Item #196 SORGHO AND IMPHEE, THE CHINESE AND AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. A TREATISE ON THEIR ORIGIN, VARIETIES AND CULTURE; THEIR VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP; AND THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR, SYRUP, ALCOHOL, WINES, BEER, CIDER, VINEGAR, STARCH AND DYE-STUFFS; WITH A PAPER BY LEONARD WRAY ESQ., OF CAFFRARIA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PATENTED PROCESS FOR CRYSTALLIZING THE JUICE OF THE IMPHEE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, COPIOUS TRANSLATIONS OF VALUABLE FRENCH PAMPHLETS*. Henry S. Olcott.
SORGHO AND IMPHEE, THE CHINESE AND AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. A TREATISE ON THEIR ORIGIN, VARIETIES AND CULTURE; THEIR VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP; AND THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR, SYRUP, ALCOHOL, WINES, BEER, CIDER, VINEGAR, STARCH AND DYE-STUFFS; WITH A PAPER BY LEONARD WRAY ESQ., OF CAFFRARIA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PATENTED PROCESS FOR CRYSTALLIZING THE JUICE OF THE IMPHEE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, COPIOUS TRANSLATIONS OF VALUABLE FRENCH PAMPHLETS*.
SORGHO AND IMPHEE, THE CHINESE AND AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. A TREATISE ON THEIR ORIGIN, VARIETIES AND CULTURE; THEIR VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP; AND THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR, SYRUP, ALCOHOL, WINES, BEER, CIDER, VINEGAR, STARCH AND DYE-STUFFS; WITH A PAPER BY LEONARD WRAY ESQ., OF CAFFRARIA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PATENTED PROCESS FOR CRYSTALLIZING THE JUICE OF THE IMPHEE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, COPIOUS TRANSLATIONS OF VALUABLE FRENCH PAMPHLETS*.
SORGHO AND IMPHEE, THE CHINESE AND AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. A TREATISE ON THEIR ORIGIN, VARIETIES AND CULTURE; THEIR VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP; AND THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR, SYRUP, ALCOHOL, WINES, BEER, CIDER, VINEGAR, STARCH AND DYE-STUFFS; WITH A PAPER BY LEONARD WRAY ESQ., OF CAFFRARIA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PATENTED PROCESS FOR CRYSTALLIZING THE JUICE OF THE IMPHEE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, COPIOUS TRANSLATIONS OF VALUABLE FRENCH PAMPHLETS*.

SORGHO AND IMPHEE, THE CHINESE AND AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. A TREATISE ON THEIR ORIGIN, VARIETIES AND CULTURE; THEIR VALUE AS A FORAGE CROP; AND THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR, SYRUP, ALCOHOL, WINES, BEER, CIDER, VINEGAR, STARCH AND DYE-STUFFS; WITH A PAPER BY LEONARD WRAY ESQ., OF CAFFRARIA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PATENTED PROCESS FOR CRYSTALLIZING THE JUICE OF THE IMPHEE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, COPIOUS TRANSLATIONS OF VALUABLE FRENCH PAMPHLETS*.

New York: A. O. Moore, Agricultural Book Publisher, 1857. 1st Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good. Item #196

1st edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 350, (1), 12 pp., the last 12 pages being ads for A O Moore books. Illustrated throughout with b&w drawings, etchings and plates. Bound in brown stamped cloth, with title and decorative botanical design in gilt on spine. Nineteenth century bookseller's blind stamp to front end paper. Some browning to end papers with occasional light foxing. A very good copy. ***Tipped into the text block, before the ads, is a Notice, reading in part: "Mr. H. S. Olcott, is now engaged in visiting the extensive plantations of Governor Hammond of South Carolina, and Richard Peters, Esq., of Georgia, and finds there the highest satisfaction with the appearance of the crop, which is nearly ready for the mill, and the greatest enthusiasm every where prevails as to the value of these new Sugar Canes. As soon as the results of the experiments for the present year are satisfactorily known, a full account will be published in circular form, and transmitted, post-paid, to all purchasers of the book, who will send us their names and post office address". ***.

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