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1869ref. 3545London:: Journal of Horticulture 1869. First printing. Harrison's Annie Elizabeth Apple. A Fine original hand-colored nineteenth century lithograph by botanical artist James Andrews 1801-76. London c. 1869. Archivally matted in Ivory rag mat with gilt French line decoration. Sized to 12 x 15 inches. James Andrews also produced a fine botanical drawing botanical book: Lessons in Flower Painting 1835 and contributed the plates for a popular sentimental flower book of the nineteenth century: Flora's Gems c. 1839. Journal of Horticulture, unknown
ref. 2830Pittsburgh: The Company 1868. . 8vo self-wrappers; has been folded vertically; previous owner's notation on front cover dated 1869 Amerine and Borg list the catalogues for 1868 and 1866 Pittsburgh: The Company, 1868. unknown
ref. 2830Pittsburgh: The Company 1868. . 8vo self-wrappers; has been folded vertically; previous owner's notation on front cover dated 1869 Amerine and Borg list the catalogues for 1868 and 1866 Pittsburgh: The Company, 1868. unknown books
1845ref. 7153Ghent:: Louis Van Houtte 1845-1888. First edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original color lithograph Octavo 6.5 x 9.75 inches matted in Ivory Rag board to 12 x 16 inches and suitable for framing. Rich and luminous this plate is printed from stone in multiple colors and then finished by hand at the printing studios amidst the van Houtte gardens; Horto Van Houtteano. To honor the burgeoning interest in horticulture throughout Europe during the nineteenth century several botanical periodicals were created to document and illustrate the beauty of new botanical discoveries worldwide. Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe Ghent; Louis van Houtte1845-1888 was among the finest horticultural journals produced at the time. As experienced botanical engravers botanists and nurserymen in their own right the editors Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire combined their talents to produce this glorious publication which documented both the newly discovered exotics and the popular plants being cultivated in the Americas Europe Asia and beyond at the time. Charles Lemaire was an engraver for Pierre Joseph Redoute's masterful works Les Liliaces published in Paris; 1802-16 and Les Roses; both Folio and Octavo Editions Paris;1817-24 1835. Louis Van Houtte was proprietor of the most esteemed nursery on the continent during the mid-19th century; Establishment Louis Van Houtte. He commissioned an exclusive team of plant hunters to travel worldwide and gather previously unrecorded orchids and other exotics for cultivation and documentation which became the basis for this landmark series. DeBelder Sitwell Plesch Matted in Rag Board Louis Van Houtte, unknown
ref. 24661PARIS, bureau du journal/TROYES, Imp. G. Arbouin - TETE de COLLECTION - 1 ère Année - 1900 - N° 1au N° 74 - In-4 - Reliure basane frottée- Dos à nerfs - Illustrations Nb en texte - 904 pages, y compris Tables alphabétiques des auteurs & des Matières & Table des figures - Bon exemplairePARIS, bureau du journal/TROYES, Imp. G. Arbouin - 2 ème Année - 1901 - N° 76 au N° 127 du 25/08/1901 - In-4 - Reliure 1/2 basane frottée à coins (manque en tête) Dos à nerfs - Illustrations Nb en texte - 686 pages - Bon exemplaire, très frais intérieurement
PARIS, bureau du journal/TROYES, Imp. G. Arbouin - TETE de COLLECTION - 1 ère Année - 1900 - N° 1au N° 74 - In-4 - Reliure basane frottée- Dos à nerfs - Illustrations Nb en texte - 904 pages, y compris Tables alphabétiques des auteurs & des Matières & Table des figures - Bon exemplaire PARIS, bureau du journal/TROYES, Imp. G. Arbouin - 2 ème Année - 1901 - N° 76 au N° 127 du 25/08/1901 - In-4 - Reliure 1/2 basane frottée à coins (manque en tête) Dos à nerfs - Illustrations Nb en texte - 686 pages - Bon exemplaire, très frais intérieurement
18598vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; viii, 52, [iv, publisher's ads], fine hand colored frontis plate of the Late Admirable Peach by James Andrews, other illustrations. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, lightly rubbed, small endpaper bookplate, minor foxing on title, else clean and near fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The book was published posthumously, and enlarged, by John Cox.
ref. 697Renfermant ce que les meilleurs auteurs et praticiens ont dit de mieux sur les défoncements,la plantation,les formes,la taille et la mise à fruit des arbres fruitiers. 2ème édition,revue,augmentée et ornée de figures par l’auteur.In 12 demi-cuir bleu,dos lisse,titre,roulette dorée.faux-titre,frontispice illustré dépliant,titre,251 pages,lithos Hors-Texte de l’auteur concernant 80 variétés de poiriers admises par le congrés pomiologique avec noms définitifs.Besançon chez Tuberque 1859.rousseurs éparses habituelles
ref. 11607In 8 broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, à rabats. Poème gastronomique suivi de quarante recette Alsaciennes- Vingt encadrements en couleurs de Melle Jeanne RISS. Titre 182 pages avec un filet vert en encadrement. Novembre 1913 Strasbourg- Revue Alsacienne 1914. Quelques rousseurs aux pages de table des matières. Sinon très bon état
197796 pages. Index. "Offers an array of recipes, from the classic to the most inventive and unusual, for three of Canada's finest summer fruits." - from dust jacket. Includes 125 recipes. Above-average wear and soiling. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
1948148 pages. Features: They take care of their own - Mormons supporting each other; Big litters are not accident; Crates will save your pigs; Fresh grass for your winter feed; Double check on the hens; Turkey every day; The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek - Four generations of the Brown family made Orchard Dale Fruit Farm one of New York's finest, near Waterport in Orleans County - article with great color photos (small clipping from one of the photos); Bringing back abandoned land; Better fire protection is up to you; The men behind your market news; Corncobs to to fatten beef; Photo of violin-making farmer Oscar Nash of Minnesota; Photo of Clarence Lustfeld of Buckley, IL and his remote controls for his tractor; and more. Ads: Ipana ad with radio team Tex and Jinx; Texaco ad with photo of Emil Johnson of Longmont, CO; Buick; Studebaker trucks; Arthur Godfrey in Chesterfield cigarette ad; 1949 Kaiser cars (color); Oliver tractors - 66, 77, 88; Dodge; Jergens ad with Mrs. Bertha Robb and her family of Brattleboro, Vermont; Chrysler (nice 2-pages in color); Gibson tractors; Cone denim; Life insurance ad features Vermont apple growers Brower and Helen Hall of Grand Isle; Plumb axes; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1951258 pages. Features: Woodbury Soap photo ad features Joyce Edwards of Stamford CT and Russell Otis Washburn; Town of the Month - Palmer Lake, Colorado; Nice color Tide ad; Color ad for Midnight by Tussy; Color Campbell's Soup ad includes fruit cake recipe; Color Ivory soap ad features beauties; Miss Alma Shon; Kristin Holmberg of Erick, OK resembles the December 1949 cover girl of this magazine; Nice black and white photo in Warner's foundations and bras ad features three ladies; Color photo of Deborah Kerr in Lux ad; Color ad for Baker's chocolate chips; Nice color-photo ad for Jell-O puddings & pie fillings; Is that toy a delight or a danger?; Christmas toys for babies and toddlers; Nice color-photo ad for Heinz pickles; Color ad for Duz laundry saop; Lovely color 1952 Dodge car ad; How to choose a Christmas tree; Nice color-photo Ivory Snow ad; Small World - fiction by Margaret Cousins; The Beautiful Time - story by Ruth Branning Molloy; Madeline's Rescue - wonderfully illustrated story about the famous young girl created by Ludwig Bemelmans; Between Me and Myself - Christmas story by Mary Louise Bryan; Lovely color-photo illustrated article on 'Six Robes for Christmas Eve'; Color-photo article with gift wrapping ideas; Photos of Christmas door design ideas; Lovely vintage color-photo ad for New Prell shampoo; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Francis Irenee du Pont II; Jergens ad features photos of Lizabeth Scott, co-star of movie "Red Mountain"; Toni ad features photos of twins Jany and Joey Pope, plus Pat Barnard and Rita Daigle of New York; Two-color Kleenex ad features Little Lulu; Jergens ad includes photo of Gloria Swanson; 'Cooking with Gas' ad features Mrs. George J. Waddell of Kansas City, MO, and Mrs. Marc Wyse of Cleveland; Photo of Ray Milland in National Silver Co. ad; Photo of Vladimir Horowitz in RCA ad; Great vintage color ad for Cosco kitchen stools and high chairs; Fantastic color Coke ad features Santa with his list of good boys and girls; Fantastic color-photo ad for ITT's "Coolerator" electric range; Color Daystrom furniture ad; Very nice American Airlines ad inside back cover shows ticket agent serving lady holding hat box; Back cover Crisco ad; and much, much more. Somewhat above-average wear with one-inch opening to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
196742 pages. Features: Behind the Scenes of the Royal Tour of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip - article with great colour photos; Ben Hogan Battles His Toughest Foe - article with colour photos; 60's Fashion - Lick-and Stick Tattoos called Put-Ons - colour photos; The Fruits of July - recipes; Wonderful colour photo centerfold shows huge crowd on Parliament Hill with the Queen; "I Had a Legal Abortion" - a Canadian woman discovers how minor a major operation can be in London's Harley St. 'Circus'; A Memory of Darkness (Part 1 of this novel by Margaret Summerton). Average wear. Unmarked. Sunning to lower left corner of front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1935Circa 1930s as horses are photographed pullling farm implements. Dozens of vintage prairie agricultural informational sheets, each with its own topic, stored in an original gilt-lettered black Eaton's two-ring binder. Topics are too many to list but include: Seed Grain Testing; The value of registered seed; Reward Wheat; Fall Rye; Growing Corn on the Prairies; Root crops; Ensilage crops; Sunflowers as Ensilage; Crop Rotations; Summerfallow Substitutes; Sweet Clover; Winter Egg Production; Hogs - Goitre and Iodine; The Farm Garden; Asparagus for Every Garden; Growing Fruit on the Prairies; Weeds and Their Control; Clean up! Paint up! Plant up!; Suggested books for the home library; Swat the Fly; Practical Cookery; The School Lunch; Beekeeping Advice; Fire Prevention on the Farm; and much, much more. Pages yellowed with age. Some pages all or partially free of binding. Some contemporary handwritten notes on blank pages at back of binder. A wonderful Canadian prairie collectible packed with timeless practical advice for how to survive on the land. Book
197164 pages. Features: Gorgeous Revlon lipstick ad; Like Father, Like Daughter - Princess Anne; Could you live in Kitchener-Waterloo? - article with photos; The Girls Who Leave Home; Day of Storm (story); Former nun Leona A. Brady talks about leaving the convent, her marriage and motherhood; Communes - a new 'family' way of life - with photo of Jim and Pat Wilson and their baby in the Yellow Ford Truck on Toronto's Baldwin St.; Late Summer Fruits; Sew 18 Fashions for Half the Ready to Wear Cost. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1922270 pages including index. Frontis is black and white plate of author with Luther Burbank, John Burroughs and Edith Simonds. Unmarked. "There are plenty of garden books giving all the facts - for reference... This book is for consecutive reading. The important facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with wise and witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes and other things that suggest the perfuned atmosphere of the gardedn and appeal to the garden maniac... The world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that its chapters are, in his opinion, "The best that have so far been written on garden subjects. You get the facts in such a pleasing, human way that they are irresistible." - from page xiii. Chapters include: Educated Strawberries and Burbank Plums; Commercial Value of Burbank's Creations; Japanese Burbanks and Morning-Glories; Must We Raise Our Own Fruits Too?; Do Apples Keep the Doctor Away?; Why Not Grow Papaws, America's Most Delicious Fruit?; The Retired Rich Need Not Die; The Joys of Creative Gardening. Above-average wear to exterior with lettering nearly gone from spine. Binding intact. Book
192450 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration of children with wishbone; Color ad for Purina chicken chow inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Victrolas features illustrations of Geraldine Farrar, Gigli and Heifetz; Photo-illustrated article on the John and Prisciilla Alden House at Duxbury, MA, near Plymouth; How the Center-Soll Community has brought its neighborhood together - photo-illustrated article; Amaryllis - a Desirable House Plant; Two subscribers tell how they financed their own homes - article by Rebecca Du Pont and Charles A. Hartley; Good seed potatoes for the home garden; Shrub suggestions for southern gardens - article with photos; Screening the undesireable; "Edgevale" flat-roof house plan; Hot water heaters; Nice 'Say it with Flowers' one-page ad appears to be a predecessor to FTD ads; Books for use and decoration; An Old-Time Thanksgiving Dinner; 2/3-page ad encouraging people to buy land in Canada; How to Buy and Cook Meats; The What and How of Veal; Backyard fruit experiences; A chicken ranch in a loft; Music for every home - Music from the air; Embroideries suitable for gift or bazaar. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers present - almost detached. Openings to page 10. Center page loose but present. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
192354 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1964Features: Charlevoix - Une Grande Paroisse - nice photos; La Pomme - Fruit Defendu, Gaspille; L'Amour... L'amour... Ils ont Peur De L'Amour!; L'amour... "Epouse la Fille du Voisin"; Une Minorite Irreductible - la secte des Fils de la Liberte, en Columbie-Britannique; La Douceur De La Vie En Nouvelle-France. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1949Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
1941Features: Three pages of great photos of the Churchill/FDR meeting at sea aboard the H.M. Battleship "Prince of Wales"; Photos of the life of seamen aboard the latest battleships; Photos of fly-killing and tank repair operations in the African desert; War article by Cyril Falls with photos, including overhead shot of the Cernavoda railway bridge across the Danube, before it was destroyed by the Soviet Air Force; 2-page illustration of a 'cutting-out' excercise by a flotilla of fast motor-boats and amphibian troops in East Anglia; Personalities and Events of the week; Super aerial photo of bombs falling on Knapsack power station August 12th during a daylight raid; Centerfold illustration of the "Bristol" Blenheim Mark IV; Four amazing photos of the immediate aftermath of the attack in the Knapsack power plant; 13 photos of Nazi defeat on the Russian front; Interesting tables and graphics depict petrol rations and oil tankers - an analysis for car owners; Article on the Spider Wort, with photos; Nice half-page ad for Eno's "Fruit Salt". Average wear. Faint ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
1963ref. 004961Paris Galerie Tarica 1963 Agrafé Agrafé Edition originale
1770ref. 11006Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1770 ; in-12 ; cartonnage rigide de papier marbré bleu, étiquette manuscrite au dos, non rogné ; XXII pp. (y compris le titre), (1) f., 384 pp.
ref. 2731910-1935 Alger, Imprimerie Imbert, 1935.Tunis, Imprimerie Centrale Georges Guinle et Cie, 1910.Paris, Bureaux de l’office, 1912.Rome, Provveditorato Generale Dello Stato Libreria, 1928.New-York, American geographical Society, 1926.Alger, Imprimerie Jules Carbonel, 1933.
ref. 14714Quatre volumes in 8 brochés,couvertures illustrées.1)Les fruits:Compositions et caractères principaux,conservation à l'état de frais-conservation par a chaleur-conservation par la dessication(conservation par le froid;Faux-titre,titre, 207 pages,plus table 77 figures dans le texte Chez l'auteur à Paris sans date.Petites rousseurs sur la couverture.2) Fruits divers fruits exotiques faux titre,titre,127 pages, 37 figures dans le texte.Ananas,angélique,amandes,noix, bananes,châtaignes,marron,figues,fruits sauvages,goyave, oranges,citron,raisin,rhubarbe,tomates,chez l'auteur sans date.3)fruits à noyaux abricots,pêches,prunes,poires, coings Faux titre,titre 71 pages,figures dans le texte;rousseurs sur la couverture.4)La pomme faux titre,titre,135 pages;52 figures dans le texte;11 pages de publicités en début de volume.Chez l'auteur 1925 Rare complet.