Meader james (9 Ergebnisse)

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. 32pp. Illustrated from photographs. Wrappers foxed, very good.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

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dj. Reprint (originally published 1937). Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-281,[1]pp; illus. Very slight spine lean, with light shelf-wear; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.50), spine-tanned, with modest shelf-wear; Very Good. Historical novel for younger readers, set in 19th-century New Hampshire. [88257].…

TITLE CONTINUED: as likewise in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, A Catalogue of Kitchen Garden Plants and Herbs, with the parts made Use of in COOKERY; Fruit Trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted Flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbaceous flower Plants, Herbs for Distilling and Medicine, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens, with great Variety of curious Greenhouse and Stove Plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in Works of this Kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, by James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield. FIRST EDITION 1771, 2 LEAVES MISSING FROM PRELIMS, pages 3-6, now replaced with facsimiles. 8vo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, 13 engraved illustrations, 1 folding, pages: 8, 1-530 plus 1 advert leaf, bound in quarter modern calf, gilt lettered green label, gilt rules and gilt name and date to spine, marbled boards, new black endpapers. First free endpaper soiled with old ink names and text, page 530 and last blank with old ink name and date 1776, pale damp stain affecting top and bottom margins, just running into text of about 60 pages, 2 leaves facing each other have closed tear at lower part neatly repaired, no loss to text, small ink splash to 1 index page, all text legible, small ink spots affect some pages at end, a few other minor spots or stains, otherwise a good copy. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, Volume 3, page 60, No. 846; ESTC T127674, 5 copies listed in UK libraries and 5 in USA , 7 copies listed in Library Hub Discover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…