Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 311 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, brown cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color maps. This book is an innovative, accessible, and authoritative history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts, and challenges the long-standing notion that colonial husbandry degraded the land. Clean copy. Record # 34291
Hardcover. Norwood MA, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages, hardcover. Exterior and interior in remarkably good condition, though there is some fading on page edges. Small B&W illustrations throughout. Culturally important reference work serving as a record of an ordinary man's experience and success in his efforts to make a home for himself in the country. Clean copy. Record # 33609
Hardcover. NY, The Langland Press, Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages, hardcover. Red cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a collection of six lectures that explore the ideas and theories of the French economists, known as the Physiocrats, who were prominent in the 18th century. The Physiocrats believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth, and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade. Clean copy. Record # 34104
Softcover. Claremont, NH, The Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, plus 44 pages of vintage advertisements. Covers and interior pages have light foxing and some open tears. Binding is delicate but pages still turn well. Small-form book. Includes fold out map of New Hampshire and Vermont from 1877, which is missing the top piece. Also includes an extensive business directory. This almanac is an annual publication listing a set of events forthcoming in the next year, such as moon phases and eclipses. Almanacs are among the oldest periodicals continuously published in the United States. Own a piece of Vermont history. Memoranda section has extensive writings in pencil by previous owner. Record # 33862
 "The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord by: Donahue, Brian")
 "The Making of a Country Home by: Mowbray, J.P.")
 "The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Economistes of the 18th Century by: Higgs, Henry")
 "Walton's Vermont Register, Farmers' Almanac, and Business Directory for 1877 by: Walton")
