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1803020863London: J. Johnson; G & J Robinson et al 1803. Seventeenth edition. Very thick 12mo pp viii 758 index 96pp some age-toning light staining and marks throughout but not serious the engraved frontispiece is stained and with closed tears - it has been repaired at some time; neatly rebound in quarter leather and marbled boards the spine is un-lettered. A serviceable rebind which has left the contents extremely firm tight and accesable. Blanche Henrey 1069. An immensely popular work. Abercrombie who was really the sole author was an extremely successful gardener and nurseryman. Quarter leather. Good. J. Johnson; G & J Robinson (et al) Hardcover
1797021414Pater-noster Row & Strand London: G.G. & J. Robinson; T. Cadell & W. Davies 1797. Second edition "carefully revised corrected and very much enlarged and improved". Very thick quarto not paginated but probably 1200 pages or more with 11 engraved plates one of which is folding the plates are rather foxed and toned the text is slightly age-toned and foxed though not consistently so the hinge at the title page is cracked but in no way weak and the front endpaper IS loose and indeed the firmness and lack of damage to the pages throughout is remarkable; bound in contemporary speckled calf with marginal gilt lining the spine with gilt decoration and morocco label slightly worn overall very neatly re-backed at some time the original endpapers retained. At some time this copy found its way to the United States as it contains the tiny label of the notable horticultural bookseller Elisabeth Woodburn. Balnche Henrey 1087. One of the most comprehensive and detailed descriptions of horticultural practices at the end of the eighteenth century. Authorship is generally attributed to Abercrombie only. Second edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. G.G. & J. Robinson; T. Cadell & W. Davies Hardcover
1922012406Houston Texas 1922. Letter. Very Good. No Binding. Three-page typed letter dated 2/8/22 on association letterhead signed by T.J. McCabe of the Houston Co-operative Dairy Association Ltd to a stockholder Mr. Sam E. Sorelle. 8.5 X 11 inches folded twice. Mild wear. Cover included creased and worn. Letter content includes the "depressing conditions" in the preceding year 1921 association business intent to incorporate issues of additional stock to current stockholders to raise money food products and an attached financial statement. The association was only three years old and had survived the economic woes of the previous year while older stronger companies had collapsed. That coupled with optimism for their Mayflower trade-name products-"the best grade of butter made or sold in the Houston market" and "the best ice cream in Houston"-presented in their view a positive outlook for future profitability. The company's plant was located at 1120 North Main St. in Houston Texas. Their office location indicated on the letterhead was at 806 Main Street at Rusk in the Carter Building Samuel Fain Carter. An interesting piece of dairy agribusiness and food manufacturing history in Houston in the early post-World War I years. Three pages typed and signed by T.J. McCabe and fastened with a small pin or nail in the upper-left corner. unknown
1828018900London: Thomas Kelly 1828. Two volumes 1828 - 1830. Thick octavo an engraved frontispiece an extra engraved title page thirty plain engraved plates pp xxviii 1120 142 directions to the binder and an advertisement leaf a further advertisement page is placed after the second title page some foxing and age-toning throughout a bookseller's small label on each front endpaper Kempson - Chertsey later brown half calf and green cloth very slightly worn. a little faded the cloth a little marked in the second volume. One of the most important works of late Georgian horticulture. McIntosh made important contributions to the designs of Taymouth Castle Stratton Park Pengethley Claremont Laeken and Dalkeith. He never set out to emulate such figures as Lancelot Brown or Humphry Repton but remained at the cutting edge of contemporary horticultural techniques about which he wrote extensively; perhaps his greatest area of expertise being that of hot-house design and heating seen to great effect in this work . A landmark work in the history of practical horticulture. Some copies have the plates coloured - they are plain in this set. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Thomas Kelly Hardcover
1892016586Albany New York: Weed Parsons & Company 1892. Illustrated with a frontispiece an allegorical plate and a facsimile letter from Victor Hugo small octavo pp xii 200 11 rather age-toned but otherwise very clean and tight original maroon pebble cloth slightly worn and rubbed. SCARCE. The title is about as direct as the rest of the book. The ramblings of this "crazy Frenchman at Albany" shed very little light on the actual events of his life but give an incredible sense of the energetic character of Louis Menand. There are exuberant paeans to his wife Adelaide whom he calls "Phanerogyne" meaning "remarkable woman" who died in 1890. There are rambling thoughts on the various revolutions and republics in France a scathing appraisal of his arrival in a free land "where slavery was flourishing as carnations" and tales of intrigues at flower exhibitions all told in the least linear style imaginable. He was the son of a gardener in Burgundy France. As early as he could remember he was fascinated by horticulture. "I was eight or nine years old" he later wrote "when I began to try to grow plants from cuttings. I have always been fond of cutting properly or figuratively speaking except cutting my fingers." Eventually Louis became an estate gardener in Paris and later in the Champagne region. In 1837 he came to New York and went to work at nurseries in Halett's Cove which would later become Astoria. There he met a young piano teacher from Albany named Adelaide Jackson. They fell in love and were married in her family home on Park Place in Albany and soon took up residence in what they called "the haunted house" on the Albany-Troy Road Broadway. Louis began selling plants. After a rough first year "more than modest that is to say meagre I might say miserable!!" things began to pick up. Menand had a fair collection of "hardy perennial plants" which had become pretty popular in the Albany/Troy area. Later he sold Norway spruces balsam firs and other popular trees and shrubs. In 1847 he was able to buy several acres of land on what is now Menand Road where Ganser-Smith Park is now located for his greenhouses and nursery. He cultivated plants that no doubt had never before been seen in this old Dutch town -- camellias palm ferns cacti and orchids among others. He was noted for importing exotic plants from Europe and commanded an impressive price for his best camellias: "a little plant four inches high would sell for $25." Menand won significant awards for his plants through the years and continued to grow. He bought 31 acres near the entrance to Albany Rural Cemetery where he set up his son with a half dozen hot houses devoted to growing cut flowers roses carnations pansies geraniums and "an almost endless variety of other species suitable for cemetery decoration." These included all manner of shrubs which no doubt still influence the scenery in the cemetery. His greenhouses were so popular that the Albany and Northern Railroad added a stop there in 1856 named "Menand's Crossing" which the succeeding Delaware and Hudson Railroad renamed "Menand's Station." . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Weed, Parsons & Company Hardcover
1894898435.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
51-1644Buffalo New York: Cosack & Company1877. Chromolithograph by Clay Cosack & Co. Buffalo NY. Sheet size 19 x 13.5 inches.Letterpress descriptive pages in English and French.From Treasures of Art Industry and Manufacture Represented in the American Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1876. Edited by C. B. Norton. Buffalo New York: Cosack & Company1877. Buffalo, New York: Cosack & Company,1877 unknown
1752019969The Bible & Crown St Paul's Churchyard: John & James Rivington for the author 1752. Sixth edition carefully revised and adapted to the present day. Folio an engraved allegorical frontispiece and nine engraved plates a light marginal staining at the bottom inner corner of the first ten pages repeated a couple of times later a tear to the last page of the preface and another on a later page both without loss the title page a little creased the hinge between the dedication page and the preface is cracking but without any weakness otherwise quite clean and sound internally full contemporary calf very rubbed and scuffed with surface abrasion but still sound rebacked with a later calf spine probably nineteenth century torn at the spine head with a morocco title label. Bound in at the front is a second frontispiece - The Genius of Botany - drawn by S. Hale and engraved by C. Grignion; this is smaller in format than the book and the only reference I can find is that it acts as the frontispiece to Hill's "Eden" though it seems too small for that work. It is a little creased and lacking part of it's margin. Blanche Henrey 1110. An important edition as it is the last to contain pre-Linnean nomenclature. Includes the Index latinus the lengthy catalogues of plants The Gardeners Kalendar and the Appendix. Sixth edition. Full-Leather. Good. John & James Rivington for the author Hardcover
018120Norwood; Stationers' Hall Court London: The Author; Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co Ltd Quarto illustrated with 22 plates pp 4 116 deckle-edged top edge gilt endpapers a bit foxed and age-toned the ten sepia plates are foxed on their versos but the plates thenselves show only very faint traces the blank pages facing the plates have a little offsetting there is a marginal tear to the plate facing page 37 green cloth slightly scuffed the corners rubbed the spine slightly pulled at head and tail. Overall though still a very presentable copy. SCARCE. The book contains 22 leaves of plates. Ten of these are etched views of gardens or features of garden scenery one of them named as a view of Keszthely. The other ten are lithographed plans two facing each other between pp. 54 and 55 uncoloured and eight including two double-page spreads mounted on stubs with beige and green tint. Among these are plans of the Buxton Pavilion grounds Stoke Cemetery Keszthely and Yeaton Peverey. Milner succeeded his father Edward Milner as director of the Crystal Palace School of Gardening for the prospectus of which see Gardeners' Chronicle 2 April 1881 p. 437. It has been inferred by some that some of the content is based on Edward Milner's works as well as H.E. Milner's own; for example the plate facing p. 63 resembles the landscape garden designed by Edward Milner at Rangemore Hall Staffordshire. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. The Author; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd Hardcover
19862080202103901100Soil Conservation Management Project National Conference 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Soil Conservation Management Project National Conference paperback
18953688St. Louis MO: Missouri Botanical Garden. 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 134 pages blue cloth bevelled split at head of spine; x-library but tight <br/><br/>Scientific papers on North American species of Sagittaria and Lophotocarpus Leitneria Floridana leaf reflexion of Yucca alofolia and the mound flora of Atchison County Missouri by Jared G. Smith William Trelease Herbert J. Webber B. F. Bush. Illustrated with 56 plates. Missouri Botanical Garden. hardcover
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6208127Concept Publishing Company pp. xxxii 718 . Hardback. New. Concept Publishing Company hardcover
1823018905Edinburgh and London: Bell & Bradfrute; Longman Hurstm Rees Orme & Brown 1823. Illustrated with seven engraved plates of which two are folding a few small text illustrations also octavo pp xvi 574 ii contemporary half morocco rebacked fairly recently with a modern plain calf spine and black label. The plates are foxed and there is some offsetting on to the adjacent text pages otherwise the contents are in remarkably good condition. The original binder's ticket is on the front endpaper - Bates of Hexham. A very detailed account of north European horticulture. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Bell & Bradfrute; Longman, Hurstm Rees, Orme & Brown Hardcover
1802018429Edinburgh and London: William Creech; T. Cadell jnr & W. Davies J. Scratcherd and T. Hurst 1802. Third edition "with large editions". Illustrated with 6 engraved plates very foxed and browned octavo pp xvi 427 i marbled edges some sporadic foxing and browning thoughout heavier on a few pages but otherwise very firm and tight contemporary half calf and marbled boards rubbed and a little worn. VERY SCARCE. Walter Nicol 1769 - 1811 was a Scottish garden and hothouse designer who wrote several books on practical horticulture. He was born in Niddrie. He was employed at a number of estates in Scotland and improved the design and layout of gardens and glasshouses. Nicol is in particular responsible for the walled garden layout at Dalhousie Castle in Midlothian."His works which were of a very high standard became exceedingly popular" - Blanche Henrey 1182. Third edition. Half-Leather. Good. William Creech; T. Cadell jnr & W. Davies, J. Scratcherd, and T. Hurst Hardcover
