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1880s The Housekeeper's Companion, antique book of receipt (recipes) & doctoring
The Housekeepers Companion - Practical Receipt Book and Household Physician - The Whole Forming a Complete Hand-Book of Referenc...
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lot of beautiful old books w/ colored cloth bindings, collection of vintage novels
Collection of nineteen hardcover books early and mid-century vintage, all cloth bound covers, an instant library to rea...
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1950s vintage Guernsey sire pedigree catalogs, early AI breeding bulls, ABS
Lot of early 50s vintage American Breeders Association catalogs, all Guernsey sires, with pedigrees and photos. These came out of an esta...
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1950s vintage Holstein sire pedigree catalogs, early AI breeding bulls, ABS
Lot of early 50s vintage American Breeders Association catalogs, all Holstein sires, with pedigrees and photos. These came out of an esta...
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lot WWII vintage flying magazines, Popular Aviation, Skyways, Flying Aces flyer pilots
Lot of about 30 assorted issues of flying magazines, most WWII vintage. I believe most of these are complete and they seem to...
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antique architectural textbook w/art binding and engravings/illustrations
Old antique 1874 edition of -Architecture for General Students- by Caroline Horton with descriptive illustrations. This has 287 pages and...
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1930s vintage business books library in red faux leather, for altered art?
1930s vintage business books with fancy red leatherette covers. There's a volume missing from this set (no volume five) but they're lovel...
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1930s San Antonio Texas booklet, vintage municipal promotional info & photos
Pictureque San Antonio booklet published by the Municipal Information Bureau of San Antonio. It's not clearly dated, but probably 1938, w...
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vintage Christmas books with red & green cloth bindings for holiday display
Two vintage cloth bound hardcover books for the Christmas season, nice and clean, pretty for display as much as reading. The t...
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WWII vintage camping, hunting and fishing books, Horace Kephart etc.
Pair of 1940s, WWII vintage books on camping and woodcraft and hunting and fishing, There is a 1941 edition of Camping and Woodcraft by H...
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ABS American Breeder's Service sign w/ bull, for show cow stall
Heavy card stock poster sign (21" x 14") from American Breeder's Service, to advertise a daughter out of one of the ABS stud bull sires....
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Antique vintage book Satan, his Origin, Work & Destiny w/illustrations
Old, (dated 1920) religious book, -Satan, his Origin, Work and Destiny-. This has 128 pages with many black and white and tonal color ill...
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antique 1865 The Freedmen's Book Civil War vintage abolitionist/slavery
Rare antique 1865, Civil War era, copy of The Freedman's Book by abolitionist L. Maria Child and published by Ticknor and Fields - Boston...
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1940s vintage agriculture text book, types of livestock farm handbook
Vintage ag college study book dated 1941, Types and Market Classes of Livestock. This is 607 pages with black and white photos...
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antique machinist books, old technical & drafting handbooks w/illustrations
Lot of three antique, early century technical and drafting books for machinists, engineers and millwrights... Roger's Drawing and Desig...
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tiny Book of Gnomes & lot of gnome Christmas tree ornaments, 70s vintage
Late 70s - early 80s vintage all Gnome for the holidays lot!...
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1870 Life of Empress Josephine, antique Alta edition book w/ old gold
Antique Alta edition of the Life of Empress Josephine, dated 1870. This looks complete, though it has a lot of browning and spotting. The...
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vintage 1912 book Bird Life, antique color plate prints bird illustrations
Bird Life, dated 1912, with 75 listed color plate illustrations (we didn't count them). The plates are lovely, about 7 1/2" x 5" overall....
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William Jennings Bryan - The First Battle, 1896 antique book
William Jennings Bryan - The First Battle, dated 1896. Nice old blue cloth cover, cracked and a little spotted. 629 pages....
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1945 Railroads at the Work trains & train engines booklet, steampunk vintage photos
1940s 68 page book published by the Association of American Railroads - Railroads at Work. This has some lovely old photos!...
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vintage 1940s how-to illustrated book of furniture upholstery
Old 1946 edition of -New Essentials of Upholstery- by by Herbert Bast - Upholstery Instructor, Sheboygan Vocational School, Sheboygan, Wi...
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antique early 1900s book w/ floral cover art, life & teachings of Buddha
Light of Asia (life and teachings of Buddha) by Sir Edwin Arnold, no date, turn of the century or a little later....
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1954 vintage Lionel Trains instruction book, 64 pg illustrated booklet
64 page booklet How to Operate Lionel Trains and Accessories, dated 1954. Very detailed directions and diagrams, clearly written for olde...
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antique 1890s bound magazine issues, Illustrated American current events
Volumes 13 and 15 of Illustrated American magazines covering periods during 1893 and 1894. These seem to be mostly current events, the '...
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antique Jersey Lily flour advertising, vintage red & white cotton potholders
Pair of very old unbleached cotton pot holders from Jersey Lily flour - these don't appear to have been used, though they are very yellow...
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WWII vintage German language magazines die Hausfrau, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Three 1940s issues of The Housewife (die Hausfrau), all in German, published in Milwaukee....
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Seeds, old US Department of Agriculture farm yearbook, vintage 1961
Old USDA agricultural yearbook from 1961 - Seeds. Very interesting for the farmer and grower, seed historian, or seed saver, or anyone f...
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shabby antique books w/ beautiful art bindings for display or altered art
Lot of three lovely but shabby books with early 1900s vintage bindings in a flowery style, all in shades of ivory....
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1917 US Department of Agriculture yearbook, vintage USDA farm year book
Old USDA agricultural yearbook from 1917, with many great photos and articles of interest to the farmer....
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1920 US Department of Agriculture yearbook, vintage USDA farm year book
Old USDA agricultural yearbook from 1920, with many great photos and articles of interest to the farmer....
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1948 USDA Agriculture Yearbook, all about grass
1948 US Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, Grass... breeding, diseases, 'modern' haymaking, pastures and lawns, etc. etc. very interesting, l...
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1979 lot of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, from 1979 (missing the February, March, and April issues). These are in good shape....
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1976 full year of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, full year of 1976. These are in good shape....
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1977 lot of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, from 1977 (missing the October, November and December issues). These are in good shape....
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1974 full year of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, full year of 1974. These are in good shape....
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1975 full year of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, full year of 1975. These are in good shape....
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1969 full year of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, full year of 1969. These are in good shape....
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lot of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines, 1963 and 1964
Lot of vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, assorted issues from 1963 and 64. These are in good shape, but smell a little musty from...
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1972 lot of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, from 1972 (missing the January issue). These are in good shape....
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Arabian Horse News magazine back issues full year 1971
Here is a lot of old issues of The Arabian Horse News trade journals - this lot is the full year of 1971....
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1970 full year of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, full year of 1970. These are in good shape....
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1973 full year of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines
Vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, full year of 1973. These are in good shape....
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vintage Wisconsin farm kitchen notebook full of handwritten recipes
Old notebook full of hand written recipes - this came out of the estate of lady who lived on a farm and in a couple of small Wisconsin to...
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Lot of back issues Arabian Horse World magazines, 1965 and 1966
Lot of vintage 'Arabian Horse World' magazines, assorted issues from 1965 and 66. These are in good shape....
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65 Buttercream Flowers, vintage cake decorating book, icing and frosting cakes
Vintage instruction book on cake decoration, 65 Buttercream Flowers. This is full instructions, and lots of b&w photos....
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old 1936 farmer's how-to booklet Rope on the Farm, knots, splices etc.
Old 1930s edition of the farmers handbook "Practical Uses of Rope on the Farm - Knots, Hitches Splices". This booklet is from an old farm...
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1940s vintage Boy Scout's Scoutmaster's material lot, books, papers, forms
Vintage 1940s Boy Scouts Scoutmaster materials, booklets, forms etc.. We see a lot of items from the Scouts, but very seldom find collect...
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dept of agriculture yearbook, 1913
1913 edition of the "Yearbook of Agriculture" from the USDA. It has 541 pages, many charts and photos, and some beautiful colored plates...
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vintage Ernest Ritter Grand Canyon midget horses photo postcards/booklet
Old 1930s or 1940s vintage set of photo post cards and accompanying booklet by artist and explorer Ernest Ritter. The four postcards have...
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lot of old and early century vintage books w/embossed and gilt art bindings
Lot of 6 assorted old and antique books with embossed art bindings. These books have some wear, name, inscriptions etc.. There are: The L...
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Biology of Earthworms, old agricultural textbook for farm library
Old agricultural textbook on the biology of earthworms by C. A. Edwards and J. R. Lofty of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden...
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vintage USDA yearbook LAND, 1958 US Department of Agriculture
Old USDA agricultural yearbook LAND from 1958. This yearbook has photos, charts and more. There is a name on the front end paper....
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old farm kitchen book on preserving food, pickling/canning Depression vintage
Old Great Depression vintage textbook on canning meat and vegetables, making pickles and jelly, drying food and more. Food Preservation -...
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old 1970 agricultural livestock book, raising swine, hogs & pigs, farm library
Old 1970 copy of - Swine Science - Animal Agriculture Series - . It has 881 pages with lots of photos and illustrations....
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early 1900s The Breeder's Gazette magazines, farm livestock photos
Lot of three early, turn-of-the-century vintage, "The Breeder's Gazette" farm magazines from an old farm estate. These are from the years...
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lot old 1930s and 1940s The American magazines vintage advertising and graphics
Lot of five assorted old 1930s and 1940s issues of The American magazine. These have great cover graphics and advertising for products li...
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vintage How to use the Stanley Steel Square, instruction book
Vintage 1967 instructional book... How to Use the Stanley Steel Square. This has 47 pages and was published by Stanley. It is full of tip...
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antique Practical Farming and Gardening, 1902 livestock/fruit trees etc.
Antique farm handbook, Practical Farming and Gardening. This has lots of engraved illustrations of livestock (cows and steers, sheep, hor...
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50s vintage Wisconsin Agriculturist farming magazines, lot of 22 issues
22 vintage 1950s issues of Wisconsin Agriculturist farmers magazine. All of these are worn, none are mint condition collector's copies. B...
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old Rawleigh's advertising catalogs, 1910, 20s & 30s, patent medicine books
Three old booklets from Rawleigh's (grocery products, medicines and health products for farm and home), of Freeport Illinois. One is date...
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1940s illustrated technical books machinists tool design & making
Pair of World War Two vintage technical books on industrial tool and fixture design and manufacturing. These books are heavily illustrate...
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vintage agricultural book livestock & poultry production, farm library
Old 1975 copy of - Livestock and Poultry Production, 4th edition - . It has 630 pages with lots of photos and illustrations and covers th...
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huge lot of books on breeding & raising exotic tropical aquarium fish
Huge lot of more then 40 assorted books on raising and breeding exotic and tropical aquarium fish. There are some great vintage books wit...
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1930s vintage Arts & Decoration magazines lot, art deco modern & antiques
Arts and Decoration magazines, 1930s vintage back issues - four issues in this lot, December 1937, March 1939, June 1939, October 1939. T...
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antique 1912 farm book, raising cows, horses, sheep & pigs w/livestock illustrations
Antique vintage copy of "Beginnings in Animal Husbandry" by C.S. Plumb "Professor of Animal Husbandry in the College of Agriculture of th...
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vintage British Manual of Horsemanship, horse&pony riding, jumping&tack
Vintage copy of -The Manual of Horsemanship of The British Horse Society and Pony Club. The first edition of this handbook was published...
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antique The Farmstead small scale farming book, county homesteading
Old 1900 book -The Farmstead - The making of the rural home and the lay-out of the farm- by Isaac Phillips Roberts. This book is part of...
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antique guidebook Danish royal castle Rosenborg Denmark art binding
Antique illustrated guidebook to the Danish royal castle of Rosenborg at Copenhagen, Denmark. It has an embossed gilt art binding and is...
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40s vintage Stencil Fun book, large and small stencils farm animals and pets
1945 book of Stencil Fun, 12" x 12" spiral bound, with paper stencils of farm animals and pets. Dogs, duck, goose, cow, pig, rooster, hor...
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Norman Rockwell 332 magazine covers, vintage frameable art prints
1994 Artabras 2nd edition book of Norman Rockwell magazine cover art, 10 1/2" x 13". The pages are clean and good for framing, though the...
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1940 vintage Girl Scout Handbook, 1946 edition scouting guide book
1946 edition of the 1940 copyright Girl Scout hand book, in very good shape. It does have an inscription and former owners name marked in...
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1940s USDA agriculture and farming yearbook, climate change, weather and man
Old Dust Bowl vintage,1941 Dept of Ag yearbook, "Climate and Man", from an old farm estate. This yearbook has 1247 pages with tons of map...
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McHenry County Illinois antique vintage plat map book, no date
Old plat book for McHenry Co. Illinois... no date on this anywhere that we could find, on the book or on the maps. Most of the businesses...
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vintage 50s 4th edition American Red Cross First Aid book, illustrated
Vintage American Red Cross First Aid book. This is the fourth edition (copyright 1957) and 27th printing (1967). It has about 269 illustr...
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lot of antique 1926 Poultry Keeper chicken magazines farm advertising
Lot of three old farmer's magazines Poultry Keeper from 1926. These have lots of great old farm and garden advertising and graphics. We s...
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vintage Dept of Ag farmer's bulletin how-to booklet, making vinegar
Old Farmer's Bulletin instructional booklet published by the USDA, #1424 Making Vinegar in the Home and on the Farm, this edition is from...
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WWII vintage American Red Cross First Aid books atomic bomb effects
Lot of two old World War Two vintage First Aid and Civil Defense books from the American Red Cross. There is:...
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1933 yearbook of agriculture, usda farm reports
1933 US Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, with lots of statistics for nearly everything connected with farming, and a section on the past ye...
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antique 1902 farmers handbook, grain weights and prices, farm hand wages etc
Old antique 1902 edition of "Atwater's American Farmer's Figurer - revised and improved edition - 1902" by Joshua Atwater - Atwater Publi...
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Knots and Splices vintage illustrated book on tying ropes
1965 illustrated book on tying knots and splicing ropes. It has 79 pages including a section on fancy rope work such as tying a man rope...
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1943 WWII vintage GM booklet using hand tools Armed Forces training
World War II booklet on the correct use of hand tools. It was produced and published by General Motors for issuing to members of the Unit...
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old early 1888 Dept. Agriculture report/yearbook w/engravings and color litho plates
Early old 1888 "Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture" from an old farm estate. This year book was printed by the Government Printing...
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1976 US Army engineer field manual/handbook FM5-34 bridges/bunkers+
1976 updated edition of the US Department of the Army's 1969 Field Manual 5-34 - Engineer Field Data. This has 435 pages and is bound fli...
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old Rodale Organic Gardening and Farming garden encyclopedia, 1959
Vintage copy of "Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening" published by J. I. Rodale's "Organic Gardening and Farming" magazine. It is copyright...
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vintage Gardener's Handbook garden guide w/ line drawings, dated 1930
1930 edition of a 1928 Garden Guide - The Amateur Gardener's Handbook. This has some beautiful line drawings of garden structures etc., a...
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antique 1907 T.E. Roe businessman's handbook 'Safe Methods or How to do Business'
Antique old 1907 edition of "Safe Methods or How to Do Business - Business Law Facts and Forms Penmanship and Correspondence - Tables, Sh...
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Flower and Garden mod vintage gardening magazines back issues lot 1960s
Lot of vintage back issues of Flower and Garden magazine - ten issues altogether. June 1968 - August 1968 - March 1969 - April 1969 - May...
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Jersey's Best Oysters, big old oyster tin can, vintage advertising
Old steel can, gallon size (about 7 1/2" tall) from Jersey's Best Oysters. We couldn't find a date on this, but it seems to be pre zip co...
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1934 yearbook us dept. of agriculture
1934 US Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook, with lots of statistics for nearly everything connected with farming, and a section on what's new...
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30's potash deficiency text German/French/English
1937 chemistry textbook on potash deficiency in German, French, and English... 235 pages, many photos (some tinted) of plants subjected t...
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1896 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1896 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 686 pages, lots of nice old line dra...
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1917 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1917 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 853 pages with tons of illustrations...
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1924 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1924 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 1252 pages with tons of illustration...
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1939 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1939 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 52 issues in all (the full year).These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we...
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1941 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1941 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 53 issues in all (the full year).These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we...
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1942 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1942 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 36 issues in all.These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we have mostly Jers...
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1943 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1943 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 23 issues in all.These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we have mostly Jers...
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1944 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1944 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 24 issues in all (the full year). These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we...
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1945 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1945 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 23 issues in all.These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we have mostly Jers...
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1946 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 1946 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 24 issues in all (the full year). These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we...
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1969 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1969 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 360 pages....
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1970 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1970 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 366 pages....
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1974 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1974 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 358 pages....
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1939 jersey bulletins, dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of vintage 193 The Jersey Bulletin magazines, 37 issues in all. These are a great resource for the old pedigrees, we have mostly Jers...
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1975 vintage Dept. of Agriculture USDA farming yearbook
1975 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has 362 pages....
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vintage wi jersey booster dairy cattle cows pedigrees, ads
Lot of assorted vintage 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's Wisconsin Jersey Booster magazines, 52 issues in all. These are a great resource for...
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vintage Dept of Ag farmer's bulletins how-to booklets, fabric care
Two old Farmer's Bulletins, instructional booklets published by the USDA, 1940s vintage and earlier....
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vintage Dept of Ag farmer's bulletins how-to booklets, growing sweet potatoes, peanuts
Two old Farmer's Bulletins, instructional booklets published by the USDA, 1940s vintage and earlier....
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