Washington, D.C. G.P.O., 1906. Bulletin: Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station; no. 12. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23 x 14.5 cm.), 32 pages; ten pages of plates. Illustrated with black & white photographs. FIRST EDITION. A thorough examination of the state of the mango farming industry in Hawaii at the time, with attention paid to different varieties, etc. Some wear to wrappers at the spine. Near very good. With the ownership stamp.....
[East Hartford, Conn. The Grange], 1946. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 78 pages. Advertisements. Place of publication determined from external evidence. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A straightforward community cookbook with one hundred thirty recipes, the majority of them attributed, issued at a time when two of the original twenty-four charter members were still serving as officers. Cakes and confections in abundance, among them Honey Brownies, Hickory Nut Cake, Orange and.....
Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1779, 1780. Two [of five] volumes. Quartos, xvi, 264 & iv, 240. Each 'Tome' with an engraved vignette title and ninety-five engraved illustrations. Christian Hirschfeld (1742 - 1792), Enlightenment scholar and rationalist, is perhaps best known for this five volume work on gardens. Published in German as the 'Theorie der Gartenkunst' at the same time as this French edition, Hirschfeld attempted to delineate the garden with the.....
Boston: William D. Ticknor; Marden & Kimball, Printers, 1837. Octavo, sewn on cords (23.5 x 14.5 cm.), vii, [2 leaves], 210, 16 pages. Illustrated with several diagrams in the text. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; originally published London 1835. "Vines were cultivated in England at the time of this publication only against walls, upon roofs of buildings and under glass. Hoare's treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine in this manner.....
New York: W.S. Gottsberger, 1883. Small octavo (16.5 x 12 cm.), 326, [12] pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Stated “Seventh Edition”, but also the FIRST U.S. EDITION. The book was originally issued in London and Edinburgh in 1869, and went through many editions. Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819 - 1904) was Dean of Rochester Cathedral and an imminent Victorian Rosarian. He was an avid sportsman, spending much of his college.....
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.....
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 C.J.G. & F. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1830. Booklet, sewn on cords (22 x 14 cm.), 23 pages. FIRST EDITION. An additional issue was published the same year by Hinde of Lichfield. The author suggests that allotments be supplied to the poor so they might labor at growing some of their own food. He predicts a number of results of the allotments: that the.....
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 to the 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. Two 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.....