Author: Society for Encouragement of Arts

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780365876793

Excerpt from The American Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce In the English Colonies the Society has been instrumental in establishing Botanic Gardens, thereby aiding the importation and production of 'the Spices, fruits, and gums of Foreign Countries, and their more general introduction into Commerce. It has also been the means of introducing many new substances, such as gutta-percha, cocoa-nut oil, etc., thereby creating new sources of trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.