Barnard, CharlesMareMagnum
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345 + 76 pages plus several pages of advertisements. Undated but appears to be circa late 1800s. Front hinge open. Front board holding by backstrip only. Above-average wear. Reading copy only. Despite these defects, what a wonderful inspiration this vintage book this will be for someone looking for a new career, closer to home, and to nature. Book
Volume I covers 1515-1849 while Volume II spans 1850-1950. Volume I is 40 pages plus a large collection of black and white plates. Volume II is 37 pages plus another large collection of full-page black and white plates. Inclusions in this work are restricted to painters for whom, in at least one known painting the inclusion of representational flowers, fruit or still life has been of major importance. This definition allows the inclusion of many of the almost unknown illustrators who, working for scientific or horticultural publications have nevertheless served the two masters - Art and Science. Front endpaper removed from Volume I. Usual library markings to both volumes else unmarked. Average wear to blue boards. No library markings to exterior except darkened patches where library stickers were removed from spines. Bindings sound. Book
224 pages. Black and white illustrations. "A fascinating book..." Anthony Clare, Sunday Times. "...Tells the extraordinary story of sex before marriage in Britain during the first half of our century. Based on many surprisingly frank interviews with old people, and studded throughout with moving extracts from their life stories, it is the first major investigation into the sexual experiences of young lovers of the past." - from back cover. 'A necessary book... exploring the underworld of furtive sex and social double standards." - Evening Standard. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 48 pages. Full bright red cloth boards are sharp and square, with tiny spot near spine. 7 1/4"w x 8 1/2"h. Beautiful illustrations in color and b&w by Arnold Dobrin. Contents: What is Fruit? Fruit Families; Pomes; Drupes; Berries; Conclusion; Index.
Book shows light shelf wear with a little sunning to spine and edges. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 60 pages. The author befriended Ron Padgett and poet and artist Joe Brainard; the three went on to produce The White Dove Review, a magazine that published a number of writers associated with the American midcentury avant-garde, including Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), and Robert Creeley. Mr. Gallup is author of Hinges (1965), The Bingo (1966), Where I Hang My Hat (1970), The Wacking of the Fruit Trees: A Poem in 13 Parts (1975), and Above the Tree Line (1976). Gallup stopped publishing for many years until the release of Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things: New and Selected Poems (2001). Limited edition: 1/750 Rare.
410 pages. Subject was born in Winnipeg as the third son of J.S. Woodsworth. With his geological degree he pioneered in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Northern Rhodesia. He taught high school for 17 years, became principal, and was a fruit farmer in the Okanagan. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Blank bookplate inside front cover. Excellent copy. Book
pp. 292, 171, 69, 93, 20 + Full page plates, a few chromolithograph plates. Large 8vo. 245 mm. Individually paginated reports from: the State Agricultural Society; the State Dairymen's Association; the State Horticultural Association; the State College; etc. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good condition. AG BX 1
888p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition! small dampstain in bottom margin
Pages 41-80 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The House of C.P. Searle, Esq., at Ipswich, Massachusetts; Hand-Made Rugs, the Revival of an Old Handicraft; Three Types of Gambrell Roof Houses - the home of Mr. Walter C. Sampson, at Summit, New Jersey, the home of Arthur E. Thayer at Dedham, Massachusetts, the home of Mr. Farnham, and the home of Mr. James Purdon, of Boston; Plant Breeding; The Dino Collection of Historic Armor - collected by the late Duc de Dino, Marquis of Talleyrand-Perigord; The Use of Anesthetics for Plants; A Few Neglected Fruits; A Seventeenth Century Homestead near Boston; A Wood Garden - at the country seat of Mr. H.H. Battles at Newton Square, PA; Nature's Traps; The Country Seat of Charles S. Brown, Esq., Mount Kisco, New York; A New Method of Housekeeping; The New Seed testing Station in Paris at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, then the Agronomic Institute in the Rue Cervantes; Great color back cover ad for Pierce Arrow cars (The George N. Pierce Company) features illustration of chauffeur holding door for woman in orange coat on city street; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Plastics vs. clay - one man's experience; orchid genera illustrated - IV; hints on potting and potting media; Brassia antherotes (B. longissima) - collector's item; germination and growth of orchids on banana fruit tissue and some of its extracts; Broughtonia Hybrid genera; Solite - South Florida's controversial Potting medium; Cymbidium suave; The ten most common questions asked about Phalaenopsis; A standard cymbidium culture calandar - a Gripp on growing. Some tearing along cover fold. Book
96 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
Paris Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, bibliothèque du Jardinier - 1878 - In-12 broché - traces d'humidité - 167 pages.
8vo [22.5 x 16 cm]; 192 pp, colored frontis, 24 plates, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (frayed and rubbed, price clipped), name on endpaper, lightly foxed on outer edge of text block, interior is clean and fine, overall very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. One of the most famous of twentieth century plant collectors and adventurers describes berries especially for the home garden, including the rose, honeysuckle family, barberry, spindletree, heaths, blueberry, citrus, other colored fruits, holly, mistletoe, sea buckthorn, etc. A final chapter classifies the berry plants by color.
50 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
Paris, "Encyclopédie Agricole", J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1913. Petit in-8 reliure toile verte éditeur, 618 pages avec des illustrations-24 pages de catalogue. Mors un peu fragile
64 pages. Features: A Selection of Label Only Bottles - lovely photos with article; Pets and Patent Medicines - many great vintage illustrations with article; Irish Whisky Bottles - photos and article; Many ads; Indy Fruit Jar Show; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Winternational 1994; Kaukauna Klub Cheese Crocks; Commercial Packing Jars - Canton Domestic Fruit Jar; My First Outhouse Dig, by Tony Charlton. Some soiling to front cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Palmer Story - Palmer Perfumer, the First American Perfumer; Trade Cards - article with reprints of amazing vintage cards; Jar Talk - fruit jar wrenches and more canning information; Bottle-Dose - The Heckler - Skinner - Keene Show; British Bottle Bits - What was in those tooth pastes? - a fascinating article!; Extra Special Deliveries; Northwestern Show; Up-Dates; Messages; Auction Directory; Miniature Bottle Show - San Francisco Bay area; Chinese Gold Mining Camp - an account of our find during the drought of '76-'77, by Seth Simpson. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
80 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Schramm Glass Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, 1905-1925; Jar Talk - Killer Fruit Jars; Hair Raising Stories - Tricopherous for the Hair; British Bottle Bits - Unlisted Poison Bottle - John Southerst Patent, fantastic ads for vintage machines; Great illustrated two-page ad for a Western Glass Auctions event; Extra Special Deliveries; S.L.O.B.S. - The San Louis Obisbo Bottle Society; Bottle Network News - The Pioneer Drug Store, by David Bethman; Auctions; Bottle Displays welcome new collectors; Up-Dates; Golden Gate Show; My Little Brown Jug - Charlie Horn digs up a M.& M.Co. Island City, Oregon jug; Extraordinaire - Potomac Show & Slick's Auction, including photo of Vaseline jar collection. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Fare You Well, Mr. Mooney - Dale Mooney, of Tracy, CA, and The Bottle Mine is moving to the east coast - great photo-illustrated article by John Walker; Advertising Stoneware - "The Origins", by Jack Sullivan; Hair Raising Stories - San Francisco Hair Restorers, by Don Fadely; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; Torquay Advertising, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Putnum's Closures - Lightning Fruit Jars, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Mary & The Italian Bitters Bottle, by John Cooper. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Rubbing to covers. A sound copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with one bumped corner, grey, heavy weave cloth HB wth green print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners otherwise, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is sunned with small tears at upper edge. 920 pages. "The translator has given the word-for-word meaning of each aphorism under its Sanskrit text, followed by a running translation, with additional words in brackets for clarification. In the translation of the commentary, the tets setting forth doubts, the copponent's views, objectins on the latter, and the Vedantin's answers have been show separately, to facilitate easy comprehension." Contents include: The blissful one, The being inside, Pratardana, The eater, The internal ruler, Vaisvanara, Cods, Pseudo-sudra, Vibration, Causality, Balaki, Explanation of everything, Conflict with smrti, Refutation of yoga, Wholesale transformation, Samkhya view refuted, Vaisesika objection refuted, Atons not the cuase of universe, Refutation of Buddhist realists, Buddhist idealism refuted, Jaina view rufuted, God is not a mere superintendent, Bhagavata view refuted, Origin of space,, air, fire, water, earth, mind, intellect, Soul as agent, Atomic pranas, Creation of gross objects, Fate of evil-doers, Souls in plants and thereafter, Fruits of action, Purusa as the highest in kattha, People with a mission, Yoni as source, Self distinct from body, Characteristics of the liberated soul, Entry into many bodies, Acquisition of divine powers, etc.
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photos of operators at work in Haney, Nanaimo and Port Moody; $35 million improvement and expansion programme; Rotation billing will be inaugurated in March; Ed Tomer terminates 44-year career; Victoria says good-bye to George Gaetz; Daniel G. Houston - he installed phones in the horse-and-wagon days; Retirement of Thomas (Tom) Smith; photos of W.J. Jefree's clothing store and W.J. Pendray soap works, both in Victoria - the first commercial firms in British Columbia to be linked by a telephone line, in 1880; Photo of Nanaimo's first telephone office in 1887 at the fruit store of Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Cavalsky; Photo of splicer's school; Annual report reveals record demand for service as result of great growth of province; World telephone network is operating again; A farewell to Dave Falconer; The telephone situation as we see it today; Hammond-Haney toll charges eliminated; From Office Boy to District Plant Chief - Lindsay Morrison; High school visitors to the Hasting's operator area; New Building Commemorates Name of First Company President, William Farrell - article with photos; A Report on the telephone situation in B.C.; Thirty-Four Years of Phone Service at Parksville; First commercial VHF circuits now in service here; Toll Chief Operator weds Chief Engineer - A.H. Lemmon and Lila Boden; advertising slogans; Wirephoto service comes to Vancouver; Telephony made great Strides during Labelle Career - Eugene P. LaBelle retires after 44 years in telephony *THIS APPEARS TO BE THE PERSONAL COPY OF MR. LABELLE AS HIS NAME IS STAMPED ON TOP EDGE OF TEXT*; A.C. Bull Elected Federation President; Photo of lovely twin sister operators in Vancouver; Photos behind the scenes at the Victoria Plant Building; New Dial Offic, 'Cedar', Now in Service; 800,000 phone calls per day in Vancouver; Wage increases for 1,000 plant employees; Meet the Executive Assistant's Department - many photos; Nearly 3,800 Bayview phones 'cut' to Cedar; Revenue accounting girls adopt three orphans; replica's of 3 recent billboards, 2 of which include suggestions for party line use; misc. photos of Fraser Valley operators; 1947 was record year despite shortages; *Car phone* service now available - with photo; Leo Griggs, Nanaimo Plant Head, retires; Fifteen years ago; Three blind mice in South America - Kathleen Stephen and Catherine Wilson recall their trip; Ads advise fewer calls, shorter calls - with 2 ads; "Newton" joins our telephone family - story and photos; 1947 progress was offset by record demand annual report points out; 37 years of ups and downs - Percy Turley, cable-splicing foreman; Miss Gertrude Greaves honoured; Photos of Seymour (Vancouver) operators; photo of radiotelephone transmitting station at Lulu Island; various photos inside Kamloops office with staff; article on John (Jack) C. Hemer; Operators learn Human Nature's Queer Quirks; Newspaper columnist visits new William Farrell Building; Trans-Canada phone system construction job resumed - text and photos; photos of staff and facilities at Princeton; Spirit of service triumphs over flood - photos of washed out Mission bridge and more, plus article; PNE float photos; Introducing the company's new business library; New submarine cable links Vancouver and North Shore - photos and text; T. Percy Waters Book
Saint-Brieuc Imprimerie-lithographie de René Prud'home - 1893 - In-8 - Broché - XXXIV & 182 Pages - - Propre
72 pages. Features: Cover illustrations features Bell's Inks of Ottawa; "New" Bitters Claimed for Canada - Royal Italian Bitters, probably Canada's most beautiful bitters bottle; The Empress Fruit Jar; Digging Report - with photos; The Big Coca-Cola Dig - on the old Expo '86 site in Vancouver]; Canadian Glass Insulators - The Foster Brothers Glass Works, St. Johns, Canada East (1855-1880); Canadian Jar Talk - The American Nag Co. Porcelain Lined; The Beaver Soda Water Works; Black Glass in 18th Century Europe; C. Gates, Son & Company Limited Middleton, Nova Scotia - One of Canada's Oldest Medicine Companies 1840-1949; Bell's Inks, Ottawa; New and Unknown Gingers; Fraser Valley Show, Oct '93; Canadian Clubs; Show Listings; Interesting letters to the editor; Classifieds; Black and white illustrations. Printed upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this particularly informative issue. Book
A very rare catalogue of hundreds of fruit trees offered for sale by Cottin. 32 pp. Provides a full description of each tree and its fruit. An association copy from the collection of Comte Hippolyte de Castillon de Saint-Victor (1830-1898), who assembled a celebrated library in the field of botany (his signature on front wrapper). Several neat, contemporary manuscript additions. Small 8vo. Original wraps. Wraps worn but complete. Internally very clean. Extraordinarily rare: I have located no other copies.
Book is in excellent condition; binding seems a little brittle from age, but book shows little wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Part of Waveland Press Case Studies series, a detailed anthropogical study with maps, tables, songs, b&w photos. 236 pages.
