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0260611557.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0265899265.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
036487404X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
A9781345070385Hardback. New. hardcover
0266909930.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1956021655University of California 1956. Thick octavo not illustrated pp 663 very clean internally quarter leather and cloth the original paper covers bound in. A duplicate from East Malling Research Station with minimal markings - a shelf number on the spine and a number and stamp on the front endpaper and on the original cover. VERY SCARCE. First Edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. University of California Hardcover
1396681914.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0260949302.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1926NF2348A COLLECTION OF 7 INDIVIDUAL ISSUES OF AMERICAN FRUIT GROWER MAGAZINE Magazines inc. 1926 thru 1929 first edition all issues very good with some light wear and staining to the covers all of which are in full color. A nice grouping. Illustrated. Magazines inc. 1926 thru 1929 unknown
0366770314.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1831018181London: Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green 1831. Octavo pp xxxii 601i the endpapers half-title title page and index pages are foxed occasional light foxing throughout a stain from an insertion on the rear endpaper a mark on the rear blank a newspaper inserion on the front blank otherwise just generally slightly worn internally half calf and marbled boards but fairly recently rebacked with a new cloth spine the corners strengthened. With the signature of Dr Charles Knight - almost certainly the public servant and botanist who emigrated to New Zealand - and with his neat pencilled notes on the pages devoted to melons. First Edition. Quarter cloth. Good. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green Hardcover
020022THOMAS BARNES. A New Method of Propagating Fruit-trees and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased which will not take root from cuttings or layers confirmed by repeated and successful expeience. First edition 1759. With two engraved folding plates a bit foxed and slightly worn octavo pp 42 scattered foxing.Blanche Henrey 434. It seems little known; the system must have been well received as John Rutter mentions it in Modern Eden 1767 - "a very singular method of propagating fruit trees.lately revived by the very excellent gardener Mr Barnes of Elsham". bound with A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. A New System of Agriculture; or A Plain and Easy and Demonstrative Method of Speedily Growing Rich: Proving by undeniable Arguments that Every Land-Owner in England may advance his Estate to a Double Value in the Space of One Year's Time together with several very curious instructions how to feed oxen cows and sheep to much greater profit than has ever yet been known in England. First edition 1755. pp 182 lacking a small corner from the last page without loss of text. Fussell does not identify the 'Country Gentleman' and is slightly credulous of the claim made on the title page. He notes that there was then no copy in the British Museum. bound with BENJAMIN STILLINGFLEET. Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History Husbandry and Physick translated from the Latin with notes. First edition 1759. pp xxx 230. Contains Linnaeus Oration concerning travelling in one's own country; Biberg's Oeconomy of Nature; Barck On the foliation of trees; Gedner Of the use of Curiosity; Beyerstein's Obstacles to the improvement of physic; Haffelgren's The Swedish Pan and the author's own Observations on Grasses which Fussell praises as an important paper. bound with FRANCIS HOME The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. Second edition 1759. pp viii 207 the last few pages foxed. Fussell observes that Home made a very real contribution to agricultural sciences; and Sir John Russell comments -"The book is a great advance on anything that had gone before it not only because it recognizes that plant nutrition depends on several factors but because it indicates so clearly the two methods to be followed in studying the problem - pot cultures and plant analysis". Generally quite clean and firm internally though with slight age-toning. Bound in a simple cheap full leather green and red labels on the spine rather rubbed but sound the rear hinge cracking but firm. . Full Leather. Good. Hardcover
0366842617.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
188120560Sacramento: State Office 1881. 72 pp illustrated with small wood engravings in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California's apple crop was devastated by Codlin moths. He began studying entomology to find defense against the moths and ensure the security of his business and quickly became an expert on a range of pests affecting California's fruit crops. He was appointed Chief Executive Horticultural Officer of California in 1881. This report prepared at the request of the State Board of Horticultural Commissioners describes the life cycles of the major insects damaging fruit crops moths scale insects mites caterpillars borers aphids etc. and recommends remedies for dealing with each. It also includes the text of new legislation intended to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State of California. State Office unknown
1768015805Pall-Mall York Street Strand and Fenchurch Stree: J. Dodsley; S. Baker G.Leigh et al 1768. Small octavo pp 2 123 a little age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and sound internally bound in a recent qurter calf and marbled boards with red leather lettering piece on the spine. Armorial bookplate of The Earl of Harrowby. The upper board is a little bowed but this detracts only a little from a very bright copy indeed. RARE. Blanche Henrey 1437. De Combles wrote the original anonymously in 1745 when it was the first work on the subject in France. The English edition is also anonymous and Henrey speculates that of the various booksellers mentioned on the title page "J. Gordon seedsman Fenchurch Street" may well have suggested publication if indeed he wasn't the translator. First English edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good. J. Dodsley; S. Baker, G.Leigh et al Hardcover
1795017372The Strand London & Edinburgh: T. Cadell & W. Davies; Bell & Bradfute 1795. Second edition. Illustrated with a folding plan of a cucmber bed a little foxed and browned slightly frayed at the fore-edge octavo pp xvi 312 fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed a little foxed and age-toned throughout a neat early signature on the title page bound by Spink & Thackray of Leeds in a brown half buckram and boards slightly worn and with an armorial crest at the base of the spine. Blanche Henrey 1000. RARE - a good wide-margined copy. Second edition of the work which brought MacPhail's forcing frame and controversial method of cultivation to the public view. McPhail was gardener to Lord Hawkesbury at Addiscombe Place in Surrey. The brick frame was of his own design and a notable feature of this book is the detailed weather observations covering a complete year together with the precise treatment given to the plants on each day. The frame proved immensely popular and within 40 years Rogers 1839 was to state " an excellent invention that has certainly rendered the forcing of this vegetable more simple.there are few gentleman's gardens and few principal market gardens without them". . Second edition. Half cloth and boards. Very Good. T. Cadell & W. Davies; Bell & Bradfute Hardcover
1796017737Picadilly Fleet Street & Paternoster-Row London: Printed for the author and sold by J. Debrett; B.& J. White and T.N. Longman 1796. Second edition illustrated with six engraved plates of which 4 are folding octavo pp xvi 211 i one page advertisement for the author's "Culture of the Vine" slightly age-toned internally fore-edge slightly marked which transfers lightly to the margin of page 97 and the opposing blank the title page a little more marked but otherwise very sound and tight internally recently bound in paper covered boards with a printed label on the spine in very clean condition. The second edition is preferable - it is much updated and with four extra plates. Blanche Henrey 1375. The pineapple had been grown for many decades in England but it was Speechly 1735 - 1819 who improved the design and structure of the houses. He discovered that the plants should not be kept at too hot a temperature in the winter and experimented with forcing pineapples in beds of oak leaves instead of the comparatively expensive and unpredictable tanner's bark. He worked for 34 years for the 3rd Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey in Northamptonshire. Second edition. Boards. Good. Printed for the author and sold by J. Debrett; B.& J. White, and T.N. Longman Hardcover
2009Q-0615308228Ramsay Publishing 2009-09-23. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ramsay Publishing paperback
0656801255.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1975009336West Lafayette Indiana: Purdue University Press 1975. Illustrated thick quarto pp xviii 623 very clean internally pictorial boards slightly worn and rubbed corners slightly bumped. A very comprehensive work on temperate fruits and nuts and subtropical fruits. Very heavy - extra postage may be required Alan Davidson's copy with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948 Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington Tunis Brussels Cairo the Hague; from 1973 to 1975 he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a stencil machine. A copy reached the British cooking guru Elizabeth David who passed it on to Penguin Books which published it in 1972 as Mediterranean Seafood. This was followed by Seafood Of South East Asia 1979 and North Atlantic Seafood 1979 for which he travelled throughout the region gathering thousands of recipes from Portugal to Iceland. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Good. Purdue University Press Hardcover
1903023034San Francisco 1903. Small octavo pp 299 the office copy from County of Santa Barbara Department of Agriculture with two neat stamps on the front endpapers and a stamp on top bottom and fore-edge but otherwise extremely clean internally. Brown cloth decorated in green very slightly frayed at the spine head but otherwise very good. Extremely scarce. A highly important work in viticulture. For some twenty years earlier the phylloxera insect had decimated American vineyards having created equal havoc earlier in Europe. Some American vines had natural resistance to the American phylloxera insect and the book promoted hybridisation and grafting using these at first less popular cultivars. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Hardcover
1962022974Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romine 1962. Roumanian text. Volume 5 covering the grape cultivars K - Z. Well illustrated large thick quarto pp 701 iii very clean internally grey cloth with titling in red and black just slightly worn. A duplicate from East Malling Research Station with their stamps on the front endpaper and a shelf label on the spine. Very heavy - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romine Hardcover
1787016686Poultry & Lombard Street London: Charles Dilly & James Phillips 1787. Octavo pp xx 51 a little age-toning and discolouration the title page more marked and with a small old paper repair to the upper corner a near contemporary signature - "R. Prime" - to the title page otherwise very sound internally. in a later twentieth century simple quarter calf binding a little marked and faded the boards slightly bowed. Of great interest is the seedsman's advertisement bound in at the front - Observations on the Culture of the Mangel Wurzel by Jenkins and Gwyther Nursery and Seedsmen New Road and in the Regent's Park. Ths extends to two and a half small sides folded and marked with the remains of an address and a postmark on the final side. Lettsom's work is rare anyway and I can find no trace of another copy of the Jenkins and Gwyther advertisement. Abbe de Commerell had a great interest in husbandry and made a special study of vegetable and fodder crops. Seed of the mangel wurzel fell in to Lettsom's hands and after sowing it at his botanic garden at Grove Hill he found that it produced an excellent crop for both humans and cattle. He immediately commissioned a translation which went in to three editions within a month. His efforts fell on stony ground and he was somewhat derided for his enthusiasm. Shortly in to the next century however it was greatly taken up by farmers. It was at this time that Jenkins and Gwyther issued their little pamphlet. Their nursery at Regent's Park subsequently became the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society. The owner of this copy was Richard Prime of Walberton House near Arundel. Prime a strong Tory was M.P. for the western division of Sussex 1847-54 and the dominant figure in Walberton in his day. Blanche Henrey 556. Second edition. Quarter leather. Good. Charles Dilly & James Phillips Hardcover
1992722594Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery 1992-11-01. First Edition. hardcover. Good/No D/J. 11x9x0. One of 1500 limited editions. Slight fading to boards and spine. Front board is stained.Small black label to spine. Fruitmarket Gallery hardcover
0266901271.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover