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| (MULTIPLE AUTHORS) Self- and cross-fertility and flowering habits of certain herbage grasses and legumes University College of Wales, Aberystwyth: Welsh Plant Breeding Station, 1931, 1st edition .Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.240 pp. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 | JP¥ 3557] Book number: 5225 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| AGRICOLA, G.A. [GEORGIUS, PEN-NAME OF GEORG BAUER] L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs Amsterdam, chez la Veuve de Pierre de Coup, 1732, Translation from German.Marbled leather boards.V.g./No Jacket.Two volumes, in matching full leather C18 binding.Bookseller's tickets on end papers (Are.Coccoz) and early C20 owner's bookplates (Charles A.Jensen) on ffeps.Tome 1 contains 10 plates, some folded; tome 2 contains 14 folded plates.The bookplate owner's inscription ""Chas.A.Jensen"" appears on the recto preceding the title page of each volume.The text paper is somewhat browned and with mild foxing towards the extremities, scarcely affecting the text.The stitching is sound and there is minor shelf wear to the edges and corners of the boards.The plates are in very good condition with no apparent tears or chips.Spines gilt, 5 raised bands, title and volume number inset on red leather.The German scholar Georgius Agricola is best known for his work on mines and minerals, ""De re metallica"", but he wrote several other learned works including ""Neu und nie erhoerter doch in der Natur und Vernunfft wohlgegruendeter Versuch der Universal-Vermehrung aller Baeume, Strauchen und Blumen-Gewaechse"" from which the present work was translated.It proposes several novel techniques for propagation of trees by grafting, and an English version was edited for publication by the prolific author Richard Bradley.Vol.1: (viii), 261 pp.(p.258 is misprinted 158, text is correct); vol.2: (iv), 146, (8) pp.In French. GBP 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 392.25 US$ 583.1 | JP¥ 51869] Book number: 2197 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ARMSTRONG, S.F. British grasses and their employment in agriculture Cambridge University Press, 1943, Reprint of 1937 third edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.Good /No Jacket.Cover worn and dulled, internally sound.xi, 350 pp. In English. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 | JP¥ 2371] Book number: 4939 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ARBORICULTURAL ASSOCIATION Arboricultural Journal: an international journal of urban forestry A.B.Academic Publishers, Berkhamsted, 1982-2006, Vols.6 (2) - 29 (3) only.Loose parts.ISSN 0307-1375.V.g./.A long run of the journal of the Arboricultural Association.In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 | JP¥ 7410] Book number: 6070 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| AZZI, GIROLAMO Agricultural ecology Constable, 1956, 1st English edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Small tear in jacket flap.xv, 424 pp. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP¥ 4446] Book number: 4933 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BERNATZKY, A. Tree ecology and preservation Elsevier, 1978, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.0 444 41606 4.Fine /No Jacket.(6), 357 pp. In English. GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 89.75 US$ 133.28 | JP¥ 11856] Book number: 5380 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BLACK, C.A. Soil-plant relationships John Wiley & Sons , 1957, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Jacket torn, otherwise v.g.vii, 332 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 4970 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BOWMAN, JOHN C. An introduction to animal breeding Edward Arnold, 1974, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 7131 2446 6.V.g./No Jacket.(4), 76 pp. In English. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 5341 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BOYCOTT, ROSIE Our farm: a year in the life of a smallholding Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.978 0 7475 8897 9.V.g./Good.Jacket with slight edge wear, internally near fine.xi, 304, (2) pp. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 6107 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BOYS, JOHN A general view of the agriculture of the county of Kent: with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, from the original report transmitted to the Board; with additi Printed for G.Nicol, Pall-Mall, 1796, Reissue of 1st edition with additions .Half leather, plain grey boards, gilt title 'Kent by Boys' on spine.V.g./No Jacket.A very good copy in original boards bound in half calf; the leather has been varnished, retaining the (worn) leather corners, but it is internally sound, with no splitting of hinges at rear and a little bit of erosion of the pastedown near the base of the front hinge.The spine is lettered 'Kent by Boys' in gilt along with seven impressed gilt lines.The folds of the map (which is coloured showing soil types) and table are intact.It has an heraldic bookplate 'Che Sara Sara' of Woburn Abbey dated 1873, but no inscriptions.The two very crisp plates of the South Down Ram and the Turn-wrest Kentish Plough are followed by a page of errata; the first is signed 'H.Boys' and both were engraved by Neale, Strand.Faversham is spelled Feversham on the map, which is coloured showing soil types.John Russell Smith's Bibliotheca Cantiana gives the first edition as 'Brentford, 1794', pp.107 and the second edition (""with a table and 2 plates"") as 'London, 1805' with 317 pp.Ours was published in London by G.Nicol and the Board of Agriculture in 1796, and has 205 pages, which puts it mid-way between the two in length and has the additional plates and map. In English. GBP 320.00 [Appr.: EURO 358.5 US$ 533.12 | JP¥ 47423] Book number: 4240 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BRADLEY, RICHARD The science of good husbandry: or, the Oeconomics of Xenophon. Shewing the method of ruling and ordering a family, and of managing a farm to the best advantage. London: printed for Tho.Corbet, at Addison's-Head without Temple-Bar, 1727, 1st edition thus. Modern three quarter leather binding by Baynton of Bath.Fine /No Jacket.Attractively rebound in three-quarter red leather by Boynton of Bath with feather-marbled boards, gilt title, author's name and date on spine.Internally a very good copy showing only the minimum of wear.[10], 131 p.; 20 cm.First edition in this translation, which is written in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Critobulus. In English (tr.from Greek). GBP 280.00 [Appr.: EURO 313.75 US$ 466.48 | JP¥ 41496] Book number: 3846 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BURLEY, J. & CARLOWITZ, P. VON (EDS.) Multipurpose tree germplasm ICRAF, Nairobi, 1984, Proceedings of a planning workshop, June 1983.Paper covers.Fine /No Jacket.Inscribed by the first editor on ffep.Little used.xvi, 298 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5251 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BUTLER, BRENDAN Farming in the forties: a story on the edge of being lost The author, Newton Abbot, n.d.(c.2006), 1st edition.Bound with plastic clip.V.g./No Jacket.Includes loosely inserted undated (c.2008) two-sided autograph letter from the author.27 pp. several photographs including 6 pages of photos at end. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 6047 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CAREFOOT, G.L. & SPROTT, E.R. Famine on the wind: plant diseases and human history Angus & Robertson, 1969, 1st UK edition .Hard covers, dust jacket.0 207 95053 9.Fine /Fine.Fine/good (wrapper torn at rear); first published in the USA in 1967.Foreword by Julian Huxley. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 1235 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLARK, F.E. & ROSSWALL, T. (EDS.) Terrestrial nitrogen cycles Ecological Bulletins, 1981, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.91 546 0290 4.Fair /No Jacket.Hinges of spine abraded along their whole length.714 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 4954 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| COOKE, G.W. Fertilizers and profitable farming Crosby Lockwood, 1964, 2nd edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Jacket with sm.tear at top edge, otherwise very good.xix, 143 pp. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 4971 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| COOKE, G.W. Fertilizing for maximum yield Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1978, Reprint of 2nd edition.Paper covers.0 258 97042 1.V.g./No Jacket.xxx, 297 pp. In English. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 4952 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| COX, GEORGE W., ATKINS, MICHAEL D. Agricultural ecology: an anlaysis of world food production system W.H.Freeman, San Francisco, 1979, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.0 71667 1046 3.V.g./No Jacket.(10), 721 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 4934 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DAVIES, WILLIAM The grass crop: its development, use and maintenance Spon Agricultural Books, 1960, 2nd edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Little used; slight edge wear to jacket.xv, 363 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 4935 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DUMONT, RENE Agronome de la faim [Agronomy of hunger] Editions Robert Laffont, 1974, 1st edition.Paper covers, wrap-around flaps.Good /No Jacket.394 pp. In French. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 5216 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DUTTON, RODERICK W. Changing rural systems in Oman: the Khabura Project Kegan Paul International, 1999, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7103 0607 5.As new/As new.The University of Durham's innovative Department of Geography undertook a long-term experiment in rural development, starting in the mid 1970s during a period when Oman was undertaking a rapid if belated spurt of development.By focussing on rural crafts and cottage agriculture they facilitated policy development by the Omani government, improved veterinary care for sheep and goats, helped to market dates and other produce more effectively and even started to domesticate the Little Bee, a smaller version of the honeybee which is native to Oman.The author successfully demonstrates that the retention of traditional values is not incompatible with rural development.xx, 243 pp. well illustrated with line drawings and statistical tables.In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2139 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ESCRITT, J.R. (FOREWORD) Turfgrass diseases Sports Turf Research Institute, Bingley, 1979, 1st edition.Paper covers.Fine /No Jacket.Illustrated in colour; a compact guide to diseases of mown grass.36 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 5754 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| EVANS, GWILYM Pioneers of Gogerddan Cambrian News, for the author, n.d. 1st edition.Paper covers.0 900 43937 8.As new /No Jacket.95 pp.; portrait of the author for frontispiece.In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 4943 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| FELLERS, CARL R. & ESSELEN, W.B. Cranberries and cranberry products Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, 1955, Bulletin no.481.Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.62 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 5249 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| FOTH, H.D., TURK, L.M. Fundamentals of soil science John Wiley & Sons , 1972, Reprint of 4th edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.0 471 26790 2.V.g./No Jacket.Corner bumped, otherwise sound.xi, 454 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 4969 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. |
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