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réf. 0332972070.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0332879291.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0364769416.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0267970064.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1888réf. 10048Sacramento Cal: State Office: J.D. Young Supt. State Printing 1888. Slim octavo 23 x 15 cm 96 pages. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and wood engravings throughout. Several errata have been overprinted in purple ink rubber stamp. FIRST EDITION. Byron Martin Lelong 1856-1901 was the Secretary of California's State Board of Horticulture and amongst a generation of farmer-scholars working and publishing in California in the 1880s and 90s. Others included Thomas Garey and William Andrew Spaulding and in a different way Santa Rosa's Luther Burbank the great seedsman. Lelong's published work focused on citrus as well as prunes figs and walnuts. This treatise is mostly a technical manual on the best varieties of oranges and other citrus to plant in California as well as a guide for how to care for them. It also includes recipes for lemon pie orange souffle and citron cake. Illustrations show the physical differences in each variety of citrus including one of the cross section of a "Pumpel-mouse". Boards lightly scuffed with soiling to margins and fading to spine. Corners bumped and gently rubbed with boards bowing out at fore-edge. Rippling to endsheets with page margins lightly toned. Title page offset by frontis. Text has overprinted errata in blue to correct spellings to a few pages. In publisher's dark blue pebble-grained cloth lettered in gilt. Overall very good or better. Presentation slip tipped in at first free endsheet presented by Ellwood Cooper the then-president of California's Board of Horticulture. Zamorano Select 65. State Office: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing hardcover
1889réf. 19694Sacramento: State Office 1889. First Edition. Octavo; 252pp: 14 plates illustrating 17 olives varietals plus budding and grafting techniques. Fine copy in publisher's black cloth lettered in gold. State Office unknown
1791réf. 017068St Paul's Churchyard London: J. Johnson 1791. Two volumes bound in one. Volume 1 - Second edition 1791. Volume 2 - Third edition 1791. Blanche Henrey 470 . Illustrated with two engraved allegorical frontispieces 18 engraved plates one of them folding - the Cypripedium plate which is often lacking - and two hand-coloured quarto pp xii 214 126 ii; x 197 both frontispieces and title pages browned and with some offsetting from plate to title the plates of the Portland Vase and the Fertilisation of Egypt similar this last plate by Blake after Fuseli; the remaining botanical plates clean lacking the corner of page 171/2 a relevant pencilled note at the base of one page a few pages with foxing but otherwise very clean and sound internally with the armorial bookplate of the Dowdeswell family Pull Court Worcestershire on the front endpaper together with a shelf label and a small newspaper clipping; the hand-colouring on the two plates is particularly attractive and there is also an extra engraved plate fixed to the verso of the first titlepage - a portrait of Darwin engraved by Haughton after Rawlinson - this has caused a little waving of the paper; contemporary full calf a little rubbed and scuffed rebacked the old spine laid down and with some wrinkling. Still a good sound copy. The first poem The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions such as the history of the cosmos. The more popular Loves of the Plants promotes revises and illustrates Linnaeus's classification scheme for plants. One of the first popular science books the intent of The Botanic Garden is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's sexualized language which anthropomorphizes plants Darwin intended to make botany interesting and relevant to the readers of his time. Darwin emphasizes the connections between humanity and plants arguing that they are all part of the same natural world and that sexual reproduction is at the heart of evolution ideas that his grandson Charles Darwin would later turn into a full-fledged theory of evolution. This evolutionary theme continues in The Economy of Vegetation which contends that scientific progress is part of evolution and urges its readers to celebrate inventors and scientific discoveries in a language usually reserved for heroes or artistic geniuses. Darwin's attempt to popularize science and to convey the wonders of scientific discovery and technological innovation through poetry helped initiate a tradition of popular science writing that continues to the present day. Full Leather. Good. J. Johnson Hardcover
1867réf. 9337New York: William Wood & Co 1867. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo each part separately paginated 152 212 166pp. Indices. Engravings and woodcut vignette illustrations by S. Edwards Todd. Publisher's purple cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards soiled and faded spine dulled. Hinges starting but sound and clean internally. Very good. Nicely illustrated edition in original cloth of this comprehensive American horticultural work from Thomas Bridgeman 1786-1850. Bridgeman was born in England and emigrated to the U.S. in 1824 opening a seed store. He authored several other titles on gardening. Both the first edition of 1866 and this enlarged 1867 edition are surprisingly scarce. William Wood & Co unknown
réf. 1146733755.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1773réf. 015679London: S. Hooper 25 Ludgate-Hill 1773. Second edition greatly improved. Illustrated with one plate foxed octavo pp xxxii 298 2 136 slight age-toning and blemishes heavier spotting and foxing between pages 77 and 98 possibly caused by the different paper of the plate otherwise very sound and tight contemporary half calf and marbled boards rubbed and slightly worn rebacked at some point with the old spine laid down the spine now slightly worn at head and foot. With armorial bookplate of Peter Clutterbuck and a slightly odd offset on the facing blank. RARE. Weston was originally a thread-hosier of Leicester but in some of his anonymous works describes himself as "a country gentleman". In 1773 he was living at Kensington Gore but later was living at Leicester where he was secretary of the local agricultural society. From the number of his published works it is evident he had a very wide knowledge of plants and plant literature. Blanche Henrey 1490 - "Richard Weston 1733-1806 appears to have had an excellent knowledge of nursery gardening and nurserymen's sale catalogues. He was interested in agriculture and all forms of horticulture and he also made a study of horticultural and botanical literature.Weston's first important published work appeared in 1769 anonymously. This was his Tracts on practical agriculture and gardening. At the end of this volume and in subsequent editions of the work is a very useful 'Catalogue of English authors.on husbandry gardening botany and subjects relative thereto''. This catalogue is greatly extended in this rare second edition. Second edition. Half-Leather. Good. S. Hooper, 25 Ludgate-Hill Hardcover
1750réf. 015882Leyden & Amsterdam: Samuel Luchtmans & Meynard Uytwerf 1750. Illustrated with 13 finely engraved plates one with a tear and one with tears along the folds one full page plan within the text small quarto pp xxiv 6 412 32 contents a little age-toned but otherwise remarkably clean pages unpressed lacking the half-title contemporary full calf rather worn particularly at the corners joints cracked lacking the lower panel of the spine and a small piece at the head original marbled endpapers. LACKING one plate. "French edition of the first treatise in Dutch to provide a theoretical basis for garden design. It also addressed various practical issues including the cultivation of plants propagation and stove and hothouse technology the latter presumably embodying the knowledge held within the family - the author's father having grown the first pineapple at Meerburg in 1658" - Patrick Taylor . Full-Leather. Good. Samuel Luchtmans & Meynard Uytwerf Hardcover
1994réf. 0010232Lisle IL: The Morton Arboretum / Indiana Academy of Sciences 1994 . Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo' xiv 921 pages cloth owner's discrete emboss on free endpaper. The standard work for decades. Illustrated with maps. "This fourth edition which is essentially a rewrite due to extensive changes incljudes 266 new taxa bringing the total for the area to an amazing 2530 species. The keys are improved and there are more than 2700 new county records. Illustrations have been added to the glossary . A natural divisions map has been added along with a section on natural plant comminities. There is a new section on nomenclatural authorities and an expanded synopsis of plant families and genera. As before entries are listed alphabetically making it convenient to use. Finally the dust jacket a new feature to this edition showcases a few of the area's indigenous plants." - Introduction. The Morton Arboretum / Indiana Academy of Sciences hardcover
1858réf. 012712Philadelphia 1858. Book. Good. Card and Cloth. 4.75 X 7.75 inches. Worn covers age-toned and foxed. The rear cover has a large lower-corner tear and edge tear that has been tape-repaired. Moisture exposure and some dampstaining in the first few pages of the upper corner. The almanac is now bound in protective cloth and card-a Gaylamount pamphlet binder from Gaylord Bros label inside rear cover. 60 pages. Includes ads for Landreth's Agricultural Ware-Houses and Landreth's Garden Seeds 15-page Descriptive Catalogue of Garden Seeds from Landreth & Son astronomical calculations by Joseph Foulke M.D. and monthly charts that include moon phases sunrises sunsets and planting advice. Hardcover
1851réf. 048979New York: Green & Spencer 1851. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 138 6 iv pages. Bound in original full red leather with ornate cover designs embossed in gilt. The binding shows rubbing bumping and wear but is quite sound. Rebacked in modern red leather with a largely plain spine bearing the title and a gilt roll at the headcap and foot and a small central device in the middle of the spine. Corners rebuilt with leather. All edges gilt. Modern faux marbled paper endpapers. Text is a bit toned and there is foxing on the plates. Most if not all of the plates have their tissue guards. No volume number at the front of the book but the general text ends on page 137 with "End of Vol. I" at the bottom of the page. An attractive sturdy work. Green & Spencer hardcover
1846réf. 33512Cincinnati: L'Hommedieu & Co 1846. 8vo. 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches. 68 4 xix pp. plus three plates. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards spine gilt top edge gilt. Bookplate and bookseller's label on front pastedown. Some toning. The charter and by-laws for the Cincinnati Horticultural Society with reports and transactions from its meeting during the first three years of its existence. "Regional growers sought to share knowledge and capitalize on their collective prestige by organizing the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. Founded in 1843 by local businessmen-growers the society was an active group of urban boosters several of whom were also leading winemakers. Under the society's guidance wine making flourished. A period of major expansion of the Cincinnati wine industry marked the decades after 1842 the year in which Nicholas Longworth stumbled onto his formula for 'sparkling Catawba' a much more palatable and popular beverage than his previous 'Cincinnati hock'" - Hannickel. Erica Hannickel "Empires of the Vine: Wine Culture in America" Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013 p. 103. L'Hommedieu & Co unknown
1892réf. 016586Albany New York: Weed Parsons & Company 1892. Illustrated with a frontispiece an allegorical plate and a facsimile letter from Victor Hugo small octavo pp xii 200 11 rather age-toned but otherwise very clean and tight original maroon pebble cloth slightly worn and rubbed. SCARCE. The title is about as direct as the rest of the book. The ramblings of this "crazy Frenchman at Albany" shed very little light on the actual events of his life but give an incredible sense of the energetic character of Louis Menand. There are exuberant paeans to his wife Adelaide whom he calls "Phanerogyne" meaning "remarkable woman" who died in 1890. There are rambling thoughts on the various revolutions and republics in France a scathing appraisal of his arrival in a free land "where slavery was flourishing as carnations" and tales of intrigues at flower exhibitions all told in the least linear style imaginable. He was the son of a gardener in Burgundy France. As early as he could remember he was fascinated by horticulture. "I was eight or nine years old" he later wrote "when I began to try to grow plants from cuttings. I have always been fond of cutting properly or figuratively speaking except cutting my fingers." Eventually Louis became an estate gardener in Paris and later in the Champagne region. In 1837 he came to New York and went to work at nurseries in Halett's Cove which would later become Astoria. There he met a young piano teacher from Albany named Adelaide Jackson. They fell in love and were married in her family home on Park Place in Albany and soon took up residence in what they called "the haunted house" on the Albany-Troy Road Broadway. Louis began selling plants. After a rough first year "more than modest that is to say meagre I might say miserable!!" things began to pick up. Menand had a fair collection of "hardy perennial plants" which had become pretty popular in the Albany/Troy area. Later he sold Norway spruces balsam firs and other popular trees and shrubs. In 1847 he was able to buy several acres of land on what is now Menand Road where Ganser-Smith Park is now located for his greenhouses and nursery. He cultivated plants that no doubt had never before been seen in this old Dutch town -- camellias palm ferns cacti and orchids among others. He was noted for importing exotic plants from Europe and commanded an impressive price for his best camellias: "a little plant four inches high would sell for $25." Menand won significant awards for his plants through the years and continued to grow. He bought 31 acres near the entrance to Albany Rural Cemetery where he set up his son with a half dozen hot houses devoted to growing cut flowers roses carnations pansies geraniums and "an almost endless variety of other species suitable for cemetery decoration." These included all manner of shrubs which no doubt still influence the scenery in the cemetery. His greenhouses were so popular that the Albany and Northern Railroad added a stop there in 1856 named "Menand's Crossing" which the succeeding Delaware and Hudson Railroad renamed "Menand's Station." . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Weed, Parsons & Company Hardcover
1767réf. 016073London Norwich Chelmsford & York: W. Griffin; W. Chase; T. Toft & E. Etherington 1767. FIRST EDITION BUT LACKING ONE PAGE. Small octavo pp 422 one page bookseller's catalogue. The title page is mounted lacking a few small pieces around the margins; the preface page is a bit worn with a torn corner; otherwise contents generally a little used and dog-eared some staining and marking of which the worst is pages 190/191 see illustration; LACKING page 1/2 otherwise complete tight and sound; bound in a fairly recent half calf and marbled boards raised bands and title label. Blanche Henrey 1052. The true rare first edition. There were two printings in 1767 with differences in pagination - this is the first . First Edition. Half Leather. Good. W. Griffin; W. Chase; T. Toft & E. Etherington Hardcover
1728réf. 015566The Cross-Keys between temple Gates Fleet Street: Bernard Lintot 1728. Third edition. An engraved portrait frontispiece four engraved allegorical plates one folding engraved garden plan small octavo pp liii i 200 8 a two-page publisher's list the frontispiece is a little marked in the inner margin possibly from sellotape residue and both this and the title page are a bit age-toned the verso of the frontispiece has some late Victorian inscriptions otherwise the contents are quite clean bound in fairly recent boards with a paper spine label the upper boards a little marked. Blanche Henrey 1255 devoting a page of text and three illustrations to it - "long remained popular and quotations from it are to be found in many 17th and 18th century books on English gardening". This third English editiuon is the only one to include the extra plate. It was originally published in France in 1665. The translator was Subdean of Lincoln Cathedral and Switzer describes him as "a great lover of gardening". Boards. Good. Bernard Lintot Hardcover
1668réf. 015654London: George Sawbridge 1668. 1668. Illustrated with six plates plus woodcut illustrations within the text small octavo pp ii 102 some browning and thumbing throughout with general signs of use the occasional very early small manuscript note the last two pages with slight wear to the margins and minor neat paper repairs early manuscript figures and small scribbles on the blank surface of the final page. Lacking a large corner of pages 65/66 and replaced with a paper repair; the text has been copied in manuscript and the missing portion of the maze parterre has been very carefully copied and is barely noticeable apart from the different paper colour see images. Neatly bound in a fairly modern full calf small raised bands and red morocco label. When first published in 1617/1618 this was the first gardening book intended for the conditions of the North of England and the Country Housewife's Garden the first English gardening book for women. Full-Leather. Good. George Sawbridge Hardcover
1928réf. 015040Private printing 1928. First edition not dated but 1928. Slim quarto pp 58 printed on grey paper with deckle edges errata slipe tipped-in at title page illustrated with 7 tipped-in colour plates from watercolours by Miss L.M. Hamilton many other illustrations from photographs and plans all tipped-in original cloth-backed boards with raised lettering and inlaid drawing rather browned and age-toned lower corners bumped the upper spine and rear cover bumped and bruised endpapers age-toned but otherwise very clean internally. The first edition is much scarcer than the second. The garden is located at Ashford Ireland and is spread over twenty acres of land along River Vartry having more than 5000 plant species. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Private printing Hardcover
1822réf. 015170Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd 1822. Fourth edition. Octavo pp xx 646 faintly marbled edges rather strong age-toning on many pages some foxing but otherwise very tight and sound internally marbled endpapers contemporary half calf and marbled board srubbed and slightly worn spine with raised bands upper joint beginning to wear. With the bookbinder's ticket of John Cain the outspoken Manx preacher on the front endpaper. Not in Blanche Henrey though the first three editions are; it would appear to be unchanged from the third edition of 1814. Half-Leather. Good. Archibald Constable & Co Ltd Hardcover
réf. 0548379777.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1922réf. 012406Houston Texas 1922. Letter. Very Good. No Binding. Three-page typed letter dated 2/8/22 on association letterhead signed by T.J. McCabe of the Houston Co-operative Dairy Association Ltd to a stockholder Mr. Sam E. Sorelle. 8.5 X 11 inches folded twice. Mild wear. Cover included creased and worn. Letter content includes the "depressing conditions" in the preceding year 1921 association business intent to incorporate issues of additional stock to current stockholders to raise money food products and an attached financial statement. The association was only three years old and had survived the economic woes of the previous year while older stronger companies had collapsed. That coupled with optimism for their Mayflower trade-name products-"the best grade of butter made or sold in the Houston market" and "the best ice cream in Houston"-presented in their view a positive outlook for future profitability. The company's plant was located at 1120 North Main St. in Houston Texas. Their office location indicated on the letterhead was at 806 Main Street at Rusk in the Carter Building Samuel Fain Carter. An interesting piece of dairy agribusiness and food manufacturing history in Houston in the early post-World War I years. Three pages typed and signed by T.J. McCabe and fastened with a small pin or nail in the upper-left corner. unknown
1994réf. 08004Mexico: Secretaria De Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos Direccion General Juridica 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Brown leatherette with gilt lettering. Light soil to top edge of page block otherwise fine. The dust jacket has a couple of edge tears and a small amount of rubbing and soil to the rear panel. Protected in a clear Mylar cover. One of only a thousand copies printed. A beautifully produced book with special attention to paper graphic design and typography. A large heavy book 12 pounds which will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. 922 pages with Index. The page preceding the title page is a full-page color portrait of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari who wrote the Preface. His Preface starts: El campo es para los mexicanos un hilo conductor de su historia y es raiz y razon de los mas arraigados anhelos de campesinos The field is for the Mexicans a thread of its history and is the root and reason of the deepest yearnings of peasants. This book published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources General Legal Directorate reports the legislation created in President Salinas' time in office 1988-1994 pertaining to agricultural and water resource issues. Text in Spanish. Secretaria De Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos Direccion General Juridica Hardcover
réf. 03973College Station Texas: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Collection of 18 bulletins from May 1924 to April 1936 from Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Texas A&M University--Divisions of Entomology Agronomy Agricultural Engineering Farm and Ranch Economics Plant Pathology and Physiology. Bound together in stiff cardboard covers. Withdrawn from a public library; stamping to spine and first bulletin in the collection. Also has the card pocket in the rear. 0. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Paperback