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The Family Kitchen Gardener; Containing the Plain and Accurate Descriptions of All the Different Species and Varieties of Culinary Vegetables
by Buist, Robert
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: C. M. Saxton, J. C. Riker, 1852. Title page dated 1852. Guide to growing vegetables and fruits for culinary and medicinal use, illustrated with 25 small engravings. Worn copy in brown cloth, 216 pages plus numerous publisher's ads. Covers heavily rubbed and spotted with fraying to corners and spine ends, hinges good, text block sound, pages age-toned and uniformly foxed but clean, advertising pages more heavily foxed, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035234
- Title
- The Family Kitchen Gardener; Containing the Plain and Accurate Descriptions of All the Different Species and Varieties of Culinary Vegetables
- Author
- Buist, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- C. M. Saxton, J. C. Riker
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1852
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- AMERICAN COOKING VEGETABLES FRUITS HOME GARDEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food, Wine and Home Entertainment; Science, Medicine & Nature;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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