Squashes: How to Grow Them: a practical treatise on squash culture, giving full details on every point, including keeping and marketing the crop.
New-York: Orange Judd & Company, No. 41 Park Row, 1867.
Small octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 69, [3] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text. Publisher's advertisements at end. FIRST EDITION. A complete guide to growing squash, apparently encouraged by an expansion of available varieties, including some from Asia, like the Yokohama. Original printed wrappers sewn on cord; panels separated; closed tear to front wrapper panel; large corner of final text leaf and rear panel lacking. Internally shaken but complete. Good. [OCLC locates seventeen copies].
Price: $120.00
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