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Poor. No dust jacket. xiii, 136 + adv p. Includes illustrations. Brown publisher's cloth boards heavily worn, significant damage to spine, soil and stain on exterior and heavy stains blotting interior, poor condition overall but intact and complete with readable text. Front cover gilt pear remains bright. A few illus. of tools and cuttings salvageable, one illlus page torn.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Practically like new. Slight bumping on one bottom spine corner
Good. No dust jacket. 183 p. Ex library, with bookplate of the Scientific Library of the United States Patent Office, 1832 edition rebound in a patent office binding, stamp on last free end page shows rebound in 1916; gilt on spine of binding includes a mark of the patent office, along with the short title, author's last name, and London 1832 date. Patent office library designations on title page. There are no plates or illlustrations. Binding rubbed and somewhat soiled. Pages are foxed at ...
Edition: Reprint, hardcover in slipcase, published as corporate Christmas
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Westvaco Corp.
Date published: 1976
Description: Fine. Published as reprint in slipcase which is illustrated with farm tools motif. A nice gift edition in a 1976 reprint edition in flawless condition. Not a rare book, but a pretty copy of an important piece of literature. Book is in plain green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, all fine condition. Unmarked. No wear and tear. Read More
Description: True Williams drawings; Fred Trost, phot. Very good. No dust jacket. Well preserved, tight, strong, frontispiece intact. Original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth, cover includes map image denoting "Lake Glazier" and other headwaters Read More
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date published: 1871
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature in red on end paper and top of title page. Otherwise many very good attributes. 234 p. The Apple Culturist. A complete treatise for te practical pomologist. To aid in propagating the apple, and cutltivating and managing orchards. Etc. By Sereno Edwards Todd, a classic which presents well on a collector's shelf because of the bright, gilt, cover. In original gold stamped green cloth. clean and tight with modest bumping at top and bottom of spine. ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hakluyt Society, London, England
Date published: 1880
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Missing maps. 2 volume set. 551 p. The Natural And Moral History Of The Indies. Reprinted From The English Translated Edition Of Edward Grimston, 1604. And Edited, With Notes And And Introduction, By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S. Vol. II The Moral History (Books V, VI, And VII). Works Issued By The Hakluyt Society Map Of Peru To Illustrate The Travels Of Cieza De Leon, In 1532-50; The Royal Commentaries Of Garcilasso De La Vega (1609); And The Natural And Moral ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. XLII, London, England
Date published: 1916
Description: Fair in poor dust jacket. Very tattered blue cloth binding as sold by Wm. Wesley & Son, London, bound by Fox, London. 47-114, 324-348 p. Internal text is good, clean, intact. Proceedings, issued in 1916 (part 1) and 1917 (part 2 & 3)--this copy appears to comprise parts 1 & 2, pages as noted above 47-114, 324-348 These excerpts were bound in cloth which is badly damaged esp. along spine. Internally sound and of historical and scientific interest, worth rebinding. No dustjacket; binding poor, ... Read More
Edition: Second edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, London
Date published: 1854
Description: Good. No dust jacket. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Vol V, First volume of plates only. Second edition. [2], viii, 104, [3]pp including 104 color plates, 3 of which are fold-out. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth. Gilt lettering and raised bands on spine. Sound binding. Covers faded and show shelf and edge wear. Corners and spine ends bumped. Cloth split along upper front joint for 1In. Underlying binding intact. Worm damage to upper front corner of cover and front matter 1 in x1in. Single 3/16 in ... Read More
Edition: Revised edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Date published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780460045759ISBN:046004575X
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Half inch tear at fold of dust jacket, lower front corner. Otherwise fine condition throughout. 397 p. Audience: General/trade. An important and authoritative book by a pre-eminent gardening scholar. This belongs in every serious gardening collection. Almost brand new condition, British imprint is not easy to find. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies / Hunt Inst. Bot. Documentation, Detroit, Omnigraphics Inc
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780906795811ISBN:0906795818
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. very slight edge wear in form of a tiny tear top of spine on dust jacket, otherwise as if news. 450 pages, textbook size From two highly accomplished bibliographers, the first comprehensive listing of primary instructional, or "how to draw" booiks, non scientific "pattern" books, and other bibliographical corpus on natural history illustration. Read More
