Kingsbury, J. M.MareMagnum
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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 128 pages. Full black cloth boards with white plant illustration. Discolored marks on yellow endpapers. Tears on worn dust jacket. Black and white drawings. "Deadly Harvest gives a clear and detailed explanation of where poisons are found, and lists the varieties of garden plants, hedge plants, and wild plants which are potential dangers to us all. The book's practical and valuable advice covers both the problems of antidotes and the eradication of the plants themselves. There is also a fascinating history of man's encounter with plant dangers, including several medieval methods of deliberate poisoning, as well as many illustrative cases of accidental poisoning." Hard-to-find book.
2004réf. __0851996140C A B Intl 2004. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 600 pages. 10.50x6.50x1.50 inches. C A B Intl hardcover
16 pages. Features: Wonderful full-age photo-illustrated ad for Interlaken Summer Camp for Boys, La Porte County, Indiana, inside front cover; The Vilest Crime of the Ages - The movement to discredit the Germans at home as well as the German element in this country; An Obsolete Jeffersonian Doctrine - the right to traffic in munitions of war with belligerent nations; Did the Lusitania carry cargo like this? - The Cleveland Automatic Company's high explsive shells break into smaller pieces which are poisonous and will painfully kill victims in four hours without immediate treatment - an ad for these shells from the 'American Machinist' is reproduced here; The German Army as a National Backbone, by Frank Koester; $16,000,000 "Neutrality"; Let Sir Richard Crawford Pack his Trunks; Some "English Outrages"; The New York Herald Admits the Truth; Italy's Entry into the War; American Neutrality a Myth; English Poisonous Gases; British Cabinet Breaking; Gas Bombs used by the English and French; News from Germany; Kaffee Hag ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Three-inch opening to bottom of coverfold, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
1794réf. 57547Prague: Schönfeld 1794. Second Edition. Engraved title vignette 12 engraved plates with contemporary hand coloring. Pp. 4 35. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Disbound. Title leaf closely trimmed at foot with loss of bottom of date. Private library stamp of Hans Ernst von Stockhausen Wuelmersen. Plates interleaved and tipped to later blank leaves at gutter. First gathering loosened a few leaves creased. Very good. Second Edition. Engraved title vignette 12 engraved plates with contemporary hand coloring. Pp. 4 35. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Illustrated handbook of poisonous plants including henbane thorn apple datura water hemlock ergot deadly amanitas false chanterelle etc. With brief account of various incidents of poisoning in Bohemia. The appendix treats subjects such as arsenic rabies suffocation and the purification of long sealed wells upon reopening. The full page handcolored plates give the German and Czech names for the plants and mushrooms. Rare and interesting. Not in the relevant bibliographies. Not in OCLC 3 locations only for first ed. Schönfeld unknown books
1794réf. 57547Prague: Schönfeld 1794. Second Edition. Engraved title vignette 12 engraved plates with contemporary hand coloring. Pp. 4 35. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Disbound. Title leaf closely trimmed at foot with loss of bottom of date. Private library stamp of Hans Ernst von Stockhausen Wuelmersen. Plates interleaved and tipped to later blank leaves at gutter. First gathering loosened a few leaves creased. Very good. Second Edition. Engraved title vignette 12 engraved plates with contemporary hand coloring. Pp. 4 35. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Illustrated handbook of poisonous plants including henbane thorn apple datura water hemlock ergot deadly amanitas false chanterelle etc. With brief account of various incidents of poisoning in Bohemia. The appendix treats subjects such as arsenic rabies suffocation and the purification of long sealed wells upon reopening. The full page handcolored plates give the German and Czech names for the plants and mushrooms. Rare and interesting. Not in the relevant bibliographies. Not in OCLC 3 locations only for first ed. Schönfeld unknown
