The Culture of the Peach and Nectarine.
London: Groombridge, 1859. Octavo, v, 52, [2] pages. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Advertisement. FIRST EDITION. Fine in original blind and gilt-stamped green cloth.
Farm & Garden
The Pea.
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.....
ECHO Mushroom Plant. Troy, N.Y.
[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1985]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....
On Planting and Rural Ornament. A Practical Treatise.
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.....
The Gardeners Kalendar Directing What Works are Necessary to be Performed Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, As also in the Conservatory and Nursery. Shewing I. The particular Seasons for the Propagation of all Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Times with the time when each Sort is proper for the Table. II. The proper Seasons for Transplanting all Sorts of Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, with the Time of their Flowering. By Philip Miller, F. R. S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea With a List of the Medicinal Plants, which may be gathered for Use each Month.
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.
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Heart's Delight Farm [title from cover].
[Chicago, Il. The Lammers Schilling Company, 1915]. Folio (32.5 x 27 cm.), 114 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs and drawings in sepia-tone and duo-tone of the exterior and interior of buildings, landscapes, machinery, and livestock of the historic Heart's Delight Farm. One mounted plate of a reproduction of a color painting in rear. Printed throughout on heavy card stock. Title from cover; publication information from interior of rear wrapper.....
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Rural Studies, with Hints for Country Places. From the author of "My Farm at Edgewood."
New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1867. Octavo (19.4 x 13 cm.), x, 295, [1], 3 pages. Illustrations in the text. Publisher's advertisements at end. Author from spine. Title, early leaves, and advertising printed in black and red. FIRST EDITION, first state with the page number "iv" on the last page of the preface. A book on country architecture and landscape gardening by Mitchell, better known by his pseudonym "Ik.....
Honey Bee Pests, Predators and Diseases.
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, 1978. Octavo, 430 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of essays on the enemies of honey bees, from the leading scholars in the field. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with only a touch of edgewear. Inscribed by the author, "To Herman Sanders, with very best wishes - Roger A. Morse". Dr. Herman Sanders was the first American doctor to be tried for euthanasia, in.....
Garden Spice and Wild Pot-Herbs. With illustrations cut on wood by Elfriede Abbe.
Ithaca, NY: Printed by Elfiede Abbe, 1954. Large quarto (30 x 22 cm.), 211 pages. FIRST EDITION, deluxe issue, limited to ninety hand-numbered copies printed on hand-made Japanese Kochi paper. This is copy number fifty-five. Illustrated with original woodblock prints and two prints made from zinc plates. One folding plate. Includes a list of Synonyms, a Glossary and an Index. A late American herbal of both garden and wild plants.....
Circular Advice, In regard to Preparing, Packing and Shipping Articles of Produce for the New York Market.
New York: New York Market, circa 1890s. Small octavo, 32 pages. A practical handbook for the proper shipment of goods including produce, meats, and poultry for sale at the New York Market. Advice includes regulations regarding marking and shipping of packages; shipping in ice; methods of killing poultry; selection of spring lambs; customary care for hops and honey; and uniform selection of apples and pears, among other items and rules.....
Green Grows the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 275 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, issued the same year as the London edition but lacking the subtitle, "The Story of a London Garden". Another in the long list of charming gardening books by Beverley Nichols. The entire book is given to the landscaping project Nichols undertook after buying a new house in.....
The Farmer's Assistant. The subjects on which this work treats, are numerous, embracing every article relating to agriculture, arranged in alphabetical order.
Albany: Printed by H.C. Southwick, No. 94, State-Street, 1814. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.) [vii], 327, [1] pages Errata on final page; Subscriber list. FIRST EDITION. The following year, a second printing was issued with the descriptive subtitle, "a complete treatise on agriculture in general: also, upon the various subjects of gardening, fruit-trees, farriery, and the dairy, arranged in alphabetical order to which is added a copious index". John Nicholson.....
The Handy Housekeeper: Containing many of the good things that have appeared in the "Farm Journal" for the past eight years, with other new and original hints and helps for busy rural housewives. Edited by Our Country Cousin.
Philadelphia and Chicago: Farm Journal; copyright 1885 by Wilmer Atkinson; Electroplated, printed, and bound by J.F. Dickson & Co., 1886. Duodecimo (13 x 8.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. Table of contents is really a short index. Second printing. The 1885 original issue appears to have been 96 pages long, and larger in dimensions (18 cm. tall). A home economics manual for the rural housewife, drawn from the pages of Farm.....
Countryman's Year. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
New York: Whittelsey House, 1949. Large octavo ( x cm.), 193 pages. Photographically illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A charming portrait of a year in the country and of activities in field and town, with sections on digging potatoes, hammocks, katydids, sweet cider and the birch swinging (think climbing young birch trees and swaying back and forth). Pearson was the Verlyn Klinkenborg of his generation, contributing the country-life sketches to the.....
[Collection of Plat Maps and Planting Patterns for Georgia Pecan Plantation].
Georgia: [1935-1939]. One original planting pattern map and three photostat copies of boundary maps, varying sizes. Collection includes Plat of property owned by Mrs. J.T. Logue (53.5 x 85.5 cm), a hand drawn property map with planting map for pecan trees, that features a color coded key indicating four varietals of pecans planted: Schley, Mahan, Stuart, and Moneymaker. Includes pencil and ink annotations to plat and verso. The three photostat.....
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[Photographic talley of placement of 7-UP advertising].
[Iowa: 1952-1958]. Collection of sixty two vintage black and white or color gelatin silver photographs (individually approx. 9 x 12.5 cm.), most mounted on eight loose photo pages with handwritten dates to rectos and some with captions on the versos. Age-toning to the color photographs with a few items with corner chips from mounts. Several loose photos, and several spaces on the pages where photos appear to have been removed.....
Jewell House of Art and Nature: containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. The third edition, corrected.
London: Printed by Bernard Alsop, and are to be sold at his house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), [2], 251, [8] pages. Table of contents at rear. Printer’s name from Wing. Stated Third Edition corrected, first published in 1669. A classic of seventeenth-century English food writing from the English courtier, diplomat, respected natural philosopher, and founding member of the Royal Society. He was.....
Advertising booklet.
New London, CT: Quinnipiac Fertilizer Co., 1884. Duodecimo, 40 pages. Advertising booklet for Quinnipiac Fish and Phosphate fertilizer, containing predominantly testimonials from growers about the value of using this product. Also contains a seven page list of farmers, organized by town, with the recommendation that you ask them yourself. With a tiny chip to the fore edge of the rust colored wrappers, and a tiny damp stain to the foot.....
Coffee Cultural Practices in the Kona District of Haiwaii.
Honolulu: The University of Hawaii, 1935. Stapled booklet, 64 pages. Illustrated with charts and photographs. First edition. Detailed description of the cultivation of coffee plants in an area famous for its quality coffee beans. Includes planting, soil, bringing back neglected plants etc. Small crease to wrappers, a bit of age-toning, otherwise near fine in printed gray wrappers.
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The Pennsylvania Farmer; Being a Selection from the Most Approved Treatises on Husbandry, Interspersed with Observations and Experiments.
Philadelphia: Published and sold by Jacob Johnson & Co., Sold also by C. Pierce, and W. & D. Treadwell, Portsmouth; W.P. & L. Blake, Boston; Beers & How, New-Haven; Whiting, Backus & Whiting, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany; O. Penniman & Co., Troy; Thomas & Whipple, Newbury-port; George Hill and Warner & Hanna, Baltimore ; R. & J. Grey, Alexandria; and S. Pleasants, and W. Prichard, Richmond; A. Bartram.....
How to Cultivate and Preserve Celery.
Albany: Theophilus Roessle, 1860. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [6], xxvi, [27]-100 pages. Illustrated with color lithograph frontispiece and three plates, two of which are also in color. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely produced treatise devoted entirely to celery, the only title published under the series "Roessle's Gardener's Hand-Books". The author, the son of a market gardener, emigrated to the United States from Stuttgardt in 1825 at the age of 14.....
Farm Products in Industry.
New York: Rae D. Henkle, 1929. Octavo, 318 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, second printing. The "first practical utilization of cornstalks for the manufacture of paper stock." (from the colophon). The antique finished text paper was made by the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, and the coated paper for photographic illustrations by the Michigan Paper Company. A survey of traditional farm products and byproducts and their potential uses in industry. Previous owner's.....
L'Agriculture: Poëme. Seconde édition.
[Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1774. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 259, pages. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes. Stated “Seconde edition”. Not to be confused with the publication of the same year, also styled “Seconde edition”, but issued in an entirely different setting by l’Imprimerie Royale, with different pagination and with eight plates of engravings. This current edition has no identified place of publication or publisher. While both.....
An Essay on Calcareous Manures. Second Edition.
Shellbanks, VA: Published at the Office of the Farmers’ Register; Robert Ricketts, Printer, 1835. Octavo, lacking original wrappers (24.5 x 16 cm.), viii, [9]-116 pages. Printed in double columns (after the Preface); errata notice at foot of final page. ~ Stated “second edition”, following the first edition of 1832, published in Petersburg, VA; this edition also appeared in some bound copies of the Farmers’ Register, Volume 2, of which the.....
Domestic Poultry: Being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc.; derived from the author's experience and observation.
New York: Orange Judd and Co., 245 Broadway, 1874. Small octavo sewn, in wrappers (18.5 x 13 cm.), 120 pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece. Stated "New & Enlarged Edition"; originally published 1866. A book of general instructions for raising poultry, with descriptions of numerous breeds. Includes "Mr. Geyellin's Visit to the Poultry Yards of France". Edges chipped, some light soiling to a few leaves. Wrapper soiled; rear wrapper panel lacking (pagination is.....