New York; London and Aylesbury: Frederick A. Stokes Company; [printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., 1902]. Small octavo (16 x 12 cm.), x, 221 pages. With sixty-one illustrations, thirty-six of which are in colors by the author and twenty-five from photographs. Index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, following the London issue by Hutchinson the same year. The original was part of the series, the Worburn Library of Natural History, edited by.....
New York: Orange Judd Publishing Co., Inc., 1928. Duodecimo (19 x 13 cm.), viii, 262 pages. Engraved illustrations in the stereotyped text. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Later edition, based on the Revised Edition of 1896. About sixty pages of this edition are devoted to the California wine industry, following the author's relocation from Missouri to the Napa Valley. Original black cloth, bordered and titled in orange. Fine, in a near.....
Rome: International Institute of Agriculture, 1915. Octavo, 24 pages. First edition. United States.; 63d Cong., 3d sess., 1914-1915. Some light edgewear to printed wrappers, otherwise very good.
Paris: Editions Ophrys - Jean Louis Gap, 1947. Two volumes. Thick octavos, 273 + 542 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Published as the author's doctoral thesis for the CNRS, this work remains the most detailed study of viticulture in Algeria - a full exploration of the geography and history of winemaking in a nation that provided something of a haven during the phylloxera blight. Pages brittle throughout, with some edge chipping.....
London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, at the sign of the Printing Press, in the piazza of the Royal Exchange, over against Popes-Head-Alley, in Cornhill, 1675. Two volumes bound as one; octavo (17 x 12 cm.), [8], 159, 158-246; 136, [16] pages; with errors in pagination as issued. Two engraved, illustrated additional titles. Publisher's advertisement on verso of the terminal leaf. Indexes. Second part has separate title page: New additions to.....
Salem, Mass.; Boston: Published by W. & S.B. Ives; W.J. Reynolds & Co. B.B. Mussey & Co. and for sale at most of the agricultural and seed stores in the United States, 1847. Octavo (16.5 x 10.5 cm.), [viii], 144 pages. Hand-colored frontispiece and engraved title page. Illustrated with wood engravings of fruit. Index of varietals at rear. Third edition, revised and enlarged.. A brief but broad survey of the.....
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1883. Octavo, 375, [9] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. A popular 19th century textbook of soil science and agricultural chemistry. Some age toning to pages, otherwise internally very good or better, in publisher's burgundy cloth, which is soiled and worn. Good only.
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1893. Octavo, 394, [2] pages. Illustrated. Later printing, of the revised and enlarged edition. One of the most popular 19th century textbooks of agricultural chemistry. A fine copy, in publisher's gilt-stamped brick red cloth.
New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1868. Octavo, 394, [2] pages. Illustrated. First edition. One of the most popular 19th century textbooks of agricultural chemistry. Contemporary owner's ink signature to front fly, otherwise a fine copy, in publisher's gilt-stamped, pebbled brown cloth.
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., 121 Washington Street; [D.H. Ela, printer, no. 19 Washington Street], 1839. Octavo (18 x 11.5 cm.), viii, 167, [1] pages. Bibliographical references and publisher's advertisement at rear. Second edition, enlarged and improved; following the first of 1835. This second edition contains a lengthy new preface by the author, outlining the author's observations about improvements in the American silk industry since the book was first made.....
New York: Orange Judd Comapny, 1903. Thick octavo, 506, [6] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. A survey of all aspects of tobacco, from history and trade through various varieties of leaf and their uses. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in handsome, bright and clean publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth.
Baltimore, MD: Printed by McCoull & Slater, N.W. corner of Baltimore and Charles Streets, 1857. Duodecimo (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), 226, [4], iii pages. Includes separate indexes for each of three sections. Small woodcut illustrations. FIRST EDITION. A farrier’s manual, really a holistic veterinary manual which includes, formulae, receipts, and prescriptions. The text includes a list of domestic medicines and receipts, for example, Lunar Caustic, "very useful in curing bites.....
Bruxelles: Chez Jean Leonard, Libraire-Imprimeur; rue de la Cour, 1733. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), [2], 502, [21] pages. Table des Chapitres. Frontispiece illustration engraved by Harrewijn, Jacobus (1662-1732?). Four parts in one volume: Le Menage Universel de la Ville et des Champs; [with] Traité des Abeilles ou l'on Voit, both by de la Ferriere; [with] Nouveau Traité des Chevaux, la Maniere se la Nourir, et de les Elever... [and.....
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates in Fleet Street, 1717. Two works bound as one. Octavo, 84 & [19], 115, [1] pages. Fifth and Second editions, respectively. The "first original eighteenth century English treatise on gardening" [Henrey, p. 415], together with its companion, The Gentleman's Recreation. In 1718, following the printing of this volume, a third work was added, The Fruit-garden Kalendar... in order to make his.....
Boston / New York: Joseph Breck and Co. / G.C. Thorburn, 1837. Duodecimo, xii, 278 pages. Illustrated. Index. Second American, from the sixth London edition. Pages show evidence of having been dog-eared, age-toned throughout, in original green ribbon-cloth binding. Binding soiled, and morocco spine label chipped. Good.
Boston: Lee and Shepard; stereotyped at the Boston Sterotype Foundry, 1867. Octavo, iv, [4], 316 pages. Advertisements in the front matter for the author's mill, and for Leavitt's Peat Journal, his periodical dedicated tot he subject. Engraved frontispiece illustrating Leavitt's Peat Condensing and Mouding Mill. ~ Third edition, revised and enlarged; nearly three times the size of the original 1865 issue, and twice that of the 1866. Peat bogs and.....
Paris: Chez Durand, Neveu, Libraire, rue Galande, Hotel Lesseville, a la Sagesse, 1775. 2 volumes, quartos, 916 pages. Frontispiece to volume one, illustrations, 2 folded plates (other illustrations). Stated tenth edition, revised and augmented. A great work of French rural economy, based largely on an earlier work by Charles Estienne. Le Nouvelle Maison Rustique remained in print throughout the eighteenth century. It includes advice on all aspects of managing a......
Rouen: Chez la veuve de Pierre Dumesnil, 1787. Duodecimo, xij, 419, [1] pages. With fourteen folding leaves of plates, and additional illustrations and ornaments in the text. A later printing of the very popular work of agriculturalist Louis Liger, on flowers and gardening. In a modern binding in imitation of eighteenth century style, in full brown morocco, with compartmented, and gilt-decorated spine. All edges gilt. Fine. With the bookplate of.....
Paris: Michel David, 1711. Octavo, [6], 536, [8] pages. Frontispiece, five leaves of folding plates. Second printing of the first edition. Michel David issued the title originally in 1710. A compilation of two seventeenth century works by Nicolas de Bonnefons, here issued under a royal privilege granted to Louis Liger, sieur d'Auxerre (1658-1717). The work is divided into four books, the first three concerning cooking, the fourth dealing with gardening.....
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm.), 123 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Facing English and French texts. Third edition, an early facsimile of the original G.&C. Carwill edition of 1827. In 1829, Cargill issued a slightly expanded edition with some changes in the translation. Loubat was among the first to recognize the potential of American soil for quality wine grapes. He claims to.....
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm.), 123 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Facing English and French texts. Third edition, an early facsimile of the original G.&C. Carwill edition of 1827. In 1829, Cargill issued a slightly expanded edition with some changes to the translation. Loubat was among the first to recognize the potential of American soil for quality wine grapes. He claims to.....
London: Groombridge, 1859. Octavo, v, 52, [2] pages. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Advertisement. FIRST EDITION. Fine in original blind and gilt-stamped green cloth.
New Delhi: Published for the United States Dept. of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by Amerind Pub. Co.;Oxonian Press, 1983. Large octavo (24 x 16 cm.), [7], 267 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. First English language edition; originally published in Russian as Gorokh (Leningrad: Kolos, 1973).A detailed description of the pea plant, its morphology, biological and genetic data together with practical information on grain, vegetable and fodder varieties, and.....
London: Printed for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1803. Two volumes. Octavos, xxii+408+7 pages index & xx.+ 454 +4 pages index. Third edition. The first volume contains information on woodlands, hedgerows, forestry, the history of planting, and the use of place. The second volume contains a thorough dictionary of trees. Marshall was one of the first professional landscape improvers to write a manual. Internally near fine, pages generally fresh.....
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, H. Woodfall, etc. 1769. Thick octavo, lxvi, [ii], 382, [22] pages. Engraved frontispiece and five folding plates. Fifteenth Edition. Occasional light browning. Very good in recent full calf.