Random gleanings natures fields von pycraft (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1928. First Edition. 209 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, frontispiece detached but still present. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. xiv, 210pp, 8pp publisher's advertisements; various black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth-covered boards; blind-embossed titles on front, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Slightly sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends; quite cocked. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers starting to tan, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, volume a little loose, pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat and clean. …

Hardcover. 19cm, xiv, 209,8,p., plates and illustrations, index, brick brown cloth, gilt titles, a fine copy. (sgc).

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original russet brown cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xiv] 210 [viii] printed pages of text with 90 monochrome illustrations throughout. Ink ownership stamp and name to the front free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZOOLOGY (Animal Biology).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Interesting cloth collection on a variety of agricultural subjects, three volumes being illustrated editions. A collection of eight individual works on the topics of nature, agriculture and farming. Includes one first edition.Comprised of:(1854) Chemistry Applied to Agriculture by John Anthony Chaptal;(1868) Hand-Book of Farm Labour by John Chalmers Morton*;(1870) Successful Farming by the Rev. W. Holt Beever;(1912) The Soil by A. D. Hall;(1912) Fertilisers and Manures by A. D. Hall;(1919) Elements of Agriculture by W. Fream, ed. by J. R. Ainsworth-Davis;(1928) Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields by W. P. Pycraft - first edition.*Two volumes bound in one, with (1868) The Chemistry of Food by Charles A. Cameron.All bound in publisher's original cloth. Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields includes the gilt stamp of King Edward's School, Birmingham, as well as the prize bookplate, dated 1927-28. Hand-Book of Farm Labour features the inscription of agricultural author, J. P. Sheldon.The Soil is illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Fertilisers and Manures features seven plates. Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields features forty plates, including the frontispiece. Collated, complete. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Inscription of Professor J. P. Sheldon to front free endpaper of Hand-Book of Farm Labour. Inscriptions to both endpapers, stretching across title page, to Successful Farming. Stamp of The White House Country Life Museum to front paste down of Elements of Agriculture. King Edward's School, Birmingham, prize bookplate to front paste down of Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields, dated 1927-28. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks to each volume. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Fertilisers and Manures feature more distinctive marks to the front boards. Internally, firmly bound, with the exception of Chemistry Applied to Agriculture, which is marginally more delicate. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Elements of Agriculture include scattered pencil annotations. All volumes generally bright and clean with spotting heavier to first and last few pages. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture suffering from a noticeable tide mark throughout. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…