agricultural Legacy of the Colony, Migrations, Agricultural Organizations, Sustaining Industries, Turnpikes, Country Life a Hundred Years Ago, Country Food and Drink, Waterways, Railways, Some Curious Inter-Relations of Religion and Agriculture, Human Labor Displaced by Machinery, The Printing Press and the Farmer, Farm Crops, Livestock Industries, Horticulture: "An Elegant Branch of Husbandry", The State Aids Agriculture, and Readjustments. Printed for the New York State Agricultural Society. The author was the Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at the time of publication. The New York Times wrote: There is nothing dry or formal about this book, which is full of unexpected plums. One guesses that the author had a good time writing it. He was asked to do so by the State Agricultural Society, the Legislature and Governor Roosevelt having in 1931 authorized its preparation as a part of the centennial celebration of the society. Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870-1951) was an American botanist and horticulturist. His main interest was cultivated fruit trees and he published a number of volumes dealing with such fruits as cherries, grapes, plums, and peaches. Hedrick was born in 1870 in Independence, Iowa. He grew up in Northern Michigan near Harbor Springs, an experience recalled in his memoir The Land of the Crooked Tree. He attended Michigan State Agricultural College (MSAC), now Michigan State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1893 and a Master of Science degree in 1895. He worked as Assistant Horticulturist at MSAC from 1893 to 1895, while studying for his M.S. From 1895 to 1905, Hedrick taught botany and horticulture at Oregon Agricultural College (1895-1897), Utah Agricultural College (1897-1899), and Michigan State Agricultural College (1899-1905). He became a horticulturist at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York in 1905. While in Geneva, Hedrick was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree at Hobart College in 1913. He continued to work at the Station, which he directed from 1928 onwards, until 1937, when he retired. Hedrick was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911, and of the New York State Historical Association and a member of the American Society for Horticultural Science (president 1913) and American Pomological Society. During his lifetime, he authored or co-authored more than a dozen publications, which are "still frequently consulted", on the subjects of pomology and horticulture. His monographs on fruits, including publications such as The Pears of New York (1922), "have become classic references on the fruit cultivars of the period", New York State Agricultural Society, 1933, 2.75<

1951, ISBN: f850f9cef5013a4e7e33ac4aece23726

np: New York State Agricultural Society, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to first few pages, else very good in moderately worn jacket with cello tape mends. xiii, 462 pp., … More...

np: New York State Agricultural Society, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to first few pages, else very good in moderately worn jacket with cello tape mends. xiii, 462 pp., profusely illustrated with half-tones, text figures, and maps; octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles, pictorial jacket. This history was commissioned by an act of legislature to commemorate the centennial of the founding of the New York State Agricultural Society. Author U. P. Hedrick (1870-1951) was an accomplished botanist and horticulturalist who came to the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in 1905 and became its director in 1928, retiring in 1937., New York State Agricultural Society, 1933, 3<

1933, ISBN: f850f9cef5013a4e7e33ac4aece23726

Hardcover

Hard cover, 462 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps, index, bibliography. Green cloth over boards; gilt lettering, Very good. No dust jacket. Clean and tight original; not a reprin… More...

Hard cover, 462 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps, index, bibliography. Green cloth over boards; gilt lettering, Very good. No dust jacket. Clean and tight original; not a reprint. Slight yellowing from age. Deckled edges. A very nice copy!, [ED: 1], New York state; agriculture; farming; communities; Indian agriculture; turnpikes; waterways; railways; crops; farm labor; farm machinery, "...an account. of communities of farmers shaping the destinies of their common life as they took possession of a new land..." Begins with the earliest settlements and ends with the 19th century..., Albany, [PU: New York State Agricultural Society]<

1933, ISBN: f850f9cef5013a4e7e33ac4aece23726

ALBANY N Y: NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1933. BOOK IS IN GREAT SHAPE SOLID CLEAN AND VERY BRIGHT BOUND IN GREEN WITH PERFECT GILT LETTERING A GREAT REFERENCE FOREDGE UNCUT FROM T… More...

ALBANY N Y: NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1933. BOOK IS IN GREAT SHAPE SOLID CLEAN AND VERY BRIGHT BOUND IN GREEN WITH PERFECT GILT LETTERING A GREAT REFERENCE FOREDGE UNCUT FROM THE LIBRARY OF ADELBERT COLLEGE MINIMAL MARKINGS POCKET STILL HAS ORIGINAL CARD BOOKPLATE IN FRONT APPARENTLY SAW VERY LITTLE USE LIGHT WEAR AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE A REALLY NICE COPY. FIRST.. HARD COVER. Fine/NoNE. Illus. by PHOTOS DRAWINGS DIAGRAMS., NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1933, 5<