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The Cultivator, A Monthly Publication, Designed to Improve the Soil and the Mind. Published by the New-York Agricultural Society, and Conducted by J. Buel, J.P. Beekman and J.D. Wasson. Volume I. Second Edition, 1837, March 1834 - February 1835, 160 pp. Volume II Illustrated with Seventy Cuts & Conducted only by J. Buel, 1836, March 1835 - February 1836, 192 pp. Volume III. March 1836 - February 1837, 200 pp. Volume IV. March 1837 - February 1838, 204 pp. Albany: Printed on the Steam Presses of Packard & Van Benthuysen, 10.5 x 8.25", 4to. *Four Volumes bound in Two Editions - Leather Bound. In fair condition. Possible fire damage exhibited on Edition I: front board's fore-edge, causing soiling front end-page, fly-leaf, & Vol. I's title page. Leather boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spines rubbed. Hinges worn. Gilt lettering on spines dulled, but still legible. Previous ownership bookplate found on front paste-downs: William Tarun Fehsenfeld, Baltimore, MD. Toning throughout text-blocks, with instances of foxing and age-staining. Rear fly-leaf and end-page exhibit dog-eared bottom corners of Edition I. Bindings are intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Jesse Buel (1778-1839) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and agricultural reformer. Echoing Thomas Jefferson, Buel believed, "Agriculture is truly our nursing mother, which gives food, and growth, and wealth, and moral health and character to our country. it may be considered the great wheel which moves all the machinery of society." He bought an 85-acre property west of Albany, NY, to establish his own farm where he could put his reform principles into practice. Buel saw close links among social, moral, and economic improvement, and translated theses into farming through an emphasis on good stewardship of farmland through maintaining its fertility rather than exploiting it in search of faster profits. Buel also campaigned for the establishment of a state agricultural school and helped to found the New York State Agricultural Society in 1832 and served several times as its president. In 1834, he launched The Cultivator, one of the most popular of the many agricultural journals being published for American farmers during this period. William Tarun Fehsenfeld (1925-1995), provenance, was the founder and proprietor of The London Shop in Baltimore, MD since 1959, in which he was a successful fine arts and antiquities appraiser. He was a member of the John Hopkins Club, the Farmington Country Club of Charlottesville, VA and a member of Historic Annapolis. Forty-Eight monthly editions (spanning four full years between 1834-1838) of The Cultivator. Editions are complete. Reading copies. N° de ref. del artículo RAREA1837BMOX
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