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8vo. 9 x 11.75 in. 43, [5] pp. With over 100 photo and text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers, front cover art of Case tractor plowing (minor dustsoiling, small tear to spine, minor creasing, very minor bumping), still VG- copy. First edition of this rare catalogue for the Case Threshing Machine Company, issued featuring all the parts and supplies to maintain their traction engines, portable engines, gas & oil tractors, threshing machines, and road building equipment. Jerome Increase Case (1819- 1891) began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine, WI, and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One. Subsequently, Case began producing a whole line of self-propelled traction engines, portable engines, twine binder machines, separators, stackers, and more. Their road building machinery line-up included not only Case steamrollers, but also rock crushers, elevators, screens and bins. No copies in Worldcat; See: Case Construction Equipment History (2013); Leffingwell, Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor, Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel, Wessels Living History Farm, York, Nebraska (2014).…