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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...
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...
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