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A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; by Forsyth, William

A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees;

by Forsyth, William

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hardback. Very Good. ... To which are added An Introduction and notes, adapting the rules of the treatise to the Climates and Seasons of the United States of America. Illustrated with 13 (mostly folding) plates. Albany (D & S Whiting) 1803. This edition has an added 8pp letter from Peter W. Yates, commenting on the treatise. Some foxing, mainly of plates, but a very good copy, newly rebound in cloth-backed boards, with paper spine label.

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London: John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Paternoster Row. & C Loddiges & Sons, Hackney, 1824 A scarce complete volume of Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, with 100 hand coloured plates engraved by George Cooke. Conrad Loddiges founded a plant nursery business in Hackney and the family became famous for exotic and rare plants. The mauve rhododendron that has become common in Great Britain today was imported by Conrad Loddiges. The Botanical Cabinet showcases the rare plants that they imported and grew. This volume is volume X, dated 1824. In contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. Top page edges gilt. The spine has gilt compartments and elaborate gilt tooling. There are title and volume labels. Internally there is a decorative title page and then a series of plates, each followed by a brief description on a separate page. There are 100 plates of which 9 are folding. There is an index at the rear. The binding is in very… Read More
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London: John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Paternoster Row. & C Loddiges & Sons, Hackney, 1824 A scarce complete volume of Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, with 100 hand coloured plates engraved by George Cooke. Conrad Loddiges founded a plant nursery business in Hackney and the family became famous for exotic and rare plants. The mauve rhododendron that has become common in Great Britain today was imported by Conrad Loddiges. The Botanical Cabinet showcases the rare plants that they imported and grew. This volume is volume X, dated 1824. In contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. Top page edges gilt. The spine has gilt compartments and elaborate gilt tooling. There are title and volume labels. Internally there is a decorative title page and then a series of plates, each followed by a brief description on a separate page. There are 100 plates of which 9 are folding. There is an index at the rear. The binding is in very… Read More
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The Small Fruits of New York: Report of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year Ending June 30, 1925

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A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees

by William Forsyth

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A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees ...: to Which Is Added, a New and Improved Edition of "Observations on the Diseases, Defects and Injuries of All Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees"

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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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The Carrot Seed

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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms:  Both Native  and Introduced, Found...

A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region

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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands,...
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France

by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)

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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More
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The Last Days of Mankind A Tragedy in Five Acts

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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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HELVELLA MITZA [Elfin Saddle Mushroom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 556) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten...
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten [provenance: Wilhelm Nahlop, head gardener of Schloss Britz]

by Stein, Berthold

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Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.
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