REFERENCE / Handbooks & Manuals from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Baltimore, Providence: George M'Dowell & Son / Hutchens & Shepard, 1832. First edition. 8vo. Good. 2 hand-colored folding maps. 8vo, 471 pages, full contemporary calf, rebacked with new leather but the original leather spine label, water stain in gutter and at fore-edge, foxing, inscriptions at the front for the Hollisters, including John Fletcher Hollister, Kendall County, Illinois, 1842:… Read more about this item

Bath, UK: Kingsmead Reprints, 1970. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, 136+ pages, cloth Wherein is Laid Down Plaine and Easie Rules for Ringing All Sorts of Plain Changes, Together with Directions for Pricking and Ringing All Cross Peals; with a Full Discovery of the Mystery and Grounds of Each Peal.

Sunderland: Printed for the Author by Turner and Marwood, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, unpaginated, new cloth but 19th century, top inch of title and following page trimmed away. Ex libris T. M. Cox. THIS IS THE FIRST VOLUME ONLY, OF 3. 32 engraved plates. Containing inquiries into its origin, with… Read more about this item

Chicago: American Short-Horn Breeders' Association, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; [i]-lvi, [1] - 965, half black sheep, edgeworn. Combines both Bulls and Cows. This volume bears a portrait and obituary for Lewis F. Allen, the breeder, and founder of this publication. These entries give the name of the breeder of each calf immediately after… Read more about this item

Buffalo, NY: Courier Company, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; xliv, [ 1529 - 16281 ], embossed cloth, gilt spine These entries give the name of the breeder of each calf immediately after its sire. Lithographed frontispiece portrait of Grand Duchess 17th.

Chicago: American Short-Horn Breeders' Association, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo;lxvi, 1216, half black sheep, corners bumped Combines both Bulls and Cows. These entries give the name of the breeder of each calf immediately after its sire.

Dearborn, MI: Dearborn Publishing Company, 1926. Early printing. Paperback. Fine. 16mo, 169 pages, brown clothbacked printed wrappers Lovett prepared this book for the Fords. The Lovetts posed for the photographs; also includes diagrams and music.