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1905045330London: The Offices of Country Life George Newes 1905. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. v 960 pages. Volume 17 only January 1905- July 1905. The binding measures 14 1/2 inches tall by almost 10 1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in full green cloth with cover titles in gilt and with beveled edges. Moderate wear to the binding. Binding has some rubbing on the back cover as some light scuff marks and there is a strip of damping along the fore edges of the front and rear covers. Outside edges of the text block are foxed and some of the pages are lightly stuck together at the fore edges but still open easily. A sound copy with clean text. Illustrated throughout with photos of gardens English manor houses dogs hunting Lords and Ladies etc. Three page Index at the front. Inscribed on the title page by the original owner "Dr. G. C. Lippincott U.S.N. / Salem N. Jersey." George C. Lippincott 1850-1951 was a doctor in the U.S. Navy in the 1870s-1880s before he opened his office in Salem. We have several other hardback volumes in this series. <br/> <br/> The Offices of Country Life, George Newes hardcover
1905046925London: The Offices of Country Life George Newes 1905. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. v 960 pages. Volume 18 only July 1905- December 1905. The binding measures 14 1/2 inches tall by almost 10 1/2 inches wide. Hardcover bound in full green cloth with cover titles in gilt and with beveled edges. Moderate wear to the binding. Binding has some rubbing on the back cover as some light scuff marks and there is a strip of damping along the fore edges of the front and rear covers. There is also a strip of pale plant fiber stuck on the front cover likely from when it was originally bound. Outside edges of the text block are foxed and some of the pages are lightly stuck together at the fore edges but still open easily. A sound copy with clean text. Illustrated throughout with photos of gardens English manor houses dogs hunting Lords and Ladies etc. Three page Index at the front. Inscribed on the title page by the original owner "Dr. G. C. Lippincott U.S.N. / Salem N. Jersey." George C. Lippincott 1850-1951 was a doctor in the U.S. Navy in the 1870s-1880s before he opened his office in Salem. We have several other hardback volumes in this series. <br/> <br/> The Offices of Country Life, George Newes hardcover
1791018460Bath: S. Hazard 1791. Latin text with some Greek; a few of Clayton's notes are in English. Engraved frontispiece of the Agnus Scythicus pp 138 very clean internally the hinge at the frontispiece crackig but no weakness bound in a ater unlettered cloth-backed marbled boards rubbed and chipped at the edges but otherwise sound. RARE. The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone both the plant and sheep died. Underlying the legend is the cotton plant which was unknown in Northern Europe before the Norman conquest of Sicily. The Hunt Library Catalogue - Number 474 - devotes four pages to the earlier printings of this work - "One of the most curious little books in the Collection or even in the demesne of bibliography". This copy has an article bound in at the rear entitled Botany; it has 127 pages is probably late-Victorian and I have not traced its source. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. S. Hazard Hardcover
Z1-R-014-01267General Books LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
1334977798.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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03973College Station Texas: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Collection of 18 bulletins from May 1924 to April 1936 from Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Texas A&M University--Divisions of Entomology Agronomy Agricultural Engineering Farm and Ranch Economics Plant Pathology and Physiology. Bound together in stiff cardboard covers. Withdrawn from a public library; stamping to spine and first bulletin in the collection. Also has the card pocket in the rear. 0. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Paperback
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1821ABC_48479Amsterdam 1821. 8vo. J.C. Sepp & zoon Contemporary red sprinkled paper wrappers with a printed paper title-label on the spine. 2 L 521 1 blank pp. First edition of this extensive work on the cultivation and multiplication of plants and trees accompanied by an introduction which explains the basics of horticulture. The work discusses hundreds of plants in alphabetical order and gives important facts about their growth and development. All mentioned plants were considered suitable for Dutch gardens. The work was very accessible and easy to read for the general public. According to Van Eeden it was so popular that the publisher still received inquiries for it in the 1860s. However since the information in it was no longer up-to-date by this time the work was edited and re-published in 1868 as Hortus Batavus. The present work however is the first edition.With a red ownership stamp "Ex Libris J. Visser Rotterdam" on the front wrapper and the title-page the printed price of the work on the title-page has been corrected by hand. The edges and corners of the wrappers are frayed and the spine is damaged with loss of material at the head and foot. The work is occasionally very slightly foxed and the edges are lightly browned. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Eeden F. W. van Hortus Batavus introduction; Stafleu & Cowan 1626; not in Pritzel. unknown
0282006230.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0365475815.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1332299318.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1932021306London & New York: Ernest Benn Ltd & Charles Scribner's Sons 1932. Folio illustrated with 40 plates pp 44 a little age-toned internally original blue buckram and brown cloth slightly worn the spine age-toned and bit marked. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Ernest Benn Ltd & Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
1925036698NY: The Macmillan Company 1925. Hardcover. Good. 3 volume set. The covers show some edgewear with rubbing and nicks. The bindings are sound. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company 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
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2001014850Portland Oregon U.S.A.: Timber Press in Association with the British Clematis Society 2001. 426pp. Two colour maps b/white line-drawn illustrations plus colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean square. Spine firm bright gilt title there-on. Plain green boards undamaged. Colour illustrated dustjacket has minor soft edge-creasing minimal surface indentations. From the jacket flap: "This long-awaited book is separated into two sections: the first is devoted to the care and cultivation of clematis while the second provides an alphabetical list of more than 550 plants from the acclaimed large-flowered forms to the less familiar shrubby sub-shrubby and herbaceous forms that are beginning to be available. Using everyday language the authors provide plant descriptions that include information on origin habit pruning group flowering period cultural requirements recommended uses in the garden and hardiness. Several useful appendices assist gardeners in using the right plant for the right site and in obtaining reliable plants and seeds. The text is accompanied by more than 650 magnificent photographs making this encylopedia an indispensable reference and guide." Includes Foreword by Mike Brown. Preface by Mary K. Toomey. Glossary Bibliography and Index. Book weight approx. 1.82KG. Customers outside Australia only - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - approx. 28.5cm x 22cm. Timber Press, in Association with the British Clematis Society Hardcover
1837045152London: James Ridgway and Sons Piccadilly 1837. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarto. 428 pages indexed. COLLATES COMPLETE with 48 uncolored plates. Hardcover bound in original green publisher's cloth. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. The corners are a little bumped and there is some pale spotting along the fore edges and top edge of the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Prior owner's 1954 inscription on the front flyleaf of "William Lanier Hunt" INSCRIBED on the title page "From the Author." The text is a little toned but generally clean. There is some offsetting from the plates. Contains 48 uncolored plates. William Lanier Hunt 1906-1996 the 1950s owner was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum. <br/> <br/> James Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly hardcover
1998046177Boca Raton London New York and Washington D.C.: CRC Press 1998. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 666 pages indexed. Yellow and green hardcover. The binding shows some rubbing and wear. There are some nicks or scuffs on the laminate on the front cover. Spine a bit sunned. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Two abrasions on the rear pastedown suggest a removed pocket. Prior owner's signature on the front pastedown. The text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated. <br/> <br/> CRC Press hardcover