Category: Fruit & Vegetables

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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THE CIDER FACTORY - Plant and Layout

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Leonard Hill Limited : 1953

Seller ID: 006374

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xiv, 110, endpapers very slightly foxed otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly worn and marked. VERY SCARCE
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The Vegetable Garden Displayed

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Horticultural Society and Geoffrey Bles : 1964

Seller ID: 018517

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Revised edition. Very well illustrated, large octavo, pp 128, slightly age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn and age-toned dustwrapper. [A gardening classic, and very scarce in this hardback format.]
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Tropical Fruit Recipes - rare and exotic fruit

Price: £20.00

Publisher: South Miami, Rare Fruit Council International Inc. : 1991

Seller ID: 018965

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing of this revised edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp 180, very clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition with only a slight crease at the lower corner.
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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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Fruit Growing - Modern Cultural Methods

By: Bagenal, N.B. (ed)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Ward Lock & Co Ltd : 1945

Seller ID: 014872

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Revised editoon, 1945. Illustrated with sepia photographic illustrations and eight colour plates, thick octavo, pp 416, slightly age-toned, otherwise very clean and sound internally, green cloth very slightly worn and marked, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and rather worn and fryed, with pieces lacking from the head and tail of the spine and very small pieces from the corners.
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The Pruning Book: a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions

By: Bailey, L.H.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1899

Seller ID: 013566

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition. Small squat octavo, pp x, 545 (+ publisher's catalogue), slightly used internally and very slightly weak, a small minor pressure-mark from the front endpaper through to page 17/18, endpapers a little creased, cloth slightly worn and rubbed, binding leaning slightly. [Philosophy of pruning. The fruit bud. The healing of wounds, Specific modes of training. American grape training.]. The early editions are extremely scarce.
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Jeff Ball's 60-Minute Vegetable Garden - just one hour a week for the most productive vegetable garden possible

By: Ball, Jeff

Price: £4.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books - Macmillan : 1992

Seller ID: 009589

ISBN-13: 9780020303763

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xii, 228, paperback, a very good copy. SCARCE.
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Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians

By: Barrows, David Prescott

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, Malki Museum Press : 1977

Seller ID: 018511

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. [Originally published 1900]. Small ctavo, not illustrated, pp liv, 82, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly rubbed and with slight fade. [Classics in Californian Anthropology 1. Reprinted, including a Cahuilla bibliography and introductory essays.]
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HomeMade Wines, Syrups and Cordials

By: Beech, F.W, (editor),(foreword by Sir Stephen Tallents)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, National Federation of Women's Institutes : 1957

Seller ID: 018868

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Revised edition, decorated with small line drawings, octavo, pp x, 126, slightly used internally, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and rubbed. [Postage will be rduced]
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Fruit - an Illustrated History

By: Blackburne-Maze, Peter (Blackburn)

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Toronto, Firefly Books : 2003

Seller ID: 002370

ISBN-13: 9781552977804

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 335, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A stunning historical account, charting the development of a vast range of species, describing their history and cultivation as well as their place in popular culture from ancient times to the present. The illustrations are all from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society.] Very heavy - extra postage will be required.
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Apple Pollination Studies in the Annapolis Valley, N.S., Canada

By: Brittain, W.H.(ed)

Price: £10.50

Publisher: Ottawa, Department of Agriculture, Dominion of Canada : 1933

Seller ID: 005083

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 198, paperback, covers very marked and grubby, (also affecting the last two pages), a bit used generally.
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The Fruit Garden

By: Bunyard, George & Thomas, Owen

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, Country Life : 1904

Seller ID: 014603

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with line drawings and photographic plates, small thick quarto, pp xiv, 507, fore-edge foxed, scattered foxing throughout, heavier on some pages, the hinge at the title page is a little cracked, and similarly at the last page of the index, otherwise clean and sound internally, blue cloth very slightly worn and marked. [One of the seminal works on the subject, and overall a much better than average copy.]
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The Citrus Industries of North Africa [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Burke, J. Henry

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Washington, U.S. Department of Agriculture : 1952

Seller ID: 009311

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Small quarto, one plate, pp (4), 152, typed and stencilled, paperback, stapled, slightly aged and worn. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Lao...
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Fruit Growing Outdoors

By: Bush, Raymond

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1946

Seller ID: 010318

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

New and enlarged edition. Illustrated, pp 518, some foxing to the front endpaper, neat owner's name and address on front endpaper, slightly worn throughout.
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The Blue Book of Gardening Catalogue 1932

By: Carters Tested Seeds

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Raynes Park, London, Carters Tested Seeds : 1932

Seller ID: 018645

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated, octavo, pp 402, very slightly age-toned, blue boards with gilt lettering, the spine a bit worn and beginniung to split at the joints but still firm. [A very comprehensive listing of flowers and vegetable seeds, with a few sundries.]
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Plagas y Enfermedades del la Vid

By: Castro, Aurelio Ruiz

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Madrid, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agronomicas : 1965

Seller ID: 019437

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Well illustrated with black and white photographs, line drawings and a few colour plates, large very thick octavo, ppxxiv, 757, corners a little bruised, a little used throughout, a duplicate from East Malling Research Institute, with their stamp on the front endpaper and a labelon the spine, paperback, the covers a bit worn and creased. [A heavy book - extra postage may be required.]
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The Hop and Its Constituents: A Monograph on the Hop Plant.

By: Chapman, Alfred C.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, The Brewing Trade Review : 1905

Seller ID: 017040

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates, octavo, pp (4), 99, slightly used internally, green cloth, very slightly worn, the fore-edge of both covers a little stained. A red stamp on the front endpaper shows that this was a second world war gift of the British Red Cross Society; a further stamp shows that it ended up at Oflag VI-B, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizerlager), 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of the village of Dussel (now part of Warburg) in northwestern Germany. The camp was the setting for two remarkable escape attempts. Also with the pencil signatur...
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Practical Fruit Culture - a treatise on planting, growing, storage etc, of hardy fruits for market and private growers

By: Cheal, Joseph

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, George Bell and Sons : 1898

Seller ID: 013364

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Third printing, 1898. A few illustrations, 12mo, pp x, 194, a little used and marked throughout, a little weak internally, cloth marked and rubbed, slightly wrinkled and a bit worn. SCARCE. [ Joseph Cheal, a Quaker, was a nurseryman, gardener and landscape designer active in the late-19th and early- to mid-20th century. He is perhaps best remembered for his work carried out as part of Joseph Cheal & Son gardeners, who were a partnership of designers active during this period. Together with his brother Alexander and John Cheal (born 1800, died 1896), Cheal worked at the Lowfield Nurseries at C...
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The Leguminosae of Taiwan, for Pasture and Soil Improvement [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Ching-Chang Chuang & Chia Huang

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Taipei, Department of Botany, National Taiwan University : 1965

Seller ID: 008664

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with 162 line drawings, large 8vo, pp (iv), 286, paperback, slightly worn, spine repaired and with slight tape marks, a withdrawn duplicate from the library of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with stamps on the upper cover and verso of the title page, and a bookplate. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Fo...
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