Search Results: Botanical from SequiturBooks

Skyhorse, 2011-01-01. Paperback. Like New. 9x7x0. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Sprague & Son, 1884. Paperback. Acceptable. Bound in publisher's grey wraps. Softcover. Library stamps and markings. Large tears to front wrap (detached). Generally clean. Also included in this book is "Butterflies of Maine".

Creative Homeowner, 2013-08-06. paperback. Good. 8x0x10. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings.

C.M. Saxton & Co, 1856-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo. Original embossed brown cloth. Wear to edges, spotting to boards. Fraying to tail of front joint. Contemporary signature to front flyleaf. Foxing to prelims, title page, up to end of contents page

Paris: Buisson, 1790-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. [Botanical] Two octavo volumes. Full contemporary calf, gilt, raised bands, red and brown leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, page ends washed red. Rubbing, minor chipping to spine. xxiv, 440; xii, 434 pp., 3 folding botanical plates. Offsetting to plates. 1789 Contains Gibelin's translations of the most important articles of the first 75 volumes of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Boston : William White, 1856. Hardcover. Acceptable. Bound in publisher's printed boards. vi, 471 pages ; 25 cm. Dampstaining.

Charles Dilly and J. Phillips, 1787-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Fine modern quarter leather over marbled boards by Bernard Middleton. xxxix, [1], 51 pp, hand-colored engraved frontis of Beta hybrida. Occasional marginal soiling and spotting, minor toning. Frontis cropped. Contemporary signature of Wm. Farquhar, M.D., on title; Kenneth Garth Huston bookplate. <br><br>v Third edition of a translation by John Coakley Lettsom originally published the same year. Lettsom helped to introduce the mangel wurzel in Great Britain and actively promoted its cultivation. "He grew the seed himself and imported a large quantity, which he distributed to farmers and others in Britain as well as in Europe, America, and the West Indies" (ODNB). Henrey 556 (also II, 297-98); Fussell II, p. 130; Perkins 374 (2nd ed) Mangels were used extensively as fodder for livestock. They are mentioned frequently in George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Random House, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Chronicles the change in farming in the United States by key documents and legislation illustrative of the topic and period. <br> xxii, 3652 pages) 25 cm. Contents:V.1. Colonial America : European background ; American Indian agriculture ; Colonial settlement --Virginia ; Colonial settlement --New England ; Colonial settlement --New York ; Colonial settlement --Maryland ; Colonial settlement --Pennsylvania ; Colonial settlement --Georgia ; Development of colonial agriculture --The American Revolution and agriculture --Farming in the new nation, 1783-1840 : George Washington, farmer ; Thomas Jefferson, agrarian ; Land policies ; Changes in farming --The first American agricultural revolution and its setting, 1840-1870 : Land policies ; Education and experimentation ; The Civil War ; Changes in farming --V.2. Changes in farming (continued) : The growth of commercial… Read More

Librairie Georg, Geneve, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Orchidology] Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. 92 pages) illustrations (60 plates). Chromolithographs. Nissen 406a.

WINE AND SPIRIT PUBLICATIONS, 1978-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Light creasing to spine. Clean, unmarked pages. 237 p., ill., 21 cm.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983-10-12. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x7x0. Hardcover and dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Foxing to edge. Gift inscription to title page, otherwise unmarked pages. 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. <br><br> Provides illustrated information on seventeen different natural habitats, telling what to look for in each, and offers instructions for a variety of home laboratory techniques, from building a terrarium to breeding butterflies.

DK ADULT, 1997-09-01. Hardcover. Like New. 9x2x11. Hardcover and dust jacket. Light wear. Tears to dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

J. Breck, Boston, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Wear to edges of spine. Spotting. xii, 179 page. "The second really good book on flowers was The American flower garden companion, by Edward Sayers, published in 1838. It was for the time and the subject fairly large, containing 179 pages and a preface of 12 pages. It was sponsored by two of the leading seed houses of the time, those of G. C. Thorburn and Joseph Breck & Co. A second edition appeared in 1839, and a larger, revised edition in 1846." - Hedrick, History of horticulture in America, p. 484.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, 1956. Paperback. Very Good. 6 volume set. Includes original compilation of the American Orchid society awards and 5 supplemental volumes (supplements numbered II, III, IV, V, VI). Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear. 1274 pages.

[American Orchid Society], [West Palm Beach, Fla], 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [Orchidology] Massive 95 volume set, bound in 111 volumes. 70 hardcover volumes and 32 individual issues in wrappers. An uninterrupted run from Vol. 1, No. 1 to Vol. 71, no. 12. First 8 volumes bound in publisher's wrappers and in slip case. Volumes 40, 42, 51 through 55, 57, 59, 60 through 64, 66 and 67 bound in 2 volumes. Numerous illustrations Bound in library cloth Vol. 1, no.1 with wrappers detached and creased. The journal of the American Orchid Society, seldom seen in such long runs. In 1996 the named changed from "American Orchid Society Bulletin" to "Orchids". <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

The Easton Press, 2002. Hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. [Fine binding] 720 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Simply the definitive full-color reference to the horticulture of North America, AHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers contains more than 8,000 plant references, 4,250 photographs, and practical advice on everything from cultivation and pests to plant selection and identification. Bookplate. <br> Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. For more than 30 years, the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound, profusely gilt classic leather bindings. 0789489937

Georgetown, D.C. : Joseph Milligan, 1818. 2nd. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Early American Vegetable gardening - Includes an Interesting Section on Virginia Wine Making not present in the earlier edition] Bound in contemporary leather. Old notes on end pages. Some tanning, darkening, old dampstaining. 347 pages. Second edition, expanded from the 1804 edition with the inclusion of a "Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia" (John Randolph) and "a Few Hints for the Cultivation of Native Vines, and Directions for Making Domestic Wines." Includes recipes for currant wine, blackberry wine, "champagne wine of gooseberries," and tomato ketchup. A recipe for balsamic vinegar is declared "excellent in spasms and suffocations; in rubbing the hands and temple with it you may venture into foul air." Sabin 26621 (lists only the third edition); Shaw-Shoemaker 44127; not in the culinary bibliographies.

C.M. Saxton, 1853-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Original leather backed cloth boards, gilt spine. Rubbing wear, some chipping to spine leather. Marginal dampstaining, foxing, minor toning.

New York : C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co. ; San Francisco : H.H. Bancroft & Co, 1860-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Octavo. Original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt spine. Fading to spine gilt, wear to boards. Shaken, foxing. Ag Library markings.

Pantheon Books, 1996-01-01. Paperback. Like New. 7x0x10. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Edges slightly sunned. Clean, unmarked pages.