GROUP OF FIVE ANTIQUE COOK AND AGRICULTURE BOOKS

GROUP OF FIVE ANTIQUE COOK AND AGRICULTURE BOOKS

A group of five antique agricultural and cook books and others. The first: Cooks Handbook For Egypt and the Egyptian Sudan by E. A. Wallis Budge, Et All; third edition; published by Thos Cook And Son, Ludgate Circus, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamiton, Kent and Co., London, 1911. The second: Arator, Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political in Sixty One Numbers by Col. John Taylor of Caroline Sounty Virginia; third edition, revised and enlarged; Printed by J. Robinson for John M Carter, Baltimore, 1817. The third: The Martyrs of the Science or The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Sir David Brewster KH DCL; published by Harper and Brothers, 1842. The forth: The Farmers Land Measurer or Pocket Companion, Showing at One View the Content of Any Piece of Land From Dimensions Taken in Yards with a Set of Useful Agricultural Tables, by James Pedder, editor of the Boston Cultivaton; published by C. M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Publisher, New York, 1856; signed on the title page. The fifth: The Year Book of Agriculture, or The Annual of Agricultural Progress and Discovery for 1855 and 1856. Illustrated with numerous engravings by David A Wells A. M.; published by Philadelphia Childs And Peterson, 1856; adorned with a color engraving, Cotton Plant, on the title spread. Antiquarian and Librarian Specimens, Future Incabula Printed Edition Books for Collectors.

Dimensions: Largest item 9 3/8 x 6 x 1 1/8 in. All measurements are approximate.