American Practical Farmer Text Book of Practical and Scientific Agriculture 1854

Fox, Charles. The American Text Book of Practical and Scientific Agriculture, intended for the use of Colleges, Schools, and Private Students; as well as for The Practical Farmer; Including Analysis by the most Eminent Chemists. Detroit: Elwood and Company, 1854. First Edition. [10765] Publisher's black cloth, decorated in blind, gilt to spine, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, tight. 1865 owner's signature on ffep, signed also on the title page. x, 353, [1] pages, foxing throughout. Tidemark (dampstain) along the edges of the leaves, darkest at the first and final leaves, but present in all. Fair. Hardcover. Detroit: E. A. Wales, Printer, Advertiser Steam Press. Binding quite good, text stained. A text-book written by Fox intended for use in his instructing students in agriculture at the University of Michigan. Rev. Charles Fox (1815-1854), born in England. He emigrated to the United States in 1836, was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, bought a farm on Grosse Ile near Jackson, Michigan (1