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1892008433Sacramento: A. J. Johnston State Printing Office 1892 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pp. 4 458 plus frontispiece 53 plates including 2 color plates of Beneficial Insects numerous text illustrations. Index. Publisher's original pebbled black cloth gilt lettering and pictorial element of the Goddess Pomona to spine. Corners of two leaves slightly crunched ink stamps to front and rear endpaper. A very fine copy. First edition of this Biennial Report. Includes the Reports for both 1893 and 1894. Covers the normal reports to the Governor etc. Also includes transactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth State Fruit Growers' Convention and of course information on the Horticultural Exhibit at the Midwinter Fair held in San Francisco 1894. The frontis illustration shows a portion of the exhibit; the second section of the book provides the article Exhibit at Midwinter Fair and Horticultural Day Tree pp. 443-451 including a photographic plate showing the Mission Olive Tree labeled the Horticultural Day Tree planted at the west side of the Fine Arts Building at the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park. This was one of the famous and historic trees at San Diego over a century old "from which dates the first period in the horticultural history of California." Other key articles include those on apricots cherries Fruit Growers in the Santa Maria Valley another on California Almonds etc. . A. J. Johnston, State Printing Office hardcover
184633512Cincinnati: L'Hommedieu & Co 1846. 8vo. 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches. 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
183234364Washington DC: n.p. 1832. Letter. Very good. Letter dated November 22d 1832. Approx. 8" x 10" one page signed at the bottom by Woodbury. The left edge of the letter is neatly tipped onto a larger sheet of paper with "Levi Woodbury Sec. of Navy" written in pencil at the top The title is not written in Woodbury's hand. <br /> <br /> The contents of the signed letter read - "Gentleman I have received your letter of the 17th instant asking for some seeds of the Tesk tree and have refereed it to the Secretary of the Treasury who has charge of the seeds.- I am respectfully Your Obed Servt signed Levi Woodbury. Addressed at bottom "Willm. Prince & Sons Flushing New York." Levi Woodbury 1789-1851 was Secretary of the Navy during Andrew Jackson's administration United States Senator from New Hampshire and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The receiver of this letter William Prince of William Prince and Son's Flushing New York was a known United States Horticulturist. n.p. unknown
1858TK0143Stuttgart:: E. Schweizerbact'sche . . . 1858 1860-1887. 1858. 29 volumes. NUMEROUS HAND-COLORED PLATES. Contemporary half cloth or marbled boards mixed bindings; some wear. A monthly magazine about floriculture horticulture and fruit growing. Illustrated with hundreds of mostly colored lithographed plates. Published by the horticultural society Flora in Stuttgart and court gardener Lebl from 1871. Stuttgart Schweizerbart 1858 and 1860- 1887. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL CERTAINLY APPLY. E. Schweizerbact'sche . . . 1858, 1860-1887. hardcover
178558346Paris: Chez Debure 1785. 12mo 17cm; contemporary sprinkled calf page edges dyed red; xliv1-5585pp; engraved frontispiece 5 folding plates following text. Page 490 is mis-numbered "390"; p.516 mis-numbered "116." A complete sound copy the text quite fresh and the folding copperplates in excellent condition. The leather spine is cracked vertically weak at the joints and has lost a tiny portion of its spine label; overall complete and Good. Embossed blindstamp of a previous collector to the title page. <br /> <br /> Originally published in 1771 reissued in an expanded format in 1774 of which this appears to be a reprint. There was a companion volume Pratique du Jardinage which appeared in 1770. HUNT 403 citing the 1774 edition and providing the editor's identity. Chez Debure unknown
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
18679337New York: William Wood & Co 1867. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo each part separately paginated 152 212 166pp. Indices. Engravings and woodcut vignette illustrations by S. Edwards Todd. Publisher's purple cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards soiled and faded spine dulled. Hinges starting but sound and clean internally. Very good. <br /> <br /> Nicely illustrated edition in original cloth of this comprehensive American horticultural work from Thomas Bridgeman 1786-1850. Bridgeman was born in England and emigrated to the U.S. in 1824 opening a seed store. He authored several other titles on gardening. <br /> <br /> Both the first edition of 1866 and this enlarged 1867 edition are surprisingly scarce. William Wood & Co unknown
