Search Results: Agriculture, Horticulture, Gardening from Natural History Books

Albany, New York: C. Van Benthuysen, 1849. First edition.. Light foxing to the appendix text pages and to the first few uncolored plates, the hand-colored plates are bright and clean, the brown cloth binding is bright and clean, overall a near fine copy.. Pp. viii, 343, 50 (appendix), text-figures, 27 full page plates (15 are hand-colored), 14 full page graphs. Elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-decorated cloth with gilt spine illustration of wheat and corn, 4to. This volume contains excellent hand-color plates of vegetables and cereals grown in 19th century New York. This is volume two of the Agriculture of New York. Signature of Charles Jeffery Smith on the front endpaper dated 1879. No other ownership marks.

Albany, New York: C. Van Benthuysen, 1849. First edition.. Endpapers are browned, slight repair to cloth on the spine, the brown cloth binding is bright and clean, the hand-colored plates are bright and clean; a near fine copy.. Pp. viii, 343, 50 (appendix), text-figures, 27 full page plates (15 are hand-colored), 14 full page graphs. Elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-decorated cloth with gilt spine illustration of wheat and corn, 4to. This volume contains excellent hand-color plates of vegetables and cereals grown in 19th century New York. This is volume two of the Agriculture of New York. No other ownership marks.

Albany, New York: C. Van Benthuysen, 1851. First edition.. Light foxing to some pages in the text volume, the hand-colored plates shows some foxing and light discoloration in the halo outlines around some fruits, the brown cloth bindings are bright and clean, overall a very good copy.. (First volume, text): Pp. viii, 340; numerous numbered text-figures (outline drawings of fruit); (Second volume, plates): Pp. viii, 81 full-page hand-colored plates of fruits. Elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-decorated cloth with gilt spine illustration of wheat and corn, 4to. This two volume set covers the fruits grown in 19th century New York. There are excellent hand-color plates of fruits. This is volume three of the Agriculture of New York published in two volumes (text + plates). No ownership marks.

State College, PA: The Centre County Historical Society, 1994. Reprint. Fine (new) copy.. Pp. 134, (1, ad), numerous text-figures and line drawings. Ornately blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, 12mo.

Lyon: chez Robert et Gauthier, 1797. First edition. . The original tree calf is very attractive and shows few signs of use, in both volumes the endpapers are a bit browned, there are some light marginal dampstains to the front section and rear section of volume 2 only affecting the margins of the last two plates. These damp marks are very faint and do affect the text or contents of the plates; a bright very good copy.. Pp. (vi), 414, (2), 9 folding engraved plates; (iv), 404, 5 folding and engraved plates. Contemporary full tree calf with red morocco title label, 8vo. An early view of agriculture in France and southern Europe - contains treatises on the care of tree wounds, culture of the orange, the cauliflower, the cardoon of Spain, melons, strawberries, culture of the vine and grapes, and the propagating of plants. From the library of Victor du Pont with his bookplate at the beginning of each volume. Laid in at the front of volume one is an eight-page pamphlet by du Pont entitled "Lettre… Read More

Lucknow, UP: Superintendent, Government Printing Office, 1956.. A clean, very good copy in a mostly complete but slightly soiled and stained dust jacket.. Pp. (viii), 144, vi, 72 full page photo-plates on clay-coated paper - 28 are in color, 5 full page figures. Cloth, DJ, lg 8vo. A thorough review of the mangoes grown in India.

Kyoto: Fauna and Flora Research Society, Kyoto University, 1956. First edition.. Small crack to inner front joint professionally repaired, light edge-wear to cloth; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. x, iii, (i), 529, vii, vii (index); color frontispiece, 29 black-and-white photo-plates, 9 full page plates (line-drawings), some text-figures. Publisher's original turquoise-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, sm 4to. This is volume 2 of a 3 volume set that presents the Scientific Results of the Japan Expeditions to Nepal Himalaya in 1952-1953. Each volume was on a different subject. In 1951 Nepal opened its borders to scientific exploration. This Japanese expedition was one of several expeditions to explore Nepal in the early 1950s. Signature of E. W. Bellis on the front endpaper.