A MEMOIR ON THE ORIGIN, CULTIVATION AND USES OF COTTON, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SEA-ISLAND COTTON PLANT, INCLUDING THE IMPROVEMENTS IN ITS CULTIVATION, AND THE PREPARATION OF THE WOOL, &C. IN GEORGIA AND SOUTH-CAROLINA; READ BEFORE THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ST. JOHN'S COLLETON, NOVEMBER 13TH, 1843, AND THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, DECEMBER 6TH, 1843, AND BY BOTH SOCIETIES ORDERED TO BE PUBLISHED.
Charleston: Miller & Browne, 1844. [4], 62, [1 errata], [1 blank] pp. Stitched into original printed yellow wrappers and bound into later cloth with gilt-lettered spine title [front board detached but present]. Some foxing, Good+. Seabrook, President of the South Carolina Agricultural Society, explains that he wrote this "Historical Essay....... More