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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
£750.00
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...
Mid-century teaching collection of cooking ingredients
£550.00
Overview & Condition A remarkable, home-made collection of 160 samples of cooking ingredients housed in individual glass vials in a portable case, together with a binder of typed notes...
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...
The American Products Company | Zanol. The Better Way to Buy. Catalog No. 20
£450.00
Overview & Condition A beautiful, 78 page chromolithographic catalogue for the American Products Company’s Zanol line of cosmetics, food products, and home goods, including 16 pages in full colour....
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