Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture.

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Title Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture.
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Volumes 6
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Date of Publication 1808
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Date of First Publication 1808
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Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Notes AAS Notes: Containing communications on various subjects in husbandry & rural affairs.
Vol. 1, 1808, printed by Jane Aitken; v.2, 1811, published by Johnson & Warner, printed by Jane Aitken; v.3, 1814 published by Johnson & Warner, printed by Lydia R. Bailey; v.4, 1818, published by Benjamin Warner; v.5, 1826, published by Robert H. Small.
Some of the earlier volumes passed through two editions. Cf. Pref., v.5, p. li.
In 1935 occurred the 150th anniversary of the Society, for which a historical sketch was prepared by Rodney H. True under title: Sketch of the history of the Philadelphia society for promoting agriculture. A reprint of this sketch and of other pamphlets prepared for the anniversary, together with items taken from the society's printed and manuscript collections, form the material of v.6 of the Memoirs, published in 1939 (v.6 is without series t.p., the title appearing only in publisher's lettering; title-page reads: Sketch of the history, etc.). Other unpublished material in the possession of the society may be published later; cf. v.6, Foreword and Preface.
List of members, 1785-April 12, 1939, in v. 6, p. 198-228.
To which is added: v. 1, A statistical account of the Schuylkill permanent bridge, communicated to the Philadelphia society of agriculture, 1801. [By R. Peters] Philadelphia, 1807;v. 2, Agricultural inquiries on plaister of Paris. By R. Peters. Philadelphia, 1810.
Suspended 1827-1938.
American Antiquarian Society copy v. 1-5 shelved in Dated Books; v. 6 shelved in LPL Phil Phil M939.
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Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, Benjamin Warner [Market Street], Robert H. Small [Chestnut Street], 1808.

(1808). Memoirs of the philadelphia society for promoting agriculture. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner. Benjamin Warner [Market Street] Robert H. Small [Chestnut Street]

Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, Benjamin Warner [Market Street], Robert H. Small [Chestnut Street], 1808. 

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