[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1856 report of the California Agricultural Fair

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CALIFORNIA) California State Agricultural Society. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S THIRD ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL FAIR, Cattle Show and Industrial Exhibition, Annual Meeting &c. Held at San Jose, October 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th, 1856. (San Francisco): The California Farmer Office. (1856). 8vo. 80,(2)pp. Double column text. Large wood engraving of a pear (p. 68) and the White Oak tree (recto of final leaf). Ads on the verso of final leaf. 20th century red cloth, title gilt on spine. This copy with a contemporary inscription from A. S. Taylor (1817-1876) California author and agriculturalist.    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
See Greenwood CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS #662 with the note "Report for previous years not located." Pages 41 and 53 include discussion of "our native wine."

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