This is a work that should be in the library of every family, having been written by one of the most talented authors in the English language.
"Goldsmith can never be made obsolete while delicate genius, exquisite feeling, fine invention, the most harmonious metre, and the happiest diction, are at all valued."
BIGLAND"S NATURAL HISTORY
Of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects. Ill.u.s.trated with numerous and beautiful Engravings. By JOHN BIGLAND, author of a "View of the World."
"Letters on Universal History," &c. Complete in 1 vol., 12 mo.
THE POWER AND PROGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE UNITED STATES; Its Power and Progress.
BY GUILLAUME TELL POUSSIN,
LATE MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TO THE UNITED STATES.
FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD PARIS EDITION.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY EDMOND L. DU BARRY, M.D.,
SURGEON U.S. NAVY.
In one large octavo volume.
SCHOOLCRAFT"S GREAT NATIONAL WORK ON THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES,
WITH BEAUTIFUL AND ACCURATE COLOURED ILl.u.s.tRATIONS.
HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL INFORMATION
RESPECTING THE
HISTORY, CONDITION AND PROSPECTS
OF THE
Indian Tribes of the United States.
COLLECTED AND PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, PER ACT OF MARCH 3, 1847,
BY HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, LL.D.
ILl.u.s.tRATED BY S. EASTMAN, CAPT. U.S.A.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS.
THE AMERICAN GARDENER"S CALENDAR,
ADAPTED TO THE CLIMATE AND SEASONS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Containing a complete account of all the work necessary to be done in the Kitchen Garden, Fruit Garden, Orchard, Vineyard, Nursery, Pleasure-Ground, Flower Garden, Green-house, Hot-house, and Forcing Frames, for every month in the year; with ample Practical Directions for performing the same.
Also, general as well as minute instructions for laying out or erecting each and every of the above departments, according to modern taste and the most approved plans; the Ornamental Planting of Pleasure Grounds, in the ancient and modern style; the cultivation of Thorn Quicks, and other plants suitable for Live Hedges, with the best methods of making them, &c. To which are annexed catalogues of Kitchen Garden Plants and Herbs; Aromatic, Pot, and Sweet Herbs; Medicinal Plants, and the most important Grapes, &c., used in rural economy; with the soil best adapted to their cultivation.
Together with a copious Index to the body of the work.
BY BERNARD M"MAHON.
Tenth Edition, greatly improved. In one volume, octavo.
THE USEFUL AND THE BEAUTIFUL;
OR, DOMESTIC AND MORAL DUTIES NECESSARY TO SOCIAL HAPPINESS,
BEAUTIFULLY ILl.u.s.tRATED.
16mo. square cloth. Price 50 and 75 cents.
THE FARMER"S AND PLANTER"S ENCYCLOPaeDIA,
The Farmer"s and Planter"s Encyclopaedia of Rural Affairs.
BY CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON.
ADAPTED TO THE UNITED STATES BY GOUVERNEUR EMERSON.
Ill.u.s.trated by seventeen beautiful Engravings of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, the varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Gra.s.ses, the Weeds of Agriculture. &c.; besides numerous Engravings on wood of the most important implements of Agriculture, &c.
This standard work contains the latest and best information upon all subjects connected with farming, and appertaining to the country; treating of the great crops of grain, hay, cotton, hemp, tobacco, rice, sugar, &c.
&c.; of horses and mules; of cattle, with minute particulars relating to cheese and b.u.t.ter-making; of fowls, including a description of capon-making, with drawings of the instruments employed; of bees, and the Russian and other systems of managing bees and constructing hives. Long articles on the uses and preparation of bones, lime, guano, and all sorts of animal, mineral, and vegetable substances employed as manures.
Descriptions of the most approved ploughs, harrows, threshers, and every other agricultural machine and implement; of fruit and shade trees, forest trees, and shrubs; of weeds, and all kinds of flies, and destructive worms and insects, and the best means of getting rid of them; together with a thousand other matters relating to rural life, about which information is so constantly desired by all residents of the country.
IN ONE LARGE OCTAVO VOLUME.
MASON"S FARRIER--FARMERS" EDITION.