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(TRADE CATALOGUE). GIRTY & ELLIOTT. Descriptive Catalogue of Agricultural and Horticultural Implements and Machinery, Field, Graden and Flower Seeds, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Vines and Plants, with Brief Directions and Descriptions Relative to Plowing, Planting, Sowing, and Cultivating Varieties oof Seeds, Fruits, Trees &c., and Rules for the Application of Bone Dust, Guano, Poudrette, and Other Manures. Cleveland, [Ohio]: 1851. 8vo. 132 pp. Extensively illustrated with dozens of woodcuts, especially intensive in the are. Sewn, as issued, with a printed slip pasted to the title. indicating a change in management, to F.R. Elliott only. Some folding of leaves & slight soiling, but a near fine copy. $500.00
Not in Romaine who shows only a few single-implement brochures before the late 1840s; the few general catalogues of that period are very brief. This is a superb catalogue, most comprehensive, and with about 100 excellent cuts of agricultural implements. Girty & Elliott (now Elliott) were manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers at the "Forest City Agricultural Warehouse," in Cleveland.