Category: Agriculture

Agricultural Concerns of the Monte dei Paschi of Siena

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Monte dei Paschi of Siena

Seller ID: 018148

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, including three folding plates, tall quarto, not paginated (c.100 pages), very slightly age-toned internally, brown boards, embossed title on upper cover, slightly worn, the lower cover a little faded, a slight tear to the head of the front joint, otherwise a good copy. SCARCE.
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Gleanings from Books on Agriculture and Gardening [Anthony Huxley's copy]

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Dublin & Edinburgh, Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood : 1802

Seller ID: 017846

Binding: Boards

Condition: Fair

Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates (with stains, and virtually detached), pp 432, vii, untrimmed and unpressed, the first few pages rather weak, a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages, otherwise clean internally though rather weak, original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and erroneously entered 1828. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front endpaper which also contains a contemporary signature. The...
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Gleanings from Books on Agriculture and Gardening [Anthony Huxley's copy]

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, Dublin & Edinburgh, Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood : 1802

Seller ID: 019028

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates a little browned and marked, pp 432, vii, slightly used throughout, the blank page following the front endpaper is creased and lacking a corner, bound in a later brown cloth. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.]
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Indian Tobacco - A Monograph

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Madras, Indian Central Tobacco Committee : 1960

Seller ID: 019671

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxiv, 413, (i), slightly used and weak internally, one manuscript correction in ink, blue cloth a little worn, un un-lettered spine, a duplicate from East Malling Research Station with a stamp on front endpaper and verso of title page, a shelf number on the spine, traces of labels removed from endpapers. RARE.
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Perspectives in World Agriculture

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Farnham Royal, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux : 1980

Seller ID: 004708

ISBN-13: 9780851984582

Small quarto, pp xviii, 532, a good copy in dustwrapper. [A detailed survey - grassland research, helmithology, veterinary medicine, animal nutrition, soils science, nematology, apiculture, plant pathology, weed science, forestry, horticulture, annual field crops, taxonomy of cultivated plants etc. Authors include J.G. Hawkes, G.W. Ivens, Eva Crane etc.]
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Report on a Land Capability Survey of Part of Strath-Kildonan, Scotland

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Boreham Wood, Hunting Technical Services : 1967

Seller ID: 008622

Binding: Ringbound paperback

Condition: Good

Quarto, pp viii, 159, several folding charts, nthree large folding maps in rear pocket, paperback, ringbound. A very detailed report. [Extra postage may be necessary.]
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Scottish Plant Breeding Station Annual Report 1955 - Opening of Pentlandfield

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Roslin, : 1955

Seller ID: 014609

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A colour frontispiece and several black and white plates, small slim octavo, pp 36, paperback, a very good clean copy. [Includes a history of the previous establishment at Craigs House {1921-1954}, and the prospects for the station at Pentlandfield.] Postage will be reduced.
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Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape

By: Aalen, F.H.A. & Kevin Whelan & Matthew Stout (editors

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1997

Seller ID: 019655

ISBN-13: 9780802042941

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (12), 352, very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and slightly wrinkled round the edges. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed]
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Improving Vegetatively Propagated Crops

By: Abbott, A.J. & Atkin, R.K. (editors)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Academic Press : 1987

Seller ID: 010917

ISBN-13: 9780120414109

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, pp xviii, 416, purple cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, a very good copy. [From the library of professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the front endpaper.]
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Common Weeds of the West Indies

By: ADAMS, C.D., KASASIAN, L. & SEEYAVE, J.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: (Trinidad), University of The West Indies : 1970

Seller ID: 005095

Common Weeds of the West Indies. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp (2), ii, 139, slightly worn, simple cloth-backed boards, lettered in ink on the spine and in silver printing on the upper cover, library number to front endpaper, front hinge cracked and slightly weak, first blamk becoming loose. VERY SCARCE. Trinidad 1968 (corrected to 1970 on errata slip). It is unclear if this is the original binding or not.
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Plant Pests

By: Alford, David V.

Price: £36.50

Publisher: London, Collins : 2011

Seller ID: 018123

ISBN-13: 9780007338498

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

First edition. NEW. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 500; the dustwrapper is not faded and is not price-clipped, STILL ENCLOSED IN THE PUBLISHER'S CELLOPHANE. [Ever since man first cultivated plants and grew crops, insects, mites and other creatures have risen to prominence as pests, but it is only throughout the last two centuries that we have come to study them in detail. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, David V. Alford provides a fascinating account of the natural history of the insects and mites that inhabit our farms and gardens, and feed on our cultivated plants. Coverage of pe...
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Image for Dictionary of Agriculture - Worterbuch der Landwirtschaft. German-English, English-German. For the use of farmers, gardeners, breeders and seed growers, bee-keepers, fishermen, veterinary surgeons, agricultural colleges & research institutes.

Dictionary of Agriculture - Worterbuch der Landwirtschaft. German-English, English-German. For the use of farmers, gardeners, breeders and seed growers, bee-keepers, fishermen, veterinary surgeons, agricultural colleges & research institutes.

By: Bading, H.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Claasen & Goverts, Park-Verlag : 1947

Seller ID: 018171

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Small octavo, pp 156, very age-toned, a small owner's stamp and bookshop label on the front endpaper, otherwise just a little used internally, paperback, covers a little worn and chipped.
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A Legacy of Change: Historic Human Impact on Vegetation of the Arizona Borderlands

By: Bahre, C.J.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Tucson, The University of Arizona Press : 1991

Seller ID: 008238

ISBN-13: 9780816512041

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations and maps, large 8vo, pp xviii, 231, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper.
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My Great Oak Tree and other poems

By: Bailey, Liberty Hyde

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cornell University, Editors of Chronica Botanica : 1952

Seller ID: 018535

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Slender octavo, pp 12, (i), clean internally, paperback, the covers very slightly marked and worn. Presumably issued in very small numbers ? I have not been able to identify the artist of the woodcut on the cover. [A Keepsake, issued by the Editors of Chronica Botanica, for the members of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, attending the Cornell University Meetings.]
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Prehistoric Farming in Europe

By: Barker, Graeme

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1985

Seller ID: 011018

ISBN-13: 9780521269698

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xviii, 327, extremely clean and sound internally, paperback, the slightest signs of use to the covers, but really a very good copy, almost as new.
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Seed Preservation and Longevity

By: Barton, Lela V.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Leonard Hill Books : 1961

Seller ID: 012761

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xviii, 216, very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, rather age-toned with closed tears, now protected in a removable plastic film. From the library of the Cambridge botanist David Coombe, with his signature on the front endpaper. [Longevity of vegetable and flower seeds, field and other economically important crops, tree seeds.factors affecting longevity, methods of testing, causes of deterioration etc.]
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Image for Del Mal del Segno (translated by P.J. Yarrow). On the Mark Disease, Calcinaccio or Muscadine, a disease that affects silk worms and on the means of freeing therefrom even the most devastated breeding establishments

Del Mal del Segno (translated by P.J. Yarrow). On the Mark Disease, Calcinaccio or Muscadine, a disease that affects silk worms and on the means of freeing therefrom even the most devastated breeding establishments

By: Bassi, Agostino

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Ithaca, American Phytopathological Society : 1958

Seller ID: 019604

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Originally published in Lodi, Italy, 1835. Portrait frontispiece, slim octavo, pp xvi, 50, original black cloth, a very good copy. {Phytopathological Classics 10}. [ Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi (1773 - 1856), was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. In 1844, he stated the idea that not only an...
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Vegetationsökologische Grundlagen der Viehwirtschaft in den Uberschwemmungs-savannen des Rio Yacuma (Departamento Beni, Bolivien).

By: Beck, Stephan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Vaduz, J. Cramer : 1983

Seller ID: 012289

ISBN: 3768213704

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, small octavo, pp (12), 186, (28), corners very slightly bumped, errata leaf tipped in to verso of title page, papeback, covers slightly creased otherwise a very good clean copy. [Dissertationes Botanicae Band 80]
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Image for Die Geschichte der Kulturlandschaft und des Ackerbaus in der Siedlungskammer Flogeln, Niedersachsen, seit der Jungsteinzeit :Probleme der Kustenforschung Im Sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Band 21

Die Geschichte der Kulturlandschaft und des Ackerbaus in der Siedlungskammer Flogeln, Niedersachsen, seit der Jungsteinzeit :Probleme der Kustenforschung Im Sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Band 21

By: Behre, Karl-Ernst & Kucan, Dusanka

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Isensee, Oldenburg : 1994

Seller ID: 010765

ISBN-13: 9783895982545

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

German text. Illustrated, many folding charts, small folio, pp 227, green cloth, a slight blemish on the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy throughout. Presenation copy to Dr Peter Moore, signed by both authors. [The history of the cultural landscape and agriculture in Flogeln, Lower Saxony, since the Neolithic period.] A heavy book - extra postage may be required.
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Observations Botanical and Physiological on the Potato Murrain. Together with Selections from Berkeley's Vegetable Pathology [Sir John Burnett's copy]

By: Berkeley, M.J.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan, American Phytopathological Society : 1948

Seller ID: 019071

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

{Originally published 1846.} Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and five plates, octavo, pp 108, exceptionally clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. [Phytopathological Classics Number 8. Sir John Burnett's copy, with his signature on the upper cover.]
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