ADSETT, DELL

A Township Like Ours : The Story of Colyton District from the Year 1874

New Zealand, Colyton Young Farmers. 1974, Limited Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Produced for the Centennial. Number 313 signed to half title. Farming locality on the plain between the Oroua River and the Mangaone Stream, 8km east of Feilding. Green leatherette, 101 pages in 3 column layout with numerous photo plates of people and places. Fine. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 15477

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

ANDERSON, E ARNOTT

A Life's Roudabout WW2

New Zealand, Pegasus Press. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Authors experiences farming in Canterbury and the King Country before and during the depression. During WWII in El Alamein, Tripoli, Italy, Greece and Crete. Following the war working at Kalimera Station in Canterbury. 172 pages with b/w photo plates. CONDITION Tan cloth is a bit age mottled to edges and spine o/w unworn, internally very bright and crisp. DJ VG with light rubbing to spine ends and tips, short tear bottom front tip. #New Zealand Biography#. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 14286

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: World War Two History

ANNETT, H E

Artificial Fertilisers for Farm and Garden

Whangarei, New Zealand, Northern Publishing Company. 1934, First Edition. Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not Dated (1934 NZNB A532) Brown paaper wraps stapled, pp 47 with advertising material. Bright and fresh as new. #Kiwiana#. Fine/N/A.

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Book number: 11860

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: New Zealand Farming

ARMATAGE, GEORGE

Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor

London, United Kingdom, Frederick Warne & Co. 1890, 6th Edition. Quarto Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revised & considerably enlarged edition. Further titled. With copious notes, recipes etc. and upwards of 350 practical illustrations showing forms of disease and treatment. CONDITION Pebble cloth bds with nice Gilt tooled decoration of Cow to front, has been professionally repaired with new Leather spine with 5 raised bands and Gilt title flags. Some wear to cloth at edges, nice marbling to all edges, new eps with marbled and gilt art paper, pp xx 920 with 3 chromolithographic plates and matching clean tissue guards, 359 nicely engraved detailed illus through out. Copy is bright and crisp, first few pages have as crease at top cnr o/w exceptionally good with one stamp to last page of index at rear from the Dept of Agriculture. Overweight. Very Good/N/A.

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Book number: 13588

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

AUSTIN, MARY

The Flock

Boston, USA, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1906, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: E Boyd Smith. An account of the shepherd industry of California. CONDITION Brown bds with bevilled edges, bright gilt titles and decortion to front (faint wear at tips and small mark top front) bright gilt top edge, frontis illus plate in b/w with snowy clean tissue guard, 266 pages. Copy is very bright and clean, illus through out. Lightly toned end pages. Overweight. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 16791

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: E Boyd Smith

BAKER, H

Live Stock Cyclopedia For Farmer & Stock Owner

U S A, R C Barnam. 1920, First Edition Thus. (ISBN: 00000000000) Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Further titled. Including the breeding, care, feeding and management of Horses, Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Poultry with a special department on Dairying being also a complete Stock Doctor. Originally published in this edition 1916 as a 7 volume set, this published as one large volume. Includes 1000 engraved illus and half toned photo illus with coloured backgrounds. 2 tipped in foldouts on aging horses and cattle by their teeth. Illustrations are wonderfully detailed. Brown buckram with Black borders and titles (mostly very good with odd small mark and minor shelf wear) pp xxxviii 1406. Nice crisp and bright copy, names inside front and eps foxed, fold out of horses teeth has been torn out for use but chart is present and undamaged apart from tipped in edge, discoloration to one page where a pressed flower is present. Overall in Very Nice Condition. Overweight. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 13592

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: 00000000000

DUTCHER, R. ADAMS; JENSEN, CLIFFORD O; ALTHOUSE, PAUL M

Introduction to Agricultural Biochemistry

New York, U.S.A. John Wiley & Son. 1951, First Edition. Buckram with dust jacket, Large 8vo. Completely rewritten from earlier volume of same title with new co authors. Book is divided into 3 parts; General introduction; The Plants including germination, fertiisers, metabolism and pesticides; The Animals including feed and digestion, vitamins, carbohydrates and metabolism. CONDITION Blue bds with bright Gilt title in Black flag, 502 pages with tables, figural and photo illus. Tight and clean, not worn or inscribed. Original DJ has mild edge wear with chipped spine ends and one short tear. Overweight. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 9833

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: Agriculture Plant Chimistry Biochemistry Lipids Ermination, Fertiisers Pesticides Farming Chemurgy

KEEBLE, SIR FREDERICK

Fertilizers and Food Production on Arable and Grass Land

London, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. 1932, First Edition. Cloth with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Navy waxed cloth bds with btight Gilt titles (fresh as new apart from sl bruised bottom cnrs) pp ix 196 with graphs including one fold out. Tight and bright as new, name to ffep. Original DJ bright and unworn. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 11888

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

MAXWELL, E

Afforestation in Southern Lands : Dealing Specially with Location As to Market, System and Methods of Planting, Syvicultural Treatment and Species Most Suitable for Southern Lands

Auckland, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs. 1930, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not Dated 1930. (NZNB M1411) Edition of 1,000 copies. Green leathette bds with crisp gilt titles, booksellers stamp to paste down, name inked to ffep, pp 315 +xi with 22 photo illus. CONDITION is not worn, not foxed in fact fresh as the day it was printed in unread state. #Kiwiana#. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7152

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: New Zealand

NEWTON, PETER

The World of Peter Newton : The Best of His High Country Writing

Wellington, New Zealand, A.H. & A.W.Reed. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0589014560) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. By the Author of Wayleggo and other High Country tales. Jouneys to most of the high country stations on horseback including Glen Lyon, Mesopaotamia, Erewhon and Moleswoth Stations, working the animals, the people he met and worked along side mustering amonst the tussock land. CONDITION Blue bds with bright gilt title, Pp x 171 with b/w photo plates. Copy is very bright and crisp, top cnrs crushed. DJ not worn. Overweight. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 16968

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: Glen Lyon, Mesopaotamia, Erewhon and Moleswoth Staions New Zealand Canterbury Otago High Country New Zealand History 0589014560

SAINSBURY, ARTHUR

Angora Wool Rabbits for Profit in Australia and New Zealand with a Chapter on the Chinchilla, Rex and Other Pelt Breeds

Auckland, New Zealand, Self Published. 1929, 2nd Edition. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown card wraps with paste on illus, 97 pages with photo and line illus through out. Nice crisp copy, rust from staples showing and minor handling signs. Very Good.

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Book number: 15657

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

STAPLEDON, R G; HANLEY, J A

Grass Land, Its Management and Improvement

London, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. 1927, First Edition. Cloth with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Navy bds with btight Gilt title (fresh with sl. canted cnrs) pp 159 tight and clean (gift inscription to ffep) Original wrapper is age discoloured with price clipped spine and light wear to extremities. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 8666

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: Pasture Management

VANCE, WILLIAM

High Endeavour - Story of the Mackenzie Country

New Zealand, A. H. & A. W. Reed. 1980, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 0589012770) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Story of the Mackenzie County high country from the days of the explorers and squatters to the establishment of the sheep stations. Describes the lives of the shepherds, shearers, rabbiters, women and wagoners, who forged this community. Details of all the high country stations established in the region. CONDITION Tan bds (unworn w sharp cnrs) illus by Ester Hope to front liner, map liner at rear, pp [xiii] 275 with numerous photo plates, fold out run schedule 1889-1946 at rear. Bright and crisp appears unread. DJ not price clipped, unscuffed. Only fault is faint atmospheric toning at ends. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 17105

Catalogue: Farming & Rural Life

Keywords: 0589012770