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Agriculture & Food Science
Aikin, John | The Calendar of Nature
£350.00
Overview & Condition Third edition of this charming little book on the changing of the seasons from month to month by the “physician and man of letters” John Aiken...
Appert, M. Louis | The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years
£850.00
Overview & Condition First English language edition of the first book on canning as a food preservation technique. Louis Appert (1749-1841) "learned the art of cooking from his father,...
Breuil, Alphonse du | The Scientific and Profitable Culture of Fruit Trees
£45.00
Overview & Condition English language translation of a treatise on fruit trees by the French horticulturist Alphonse du Breuil (1811-1890). Du Breuil wrote several books on fruit trees that...
Buckland, Frank T. | Fish Hatching
£75.00
Overview & Condition First edition. A lovely, fresh copy of this important early work on raising young salmon by the Victorian Era's leading authority on pisciculture. The naturalist Francis...
Evelyn, John | Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions
£1,000.00
Overview & Condition Third edition of "Evelyn's most important horticultural work" and the first official book publication of the Royal Society. In 1652 the diarist and translator John Evelyn...
Metcalf, F. H. | The Bee Community: The Study of an Insect
£45.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first impression of this charming illustrated work on honey bees, with chapters on their biology, classification, social structures, and habits, as well as information...
Pink, Alfred | Gardening for the Million
£75.00
Overview & Condition A very handsomely designed turn-of-the-century gardening encyclopedia comprising entries on all types of plants, equipment, and pests. London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1904]. Octavo. Original blue cloth...
Simmonds, P. L. | The Animal Food Resources of Different Nations
£50.00
Overview & Condition First and only edition of this remarkable work on animals eaten around the world, including domestic, wild, and exotic species, and even cannibalism among humans. In...
Simpson, J. | The Wild Rabbit in a New Aspect or Rabbit-Warrens That Pay
£35.00
Overview & Condition Second edition, first published in 1893. A very attractive copy of this book on maintaining wild rabbit populations for commercial purposes, mainly on estates and large...
Watson, Alfred E. T. (ed) & H. A. Macpherson | Fur & Feather Series: Red Deer
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing and a beautiful copy of this key volume in the Fur and Feather Series, which began publication in 1893 as the only...
Watson, Alfred E. T. (ed.) & H. A. Macpherson | Fur & Feather Series: The Partridge
£35.00
Overview & Condition Second edition of the very first book in the Fur and Feather Series, which began publication in 1893 as the only book series devoted to all...
Watson, Alfred E. T. (ed.) & H. A. Macpherson | Fur & Feather Series: The Pheasant
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing of this key volume in the Fur and Feather Series, which began publication in 1893 as the only book series devoted to...
Watson, Alfred E. T. (ed.) & James Edmund Harting | Fur, Feather, & Fin Series: The Rabbit
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing and a very attractive copy of this volume on rabbits from the Fur and Feather Series, which began publication in 1893 as...
Watson, Alfred E. T. (ed.); William Senior | Fur, Feather, and Fin Series: Pike and Perch
£50.00
Overview & Condition First edition, first printing. A very attractive copy of Pike and Perch, one of the less common volumes in the Fur, Feather, and Fin series, which...
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