Category: Agriculture

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Le Jardinier Fruitier: Principes Simplifies de la Taille des Arbres Fruitiers expliques a l'Aide de Nombreuses Figures Dessinees par l'Auteur, et augmentees d'une Etude sur les Bons Fruits

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Paris, Author : 1862, 1863

Seller ID: 395

1862-63 TWO VOLUME ILLUSTRATED FRENCH GUIDE TO PRUNING AND GRAFTING FRUIT TREES BY PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF PARIS. Two 9 inches tall hardcover volumes, contemporary 1/2 red calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, over 300 wood engravings in text. Edges of covers rubbed, spines sunned, light foxing, dampstaining to preliminary pages of vol. 2. Overall good+. Vol. 1 contains chapters on pruning apple and pear trees; vol. 2 covers peach, apricots, prunes, berries, and grapes.
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Nouvelle Chymie du Gout et de l'Odorat, ou l'art de composer facilement & a peu de frais les Liqueurs a boire & les Eaux de Senteurs

By: Poncelet, (Polycarpe)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Paris, Pissot : 1774

Seller ID: 379

1774 SCARCE FRENCH MANUAL ON THE CHEMISTRY OF TASTE AND SMELL AND THE PRODUCTION OF LIQUEURS, ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT. 8 inches tall hardcover, 2 volumes in one, octavo. xlviii, 210; [3]-320, [4 (avis au relieur & errata) inserted between pages 318 and 319], [3] pp. 6 engraved plates, index, binder's instructions and errata; light stains, yellowing, marginal tear page 313. Original calf boards, corners worn, expertly rebacked spine with raised bands, gilt red leather label. ''Placed in the text are six plates of stills and apparatus. Each plate is signed: De la Ga...
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Art de Faire Eclorre de d'Elever en Toute Saison des Oiseaux Domestiques de Toutes Especes, Soit par le Moyen de la Chaleur du Fumier, Soit par le Moyen de Celle du Feu Ordinaire

By: Reaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Royale : 1749

Seller ID: 1241

1749 FIRST EDITION 2-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON INCUBATION OF DOMESTICATED FOWL EGGS WITH TECHNIQUES ILLUSTRATED BY FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS. Two hardcover volumes 6 3/4 inches tall, full calf binding, spine with raised bands, compartments gilt, gilt red title labels, red-speckled edges, xii, Vol. I: xii, 342 pp, 9 folding copper plates; Vol. II: [iv], 339 pp, 6 folding plates; each volume additionally illustrated by 10 engraved title vignettes and several in-text engraved vignettes. Edges of boards rubbed, endpapers browned, pages age-toned, very good. French language. RENE ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE REAUMU...
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Image for Nouveau cours complet d'agriculture théorique et pratique contenant la grande et la petite culture, l'économie rurale et domestique, la médecine vétérinaire etc . ou Dictionnaire raisonné et universel d'agriculture. Ouvrage rédigé sur le plan de celui de feu l'abbé Rozier, duquel on a conservé les articles dont la bonté a été prouvée par l'expérience ; par les membres de la section d'agriculture de l'Institut de France etc.

Nouveau cours complet d'agriculture théorique et pratique contenant la grande et la petite culture, l'économie rurale et domestique, la médecine vétérinaire etc . ou Dictionnaire raisonné et universel d'agriculture. Ouvrage rédigé sur le plan de celui de feu l'abbé Rozier, duquel on a conservé les articles dont la bonté a été prouvée par l'expérience ; par les membres de la section d'agriculture de l'Institut de France etc.

By: Rozier, Francois

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Paris, Deterville : 1821-23

Seller ID: 396

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, BY AUTHOR KILLED DURING FRENCH REVOLUTION, ILLUSTRATED WITH 67 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES. 16 hardcover volumes, over 500 pages per volume. 8 1/2 inches tall, contemporary 3/4 plum leather with pebbled cloth binding, gilt emblem of Society of Writers to the Signet on each cover, spines gilt, small bookplate to front paste-down of each volume; 67 engraved folding plates in excellent condition. Corners and edges of spine worn, scattered light foxing, overall very good. FRANCOIS ROZIER (1734 – 1793) was a French botanis...
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Apples and Pears in Orchards of Michurin Experimenters

By: Smirnov, V.F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Moscow, : 1951

Seller ID: 398

COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good. IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a...
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Five Hundred New Varieties of Apples and Pears Developed in the USSR

By: Smirnov, V.F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Moscow, Nauka Publishing House : 1966

Seller ID: 397

COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS OF APPLES AND PEARS DEVELOPED IN THE USSR DURING THE KRUSCHEV AND BREZHNEV ADMINISTRATIONS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed gilt images of apple and pear and gilt title to cover and spine; 255 pages with 64 colored plates, each picturing 2 to 4 varieties. Corners bumped, marginal browning to endpapers, no dust jacket; very good. Text in Russian. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Society of Nature Experimenters.
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