Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 447

Unsold
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
American Cultivator's Almanac . . . 1848. 16 leaves. 8vo, stitched self-wrappers; foxing, last leaf torn with small area of loss. Rochester: Miller & Crosman for I. A. Hopkins of Milwaukee W. T., [1847]

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Extremely unusual almanac published in Rochester but intended for a Milwaukee audience, with a Milwaukee bookseller's imprint below the Rochester imprint on the title, and several ads for businesses in Wisconsin Territory. Likely produced by Rochester seed companies to promote emigration and farming in the region. Variant of Drake 8517, 8518 and 8519.