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No Place of Publication: No Place: No Publisher, NO DATE 1980 or so, 1st Edition thus, First Printing (reprints in Facsimile Cat. / 69 from About 1920 / 1921, for the Port Huron Engine and Threshing Company ), 1980. ------------( 1st printing of the First facsimile Edition ) softcover, a Very Good+ example of this facsimile, small crinkle on rear cover, 40 pages, b&w illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good+ ( see Description ). Illus. by Uncredited Cover Art. 7.75w x 10.75h Inches.
Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Co. [catalogue]. by [MACHINERY -- CATALOGUE] - 1894].
by [MACHINERY -- CATALOGUE]
Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Co. [catalogue].
by [MACHINERY -- CATALOGUE]
- Used
- Paperback
- first
Hoosick Falls, NY & NY: Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Co., Inc.; [Printed by J. Ottmann Lithographing Co., 1894]. 4to. 36 pp., printed in red & black, numerous text illustrations, woodcut-engraved illustrations & diagrams. Colour chromolithograph softcovers, pastoral cover art featuring sheaves of wheat, and Wood horse-drawn harvester operating on back cover (slight shelfwear, very light rubbing), still NF copy, w/ Wood Harvesting Machine dealer stamp of Enoch Bridges, Wilton, ME in lower fore-edge back corner. First edition of this nicely printed, and scarce farm machinery catalogue issued by the storied Hoosick Falls, NY manufacturer. This work details the award-winning tubular steel mowers, gear mowers, single apron binding harvesters, bundle carriers, transport trucks, binder twines, hay rakes, and more. Wood (1815-1892) founded the company in 1853, and often entered his machines in competitions regularly winning gold medals and prizes for the excellence of his equipment. Jacob Ottmann (d. 1890) was originally a partner in the Mayer, Merkel & Ottman which was one of the largest American lithographic firms, specializing in advertising posters, pamphlets, and reproductions of oil and watercolour paintings. No copies located in Worldcat.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Co., Inc.; [Printed by J. Ottmann Lithographing Co.,
- Place of Publication Hoosick Falls, NY & NY:
- Date Published 1894].
- Keywords Machinery, farm Equipment, Mowers, Reapers, Harvesters, 19th-century Imprints, Chromolithography, Chromolithograph Printing, Colour Printing, Trade Catalogue, Catalogues, Catalogs, Catalog, Hoosick Falls, New York, Agriculture, Wheat, Technology