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E. I. DU PONT, BOTANISTE. THE BEGINNING OF A TRADITION.
Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press. 1972. 140 pp. Illustrated. Hardcover w/ dust jacket. Internally fine copy. Dust jacket lightly sun-faded at the spine and around the top edge. Also shows some minor wear. Book itself is lightly shelf worn but otherwise a very good copy. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings.
$10.00
GENERIC NAMES OF ORCHIDS. Their Origin and Meaning.
Illus. Hard bound. With dust jacket. 1st. ed. Book in very good to fine, clean condition. Dust jacket frated at edges and lightly foxed. S002.
$37.50
NORRISTONE ART.
Rochester:Norristone Studio. (nd). 15pp. Includes 24 photographs, tipped in. Oblong. Wraps. Covers show some soiling and toning, with some light silverfish damage to small areas of the front cover, towards the edges. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, a very good copy.
$25.00
THE GENUS ECHINOCEREUS.
Portland:Timber Press. (1985). 160pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some very minor wear to the edges with lighht soiling. Otherwise in very good, near fine condition. Book itself shows only some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$25.00
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES; WITH DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF THE MOST VALUABLE FRUITS FOR GENERAL CULTIVATION; ADAPTED TO THE INTERIOR OF NEW ENGLAND
Worcester:Erastus N. Tucker. 1849. 1st edition. 256pp. Hardcover. Boards soiled and shelfworn with edges worn to boards in places, edge points bumped, and spine strip chipped in places, especially at bottom and top edges. End-pages, front and rear are heavily foxed with some illegable penciled notes to inside front and rear board. A previous owners name is stamped to 1st and 2nd free end-page. Pages have darkened within text blocks, and there is some light foxing scattered throughout. The binding is tight with front hinge cracked at title page, rear intact. A good solid copy.
$125.00
DR. ALEXANDER GARDEN OF CHARLES TOWN
Chapel Hill:The University of NOrth Carolina Press. (1969). xv+379pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition, inside and out. The dust jacket is lightly shelfworn along top edges, but still in very good condition. *"Alexander Garden, physician and naturalist of the colonial period, was one of the few outstanding scientists in America during the eighteenth century. This is the first complete study of his life and work."...dj
$25.00
THE COMMUTER'S GARDEN RECORD
New York:H. M. Caldwell Co. (1907). 1st edition. No pagination. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Decorated boards clean with just some light soiling which corresponds to chips on dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. Internally, decorated end-pages clean with a previous owners name neatly posted in Ex-Libris square on inside front board. Meant to be used as a record of planting, but never used. Only marks are the name on inside front board. With lovely illustrations throughout on heavy cardstock pages. The dust jacket is still in one piece, but soiled and heavily worn, with chips and tears to edges and folds.
$195.00
THE GREEN-HOUSE AS A WINTER GARDEN: A Manual For the Amateur. With a List of Suitable Plants and Their Mode of Culture
With a Preface by Wm. Cullen Bryant. New York:G. P. Putnam & Sons. 1870. 1st edition. 92pp. Illustrated. Green boards lightly soiled with wear to spine ends and edge points. Internally, age toning (foxing) to end-pages but otherwise pages clean. No previous owners marks or signatures.
$45.00
THREE LITTLE SPADES
New York:Harper and Brothers, Publishers. 1868. 268pp + 4(2)adds. Hardcover. Boards soiled and shelf-worn at edges. Spine ends chipped and frayed and edge points worn to boards. Gilt on spine dulled but still legible. Internally, pages age-toned with minor soiling scattered throughout. Bookseller ticket to the bottom inside edge of the front board, otherwise no previous owners marks or signatures. Overall, a very good copy.
$65.00