Holmes, Ezekiel, editor:

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THE NEW-ENGLAND FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' JOURNAL. Vol. I [all published]. A complete run of twelve issues of this useful and informative early 19th-century American scientific and agricultural periodical, covering the year 1828. Each issue numbers twenty-four pages, and the whole is continuously paginated. The articles cover machining, animal husbandry, horticulture, tanning animal hides, growing hemp, making cider, managing bees, and a wide range of other topics. There are also notices in each issue of recent inventions and products new to the agricultural market. Of particular interest are the twelve engraved plates illustrating a variety of contemporary machines and farming implements, such as "Flagg's Patent Revolving Brick Press," "Lane's Corn Sheller," and a "Cider Mill and Press," with the final two plates featuring different breeds of sheep. The first ten plates were lithographed by Pendleton Litho, while the sheep plates were executed by Senefelder Press in Boston. A table of contents at the beginning helps locate relevant articles in each volume.The New-England Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal was edited by Ezekiel Holmes, M.D., a professor of chemistry, natural history, and agriculture at the Gardiner Lyceum in Maine. This copy carries a near-contemporary ownership inscription in pencil on the titlepage, reading, "J.S. Swift Farmington Maine 1840." Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. About fifteen copies in OCLC, most of them single issues or incomplete runs. An exceedingly rar

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