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199506041scsN.1.: Florida State Horticutural Society 1995. Quarto softbound xvi 450 pp iv pp. Photos illus. Articles for: Citrus Garden & Landscape Handling & Processing Ornamentals and Vegetables. Fine. Florida State Horticutural Society, 1995. paperback books
197046215Barre Masstts: Barre Publishers. Printed by David Godine 1970. 1st Edition. Limited to 1000cc. SIGNED by the illustrator. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Slipcase with printed paper title label to one side. A VG copy that has a slight lean in a VG slipcase that has a price sticker removal abrasion in one corner. Unpaginated. Wood engravings by Tyler. 8vo. <br/><br/> Barre Publishers. Printed by David Godine hardcover books
1868008888Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company 1868. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. viii 384 pages of text. Hardcover binding; leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards. Front board is detached and leather is moderately rubbed at the extremities. First and final several pages of text have a large stain on them but the vast majority of the text remains clean. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Previous owner's name "E. N. Badger" on front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly to front endpaper. J.E. Tilton and Company Hardcover books
18920000285Philadelphia: W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 1892. First edition. 24mo 24 pp. illustrated. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps. Lightly soiled trace edge wear Very Good. <br/><br/>The first known book devoted to sweet peas in the United States located by OCLC in just 5 copies. Published by Burpee the author of course promotes the company but also provides instructions on proper cultivation. The Horthistoria website describes the Reverend Hutchins as an avid gardener who kept a beautiful garden in Indian Orchard who when he found sweet peas "was enchanted for life." W. Atlee Burpee & Co. paperback books
187119479Mattoon Illinois: T. E. Woods ca. 1871. First edition. Some slight soiling browning and light wear; in very good condition. Unbound pamphlet stitching evidently renewed 7.63 x 5.25 inches 8 pages. Full page woodcut of an unnamed rose variety. OCLC notes two 1871 examples of Montgomery price lists in the Gilbert Seed Catalog Collection at the National Agricultural Library but not this one. Comparison to digitized copies suggest this undated version of Montgomery's price list had lower production values--perhaps a result of a post-1873 economic downturn Or the simple charms of a small-town downstate printer T. E. Woods, unknown books
185673463Columbus Ohio: S. D. Harris. Good. 1856. Softcover. 14 issues of the OHIO CULTIVATOR 1856. Some toning and edge rubbing chipping; Issues meaures 12" x 8" and average 16 pages in length. Illustrated. Good condition. . S. D. Harris paperback books
18806502Geneva N.Y.; Rochester N.Y.: The Nursery; Rochester Litho. Co 1880. Tall top-hinged octavo 22.5 x 15 cm. 152 pages. Illustrated in chromolithography and half-tone prints overprinted in one or two colors. Rectos contain images of the individual varieties of plants while the versos contain descriptive text. Title from cover. An attractive sample book from Geneva New York's Fairview Nurseries using what appears to exclusively images from the famous Rochester Lithograph Company. The nursery carries a wide selection of apples peaches pears plums berry fruits flowers ornamental shrubs and trees. The first leaf has been adhered chromolithograph inks can be sticky! to the endpaper and leaf has been torn as a result. Some degree of adhesion from nearly absent to fairly visible to most chromolithograph plates; otherwise bright and clean. Publisher's red-titled black cloth. Scarce. OCLC locates two similar catalogues Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art & the Esther Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection of Cornell. The Nursery; Rochester Litho. Co hardcover books
187941227San Francisco: Published and Sold by Dewey & Co. Publishers of the Pacific Rural Press 1879. 1st edition. Not in Cowan. Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Spine sunned. Prior owner signatures to front paste-down & top margin p. 100. A VG - VG copy. 122 6 adverts pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>The author speculates that this book the first work written on California horticulture by a Californian for Californians: "This little volume is a venture into a field which the writers of this coast have hitherto carefully avoided.Yet this is a land for vines and fruits and flowers." Preface. Published and Sold by Dewey & Co. Publishers of the Pacific Rural Press hardcover books
181228748Edinburgh: For Archibald Constable and Company et al. 1812. 1st edition Goldsmith 20459; Watt. AUTHORS 705n. Modern brown half calf with marbled paper boards executed in a period style. Eps renewed. Binding - Fine. Textblock - light stain to upper corner otherwise VG. xx 595 1 pp. Last page an advert. 3 inserted copperplate engravings 2 coloured. Woodcut diagram p. 305. 8vo: a8 b2 A - 2O8 2P2. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> For Archibald Constable and Company, et al. hardcover books
184633512Cincinnati: L'Hommedieu & Co 1846. 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.<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>"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.<br/> <br/>Erica Hannickel "Empires of the Vine: Wine Culture in America" Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013 p. 103. L'Hommedieu & Co unknown books
1846WRCAM52412Cincinnati: L'Hommedieu & Co. 1846. 684xix pp. plus three plates. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards spine gilt t.e.g. Bookplate and bookseller's label on front pastedown. Some toning. Very good. 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. hardcover books
1900D11309Paris c. 1900. Hardcover. Fine. Half black calf and mottled green cloth gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; oblong folio 381x280 mm; containing 71 mounted photographs by Constant Robert of 65 Avenue de la Bourdonnais credited on the front board of a French exposition of orchids roses lillies irises bonsai trees and fruit. 57 platinum prints and 14 silver prints ranging in size from 89x127 to 164x229 mm mounted to sheets creating a thin border of beige white or pale grey and heavy grey boards arranged 1 to 4 per page recto only. A lavish album just a bit rubbed along the edges. <br/><br/>The Paris horticultural society originated in 1827 and as it grew became the Royal Horticultural Society 1835 then in 1885 the "Societe Nationale d'Horticulture de France." The exposition portrayed here was extensive and possibly associated with one of the great international French expositions of the turn of the century. All but two images are interior photographs of plants or displays including close-ups of specific blooms arrangements of fruit wide views of the room and an array of Bonsai trees in Oriental ceramic pots. hardcover books