Search Results: Agriculture from Dennis Holzman Antiques

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is sound. Green-dyed vellum spine with marbled paper over boards, 1226 pages, "illustrated with upwards of eight hundred engravings on wood by Branson". 16-page Aug. 1825 Gardener's Magazine bound-in at the beginning of the book. Title continues: "and the Cultivation and Economy of the Animal and Vegetable Productions of Agriculture, Including All the Latest Improvements; a General History of Agriculture in all Countries; and a Statistical View of its Present State, with Suggestions for Its Future Progress in the British Isles". Repairs made to front hinge, covers rubbed and stained, corners and spine ends bumped and worn, Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 8 oz. Category: Agriculture; Pictures of this item… Read More

Unstated, n. p, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is sound. Gilt-stamped black leather over boards, a nursery specimen book illustrated with vibrant chromolithographic plates of various apples, pears, cherries, and other fruits. In some places, the previous owner drew little sketches of fruit with pencil on blank pages. Edges, corners, and spine ends worn, head of spine heavily chipped, scattered staining which does affect plates, though they are still quite bright! Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Agriculture; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013489. .

Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in the State of New York, Albany, NY, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper. Brown cloth spine with paper handwritten label, greenish paper over boards, 172 pages, 50 (Appendix), inexplicably contains Contents of the Third Volume of the Transactions which are not included in this volume, some of the topics covered include: Annual Address on the Theory of Agriculture, Remarks on the Species of Curculio Remarkably Destructive to Fruit, Description of a Cave and in Intermittimg Lake Saratoga County New York, Meteorological Journal City of Albany during the Year 1813-14, On the Misnomer of Some of the Forest Trees of the United States, Observations on the Worm Which of Late Has Proved so Destructive to Bees, Observations Additional on the Worm Which of Late Has… Read More