Resultados de búsqueda: Agriculture, Farming, Gardening from Lawrence Jones

Melbourne: James Alston & Sons, 1930. 128pp, num bw ills. Or attractive pictorial wraps. Hole at upper left corner with string for hanging, tiny corner crease to front cover. A most attractive catelogue of windmills and other farm equipment. No date but c1930s.. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Hobart: Tasbook Publishers, 1997. v, 311pp, index, appendix, num bw ills, col pictorial endpapers. Or blue faux leather in pictorial jacket with integral bookmark ribon. Ribbon somewhat frayed otherwise as new. SIGNED and inscribed by Hedley Calvert at top of title page. Limited edition of unstated limitation. Biography of TAsmanian yachtsman, orchardist and raconteur. . Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crescent Books, 1991. 157pp, num col ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Some slight shelf wear. A portrait of the customs, life ways, and history of the Amish, Old Order mennonites and Hutterites known collectively as the Plain People. Beyond the images of horse and buggy and plain clothing lies a rich and complex way of life. Shows the Plain people at work on their farms, and in their shops building furniture without electric power tool. It follows the patterns of everyday family life as mothers endeavour to keep up with farm and family. One room schools, barn raisings, quilting bees, and the canning of vegetables from the garden are all part of the Plain people experience presented in these pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Berlin: Paul Parey, 1973. xii, 203pp, index, bibliography, num bw & col ills. Or textured brown cloth with titles in gold, in jacket. Prev owners bookplate on front pastedown, prev owners name on front free endpaper. Some minor edge wear to jacket. Fifth volume in set. This volume deals with the anatomy of the domestic fowl. Text in German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1966. xxiii, 340pp, illustrated throughout with b/w plates, line drawings, bibliography, index. Ex-libris book plate laid down on the front paste-down. Cloth boards with spine title label, in heavily worn dust-jacket with taped repairs across the spine head extending to 135mm on the front panel, flap folds rubbed and worn, spine worn with tears and some loss. The book's sections cover the first agriculturalists, of the 6th or 7th millennium BC; trade, metal-working and consolidation; climax and change; new techniques and peoples; and the Celtic world and its aftermath.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 4to.

Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1998. 84pp, b/w ills, bibliography. Pictorial card covers with a stain towards the ower edge of the front cover. The book presents traditional cultivation techniques which enhance both the quantity and quality of the active resin and modern discoveries about the nature of cannabis and what is best for its development and potency.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010. xviii, index, notes. Or boards in jacket. Near new. The powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our land, water and food. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 2006. 199pp, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Near new. Account of the Mitchell family- outback NSW and Queensland pioneers in Merino sheep. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1930. xxii, 102pp + indexes, 103 plates, line drawings. Green faux-leather with embossed vignette of eucalyptus leaves/flower; in jacket. The jacket has a few very short edge tears. At some point the jacket has stuck to the front cover causing abrasion to the reverse of the jacket and some adhesion to the front cover. Prev owner name to top and bottom edges, front pastedown and top of preface and chapter 1. An important contribution to the Flora of Australia. This second edition has 25 additional plates, together with further facts and observations concerning many species.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: North Point Press, 1998. 241pp, references, three appendices: Twenty (or so) prize apples; back-yard orchards; and a few good recipes from around the world, index, pictorial endpapers. Or boards in jacket. Near new. The author celebrates the unstoppable spread of apples around the world, their astonishing diversity, their myriad uses, their mythology and their future.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1999. 172pp, three appendices: Twenty (or so) prize apples; back-yard orchards; and a few good recipes from around the world, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The author celebrates the unstoppable spread of apples around the world, their astonishing diversity, their myriad uses, their mythology and their future.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Canberra: CSIRO, 1986. xvii,,341pp, references, charts, graphs, bw ills. Or card covers. Rear cover creased. Proceedings of the 4th symposium on arboviruses held in Brisbane in 1986. Includes extensive material on dengue fever, flavi-virus, bovine ephemeral fever, bluetongue, avian influenza, vectors (including mosquitoes and ticks), and more.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press., 1984. 385pp, index, appendix, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or pictorial card. Minor edge wear to covers, some curling of covers. An account of the Pleasant Valley vendetta which swept through the Tonto Basin country of central Arizona in the latter 1880's between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Not Stated: Whitcoulls, 2003. HEAVY. The book was first published in 1991. 448pp, illustrated with more than 500 colour photographs plus garden plans and line drawings, hardiness zone maps for New Zealand and Australia, appendix, index. Green cloth boards in dust-jacket. In this edition the plant nomenclature has been brought up to date,new plants identified and described both in words and pictorially, changes in fashion accounted for and the flowering perennial section greatly expanded. The detailed text takes the gardener through the steps of garden design, plant selection and plant cultivation and care. Included ios a plant register of more than 5000 plants from old favourites to recent introductions. The plant descriptions include information on their diverse ornamental abilities, growth habitats, cultural needs and gardenscape potential.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Sydney: Times Books International, 1980. xiv, 287pp, index, bibliography, glossary, hundreds col ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Some minor rubbing to board edges, minor edge wear to jacket, prev owners gift notation on front free endpaper. The rear panel of the jacket is stained but mainly visible only from the reverse. Appears to have been reglued between front free endpaper and following page. Manual for serious growers and orchid lovers. The first time the orchids of Asia have been brought together in one volume, with the hybrids achieved by crossing them. The author had one of the largest collections of Phalaenopsis orchids in Singapore.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Soon, Teoh Eng (photographer). 4to.

Emu Park, Qld.: Terrance and Rosemary Alick, 2006. 149pp, index, 106 maps. Or pictorial card covers. Very light edge wear, 2 plain silver stickers to front. Maps showing pastoral properties along with an extensive list showing grid references.. Sixth Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to.

Canberra: Australian National University, 1970. xxiii, 55pp. Or red cloth in jacket. Light rubbing to jackeet, jacket price clipped. Rothery's atlas is a record of a huge 19th century Queensland pastoral holding showing the runs of Messrs Davenport and Fisher in Maranoa District (Qld) and Warago District (NSW). Each of the maps is an attractive watercolour showing the area depicted in meticulous detail-its soil, vegetation, buildings, fences and dams. A fascinating blend of medieval and the modern cartogrophers art.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong 4to.

Melbourne: The Australasian Fruitgrowers Annual & Trade Record, 1922. 120pp, bw ills, ads. Or boards with cloth spine. Very minor flecking to spine otherwise excellent. A book of daily reference for all commercial fruitgrowers. Includes articles on stone fruit, viticulture, citrus etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by `. 4to.

Sydney: Surrey Beatty & Sons Limited, 1992. HEAVY. xviii, 524, xlvi + errata & addenda; index, appendix, line drawings, col lates. Pictorial glossy boards. 4 digit number & prev owner name on front free endpaper. SIGNED and inscribed (to Murray) by author on title page. Completely revised edition of Volume 1 of the standard work on Australia's native orchid species.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Melbourne: CSIRO, 1968. 324pp, index. Or cream card. Some toning to covers. Initially planned for publication in 1969 this slightly abbreviated edition was released a year earlier to coincide with the Australian Sheep and Wool Conference. Many hundreds of references listed covering all aspects of the sheep and the sheep industry.. Conference Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.