Antique Library Catalogue State Board Agriculture Massachusetts 1899 History

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Antique Library Catalogue: State Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts. Prepared and arranged by Frederick H. Fowler. Printed by Wright & Potter Printing Co.: Boston, June 1, 1899. 125 pp. plus 2-page index. Hardcover. Orange brown Cloth; title in gilt on front cover. The extensive Library Collection included books, pamphlets, newspapers and magazine on the topics of agriculture, horticulture, forestry national sciences, etc., with the oldest book "The Booke of the English Husbandman" printed in 1685 London, and works on the  honey-bee, which at that time was "believed to be
the best and most extensive in the country". Good tight copy; few small spots on back cover; extremities rubbed, esp. head and tail of spine; corner tips bumped; area of damp-staining to front endpapers, little light foxing, front pastedown some wrinkling of the paper; rear endpapers some foxing; few pencil ticks to book descriptions. Excellent 19th century reference work on an improtant American Library, and its holdings in the subjects of Agriculture, the Natural Sciences, Husbandry, Forestry. SEE IMAGES!