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1847BOOKS059540INew York: Greeley & McElrath 1847. HC. good 3/4 leather marbled boards hardcover light edgewear. B&W text ill. color plate. Volume II only of THE BOOK OF THE FARM which was published as part of THE FARMERS' LIBRARY - "DETAILING THE LABORS OF THE FARMER STEWARD PLOWMAN HEDGER CATTLE-MAN SHEPHERD FIELD-WORKER AND DAIRYMAID." Contents of this volume partially contain: Fattening; Driving and Slaughtering Swine; Corn Markets; Dunghills and Liquid-Manure Tanks; Cows Calving and Calves; Repairing the Fences of Grass-Fields; Making Butter and Cheese; Hay-Making; Lifting and Pitting Potatoes; Sowing Autumn Wheat; and much much more. Color plate of a "Five Year Old Ayrshire Cow" and technical plates follow text of: Threshing Machine; Crank Steam Engine; Steam Engine Boiler; Water Wheel; Norge Wheel; Broadcast Sowing Machine; Drill Sowing machine; and a few more. The plates are followed by a few more pages with articles entitles: MANURES AMELIORATORS AND STIMULANTS; THE NUTRITION OF PLANTS; and THE ACTION OF SALT UPON VEGETATION. 462pp index. Greeley & McElrath unknown
1972g8324London: Trustees of The British Museum Natural History. VG : in very good condition with lightly edge chipped dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 180mm 10" x 7". 528pp. 400 diagrams. Publication No. 717. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Trustees of The British Museum [Natural History] hardcover
2002021525-BNazraeli Press 2002. Book. Illus. by Stephen Shore . New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Limited Edition of only 1000 copy's Gray cloth hardcover with tipped on photo plate to the front cover and black letters 30 page book. Stephen Shore has signed only on the main title page. Illustrated with his beautiful full page black & white plates taken with a 8" x 10 view camera. A very scarce signed copy . Condition : NEW . Nazraeli Press Hardcover
195409011025Thomas Nelson 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Winslade. Hardcover. 230 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Thomas Nelson 1954. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. Illustrator: Winslade. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; Inventory No: 09011025. Thomas Nelson hardcover
19304775Harper & Brothers 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. 12mo cloth <br/><br/> Presentation from Scar Neck and Steele to Walter Drew. Code: G-E is July 1930 Harper & Brothers hardcover
1972043017Amherst: University of Massachusetrs Press 1972. HEAVY. xxvii 480pp notes bw plates some folding folding map. Or cream cloth in jackt. Slight edge wear to jacket including a couple of very small tears. Single volume edition taken from the 2 volume edition by the Imprint Society the year before. In 1773 the author a member of the Scots Brigade of the Netherlands volunteered for an expedition against the Cottica Rebels runaway slaves in Surinam. When he arrived most of the fighting was over and he devoted his time to writing the journals that form the basis of this narrative. He noted every aspect of life in Surinam: the animals and plants the dress and customs of the local Indians and the effects of slavery. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. University of Massachusetrs Press Hardcover
190634455Doubleday New York 1906. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Contains discreet faint rubber stamps front and rear "Buskett Private Library No " being a previous owner and not an ex-library significance. Very faint drink ring on front cover otherwise in excellent condition. . Size: Octavo standard book size. 104 pages. Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Animals & Birds; United States; 1900-1920; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 34455. . Doubleday hardcover
19982090502113716895Not Available 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19672090202118204726Japan Maritime Information Association 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Japan Maritime Information Association paperback
1330173473.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
33906NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1963. First Edition; small 4to; pictorial cloth covered boards; hardcover; color illustrations; French text; lightly edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy in a price clipped sunned lightly soiled and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. <br/><br/> NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1963) hardcover
0332043819.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1331979714.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1879244697Paris: Au Siege De La Societe 1879. First Edition. Softcover. Good copies all in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 30 volumes; Contents; Janvier 1879 Février-Mars 1879 Avril 1879 Mai 1879 Juin 1879 Juin-Juillet 1879 Aout 1879 Décembre 1879 Janvier 1878 Février 1878 Mars 1878 Avril 1878 Mai 1878 Juin 1878 Juillet-Aout 1878 Septembre-Octobre 1878 Janvier 1876 Fevrier 1876 Mars 1876 Avril 1876 Mai 1876 Juin 1876 Juillet 1876Aout 1876 Septembre 1876 Octobre 1876 Novembre 1876 Décembre 1876. Janvier 1880 Février-Mars-Avril 1880 Mai 1880 Juin 1880.Subjects; Société Protectrice des Anumaux Reconnu. Bulletins. 19th century. Paris: Au Siege De La Societe paperback
0332655628.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1952BOOKS075258ISan Diego CA: Herpetologists League 1952. HC. very good bound in green buckram cloth hardcover. B&W illustrations. Nine issues three years handsomely bound together. Full details and images available on our website - ask for link. Herpetologists League unknown
1957013397New York: Viking 1957. Turquoise cloth binding lightly soiled slight spine cock else square and tight. Hinges good. Illustrated endpapers - interior clean with slightly yellowing pages. 199 pages. DJ has sun-faded spine covers a bit faded and lightly soiled shelfwear wrinkles a few chips. Not price-clipped - $2.75 on front flap. Scarce 1st edition. Basis for the Disney movie but oh-so-much better a story! The book club edition does not include the many illustrations of this original edition. Story of Pongo and Missis - Perdita is actually a nurse-dog in the book. The original story goes into much more detail on the Dalmatians' search for their puppies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Grahame-Johnstone Janet and Anne. 1st US. Hardcover. Good/Good. Viking Hardcover
1970013399New York: Viking 1970. Pink pictorial hardcover binding clean and tight. Front hinge a bit shaky back library pocket intact. Some smudges but overall clean interior. DJ not price-clipped - $3.77 Front flapp a bit torn along eges part of text misnnig - it had been glued inside covers and removed to place in clean Brodart jacket. 199 pages. Basis for the Disney movie but oh-so-much better a story! The book club edition does not include the many illustrations of this original edition. Story of Pongo and Missis - Perdita is actually a nurse-dog in the book. The original story goes into much more detail on the Dalmatians' search for their puppies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 7th printing. Illus. by Grahame-Johnstone Janet and Anne. Hardcover. Fair/Good. Viking Hardcover
00006299New York: Carlton & Porter 188 pages with 4 pages of ads for books for sunday schools really nice illustrations inscription on front free end page Morristown M. G. S. School No. 20 1868. Carlton & Porter hardcover
1917012003New York: E.P. Dutton 1917. Maroon hardcover cloth binding with gilt title and Irish Terrier illustration on front cover - binding secure and tight.DJ missing chips and closed tears. Protected now in clean Brodart jacket. Bumped corners. Frontispiece illustration of "Army" the hero of the story and the title page. Tissue intact between frontispiece and title page. 5 other b/w sketches in story. Interior clean and tight no other writing tears or marks. Foxing. 111 pages. True story of a brave Irish Terrier dog - the bravery of a man the faithfulness of a dog the kind heart of the British Tommy and the wanton cruelty of the German Hun. Author heard the story from a Major Edgar and with the major's kind permission was allowed to elaborate it into this story which is told from the dog's viewpoint. A nice copy of a scarce title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illus. by Illustrated. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Fair. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
1917011871New York: E.P. Dutton 1917. Maroon hardcover cloth binding with gilt title and Irish Terrier illustration on front cover - binding secure and tight. Bumped corners. Frontispiece illustration of "Army" the hero of the story and the title page. Tissue intact between frontispiece and title page. 5 other b/w sketches in story. Interior clean and tight no other writing tears or marks. Foxing. 111 pages. True story of a brave Irish Terrier dog - the bravery of a man the faithfulness of a dog the kind heart of the British Tommy and the wanton cruelty of the German Hun. Author heard the story from a Major Edgar and with the major's kind permission was allowed to elaborate it into this story which is told from the dog's viewpoint. A nice copy of a scarce title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illus. by Illustrated. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
191709505New York: E.P. Dutton 1917. Maroon hardcover cloth binding with gilt title and Irish Terrier illustration on front cover has slighlty cocked spine binding secure and tight. Bumped corners rubbed top and bottom of spine. Penciled gift inscription fep. Tissue between b/w frontispiece illustration of "Army" the hero of the story and the title page. 5 other b/w sketches in story. Interior clean and tight no writing tears or marks. Foxing. 111 pages. True story of a brave Irish Terrier dog - the bravery of a man the faithfulness of a dog the kind heart of the British Tommy and the wanton cruelty of the German Hun. Author heard the story from a Major Edgar and with the major's kind permission was allowed to elaborate it into this story which is told from the dog's viewpoint. A nice copy of a scarce title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illus. by Illustrated. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
20000372692000. Painting. Illus. by Ann Smith. Very Good. Framed. A fine framed and glazed original botanical watercolour painting of Rosa moyesii 325 x 360 mm frame 560 x 590 mm with a double white acid-free conservation mount and clean-lined solid hardwood frame with a 'limed' finish. By the late botanical artist Ann Smith signed and dated 1998. The frame is very slightly marked otherwise in very good condition ready to hang. Artist's biography: Ann Smith was a goldsmith by trade a highly skilled artisan working out of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds but with a passion for botanical illustration. She was a member of various botanical art societies; she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society RHS Botanical Art exhibitions held in The Lindley Hall London; for the 2004 exhibition she prepared a mixed collection of botanical works including studies of Romneya coulteri and Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere' in a later exhibition she presented a themed collection featuring various Meconopsis blue popy species and cultivars. Ann Smith was an accomplished botanical artist who painted with great fidelity her plants morphologically accurate and finely detailed but her paintings are always well composed and perhaps it is this her strong sense of composition that is her greatest quality.We hold a number of original paintings by this artist so please enquire if you are looking for particular botanical subjects. Shipping cost will require an adjustment. Shipping cost will require an adjustment. unknown
19980372661998. Painting. Illus. by Ann Smith. Very Good. Framed. A fine framed and glazed original botanical watercolour painting of Magnolia grandiflora 490 x 345 mm frame 700 x 560 mm with a double white acid-free conservation mount and clean-lined solid hardwood frame with a 'limed' finish. By the late botanical artist Ann Smith signed and dated 1998. The frame is very slightly marked otherwise in very good condition ready to hang. Artist's biography: Ann Smith was a goldsmith by trade a highly skilled artisan working out of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds but with a passion for botanical illustration. She was a member of various botanical art societies; she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society RHS Botanical Art exhibitions held in The Lindley Hall London; for the 2004 exhibition she prepared a mixed collection of botanical works including studies of Romneya coulteri and Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere' in a later exhibition she presented a themed collection featuring various Meconopsis blue popy species and cultivars. Ann Smith was an accomplished botanical artist who painted with great fidelity her plants morphologically accurate and finely detailed but her paintings are always well composed and perhaps it is this her strong sense of composition that is her greatest quality. We hold a number of original paintings by this artist so please enquire if you are looking for particular botanical subjects. Shipping cost will require an adjustment. In an exhibition held by the artist this work was priced at £750. unknown
2005038457United Kingdom 2005. Painting. Illus. by Ann Smith. Fine. Framed. Original. see description. A fine framed and glazed original botanical watercolour painting of of Meconopsis 'Willie Duncan' by the late botanical artist Ann Smith signed and dated 2005. Tall thin portrait format; painting: 680 x 240 mm; frame: 870 x 440 mm. With double white acid-free conservation mount the lower edge of the outer mount lightly rippled the images make this look more significant than it actually is clean-lined wood frame stained white lightly rubbed. Very good. Artist's biography: Ann Smith was a goldsmith by trade a highly skilled artisan working out of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds but with a passion for botanical illustration. She was a member of various botanical art societies; she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society RHS Botanical Art exhibitions held in The Lindley Hall London; for the 2004 exhibition she prepared a mixed collection of botanical works including studies of Romneya coulteri and Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere' in a later exhibition she presented a themed collection featuring various Meconopsis blue popy species and cultivars. Ann Smith was an accomplished botanical artist who painted with great fidelity her plants morphologically accurate and finely detailed but her paintings are always well composed and perhaps it is this her strong sense of composition that is her greatest quality. We hold a a significant stock so please enquire if you are looking for particular botanical illustrations. UK shipping for this item is likely be around £20. unknown
