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Albany NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1866. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, spine ends worn. 12mo; 338 pages. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, fading to spine, tiny holes to cloth along spine, illustrated with 400 engravings. Volume 4 only, covers 1864-5-6.Covers all aspects of agriculture and rural life. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean internally. Record # 410660

Albany: Luther Tucker & Son. VG book. QUITE NICE BUT: sunned spine, minor cover flaws.. 1869. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. NEAR FINE text block. Embossed pebbled brown cloth. Tight. Book stays closed when stood on spine. 8"x5",336pp . 8"x5",336pp. With an extra engraved title page reading: "The Annual Register of Rural Affairs for 1867-8-9". Profusely illustrated with wood cuts, mostly in text but a few full page. Near flawless text block, including all 3 text block edges. Book stays closed when stood on spine. A good sign of having been read with care, if at all. .

Albany: Luther Tucker & Son. VG book, no DJ. QUITE NICE BUT: sunned spine, minor cover flaws.. 1872. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. NEAR FINE text block. Embossed pebbled brown cloth. Tight. Book stays closed when stood on spine. . 8"x5",326pp. With an extra engraved tp reading: "THE ANNUAL REGISTER of RURAL AFFAIRS for 1870-1-2". Profusely illustrated with woodvuts, mostly in text but a few full page. Near flawless text block, including all 3 text block edges. Book stays closed when stood on its spine, a gign of having been read with care, if at all. .

Albany: Luther Tucker & Son. VG book, no DJ. QUITE NICE BUT: sunned spine, minor cover flaws.. 1866. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. NEAR FINE text block. Embossed pebbled brown cloth. Tight. Profusely illustrated with in text wood cuts. . 8"x5",338pp. With an 2nd engraved tp reading: "ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER of RURAL AFFAIRS for 1864-5-6." Profusely illustrated with wood cuts. These are mostly in text but several are full page. Near flawless text block, including all three text block edges. Book stays closed when stood on its spine, a good sign of having been read with care, if at all. .

Luther Tucker & Son, 1877-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Volume 5 only. Brown cloth cover with gilt decoration shows minor wear. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Luther Tucker & Son. Used - Good. Good condition. Volume 5. (agriculture, farming, farms, reference)

Albany: Luther Tucker and Son, 1872. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good copy with edgewear, and some peripheral fading to back cover. Brown stamped cloth with gilt decoration on cover and spine. Annual register for 1870-71-72. 440 engravings. solid tight copy..

This is an antique home, farm and garden volume, "RURAL AFFAIRS - A Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals, and all Farm and Garden Processes" by J.J. Thomas. 1872; Luther Tucker & Son; Albany, NY. Volume III. Profusely illustrated with 440 engravings. Nicely illustrated title page.Here are some examples of the contents: Apple Tree Caterpillar; Designs for Barns; A Model Cellar; Churning Butter; Management of Bees; Culture of Carrots; How to Cure Beef; Bottling Cherries; Langstroth's Bee Hives; Pumpkins for Cows; Rotation of Crops; Laying out Farms; Autumnal Flowers; Hay Sweep; Chapter of Grasses; Hessian Fly; Training Horses; How to Make Young Farmers; Indian Corn; Notes on Manure; Harvesting Peas; Manufacture of Maple Syrup; Facts for Poor Farmers; Bantams; Pens and Coops for Poultry; Nails, Screws and Bolts; Notes on Strawberries; Dimensions of Cattle Stables;… Read More

This is an antique home, farm and garden volume, "RURAL AFFAIRS - A Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals, and all Farm and Garden Processes" by J.J. Thomas. 1869; Luther Tucker & Son; Albany, NY. Volume V. Profusely illustrated with 400 engravings. Nicely illustrated title page. From the Preface: "The design is to include as much practical information as can be condensed within their compass, on various topics of Agricultural, Horticultural and Domestic interest; and from copiousness of illustration, to render them the most beautiful and attractive, as well as among the most comprehensive and useful books on the subjects to which they are devoted.""Reading matter" consists of Farming, Orchard culture, Rural Architecture, Landscape Gardening, flower and Kitchen Gardening, Raising and Marketing the Small Fruits, Entomology, the Management of Poultry and Bees, Farm… Read More

Albany: Luther Tucker & Son, 1860. Original full black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Faded gilding. Blind stamped decorative border around the covers. Numerous illustrations throughout of diagrams to build houses, architectural designs for houses and bird coups. Layout of grounds for a farm. All very interesting. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition.. Full Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Albany NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1872. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover with some dampstaining and edgewear, notably to spine ends. Spine cloth faded. Binding sound. Front cover with bright gold design of fruit filled basket. Interior clean and intact with some light dampstainig to top gutter area of some front pages. Otherwise a very nice copy. 326 pages.