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How to create a perfect garden View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas. L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant  la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs. Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold. With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. (8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Engravings  French  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated edition of the reconstruction and description of the famous gardens of Plinius View picture(s) 2 AVAUX, Félibien DES. Les Plans et les Descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le consul. Avec des remarques sur tous ses bâtimens, et une dissertation touchant l'architecture antique & l'architecture gotique. Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With 7 engraved plates, five folding, with plans and views of Plinius' houses and gardens. 112, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous British gardener translated into Dutch View picture(s) 3 BASTER, Job. Philip Miller's maandlyksche tuin-oefeningen in moes-  vrugt- en bloemhof, in boomgaard en oranjehuis, in  stook- en broeikas, en in ent- en kweekery. Derde druk. Amsterdam, Erven H. Gartman, Erven J.W. Vermande, J.J. Schmidt, W. Holtrop, 1821. Original wrappers. With frontispiece engraving by C. Brouwer after J. Smies, a large folding engraved plate, 5 (of 6) large folding tabels. VIII, 292 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cows and bulls of Europe View picture(s) 4 BAUDEMENT, Émile. Le races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Études zootechniques. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1862 (1864). 2 parts in 1 volume (text and atlas). Oblong folio (ca. 35 x 48 cm). Contemporary green half roan, marbled boards and endpapers. With in total 5 maps with hand-colouring and 87 numbered plates. Text part: [6 = half-title, title, approbation dated 1864], LXXIV, [2] pp; the atlas part with 5 part-titles. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  French  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for modern medicine View picture(s) 5 BERGEN, Heinrich von. Versuch einer Monographie der China. Hamburg, Hartwig &Muller, 1826. 2 vols. Text vol. 4to & atlas vol. in royal folio. Original blue boards, with paper title label on spine and cover. With 8 handcoloured engraved plates  by Gustav Andreas Forsmann, and 5 leaves with 10 folding tables in atlas volume. XII, 348 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Forestry  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldine edition of the famous canon of classical texts on agriculture View picture(s) 6 CATO, Marcus Porcius [et al.]. Libri de re rustica. Venice, heirs of Aldus & Andrea Soceri, December 1533. Large 8vo. Later blind- and gold-tooled calf ('a l'antique'). With 2 woodcut Aldine devices and some woodcut geometrical figures in text. [54], 295, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Aldus Manutius  Gastronomy  Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the Dutch translation of the most popular 'domestic' encyclopedia of the 18th century View picture(s) 7 CHOMEL, Noël. Huishoudelyk woordboek, vervattende vele middelen om zyn goed te vermeerderen en zyne gezondheid te behouden, met verscheiden wisse en beproefde middelen voor een groot getal van ziekten, en schoone geheimen om tot een hoogen en gelukkigen ouderdom te geraken, een menigte van manieren om lammeren, schapen, koejen, paarden, muil-ezels, hoenderen, duiven, honigbyen, zywurmen te kweken, voeden, genezen, en winst te doen met die dieren; Velerleije soorten van netten en wyzen om allerleije soorten van vis, dieren en vogelen te vangen, jagen, enz. Een oneindige menigte van geheimen in den tuinbou, kruidkunde, akkerbou, landbou, wyngaard- en boomgaardbou, gelyk ook de kennisse van vreemde gewassen, en hare eigenaartige krachten, enz. Met de voordeelen van het destilleren, verwen, zeepzieden, styfselmaken, kottoenspinnen en maken van kunstgesteenten, die na de natuurlyke gelyken, schilderen met water- en oli-verw, 't maken van bajen en stoffen voor deze en andere landen, van turf, steen, enz. De middlen, waar van zich kooplieden bedienen, om groten handel te dryven, en waar van Engelsen, Hollanders, enz. gebruik gemaakt hebben in den handel met paarden, geiten, schapen, enz. Alles, wat handwerkslieden, tuiniers, wyngaardniers, kooplieden, winkeliers, bankiers, kommissarissen, overheden, officiers van 't Gerecht, edellieden, geestelyken en andere luiden van aanzien, in de eerste bedieningen doen moeten, om zich welvarende te maken. In't Nederduits vertaald, in orde geschikt, en vermeerderd met nuttige artikelen, door de heeren Jan Lodewuk Schuer, A.H. Westerhof, en zeker liefhebber. Leiden & Amsterdam, S. Luchtmans & H. Uytwerf, 1743. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary blind stamped vellum. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 title-pages printed in red and black and 80 folding engraved plates. (8), 1496 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Economy  Encyclopædic Works  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A British planter in India View picture(s) 8 ELLIOT, Robert Henry. The experiences of a planter in the jungles of Mysore. London, Chapman and Hall, 1871. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half red calf, gilt title on spines. With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot. X,(1), 327; XI, (2), 355 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Coffee & Tea  Colonial History  India  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to build your own barns and stables View picture(s) 9 ENGEL, F. Handboek der landhuishoudelijke bouwkunde voor bouwkundigen en landeigenaren. Naar het Hoogduitsch. Gorinchem, A. van der Mast, 1857. Contemporary half cloth. With 32 folding technical and architectural plans. (4), 503, XXII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Dutch  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most popular work on domestic economy in the country of the late 16th, and 17th century View picture(s) 10 ESTIENNE, Charles & Jean LIEBAULT. L'agriculture et maison rustique. Reveüe & augmentée de beaucoup, dont le contenu se voit en la page suyuante: avec un bref recueil des chasses du cerf, du sanglier, du lievre, du renard, du blereau, du connil, du loup, des oyseaux, & de la fauconnerie: comme pourrés voir à la fin de ce livre, avec les figures. Y joint la fabrique & usage de la jauge, ou diapason. Plus a esté adjousté en ceste derniere edition, une instruction pour sçavoir en guels temps, mois, lune, & saison, on doit semer & replanter selon le pays froid & chaud, pour faire advancer & retarder les semences & toutes sortes de graines. Dierniere édition. Lyon, Simon Rigaud, 1654. 4to. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut of a cow with explanatory text within borders, idem of a horse, 2 woodcut illustrations of herbs, 20 nearly full-page woodcut plans of pleasure-gardens, 10 woodcut illustrations on distilling apparatus, and 3 large woodcut illustrations on land-surveying. (16), 574, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Falconry  French  Gardens  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most popular work on domestic economy in the country of the late 16th, and 17th century View picture(s) 11 ESTIENNE, Charles & Jean LIEBAULT. L'Agriculture, et maison rustique. Reveüe & augmentée  de diverses curiositez dignes de remarque, contenües en la page qui suit l'epistre: avec un brief recueil des chasses du cerf, du sanglier, du lievre, du renard, du blereau, du connil, du loup, des oiseaux, & de la fauconnerie. Plus la fabricage et usage de la jauge, ou diapason, tres-neccessaire pour sçavoir iuger ce que tient un vaisseau, suivant la mesure de quel lieu, ville, ou pays que ce soit. Avec une instruction pour scavoir en quel temps, mois, lune & saison on doit semer & replanter selon le pays froid & chaud, pour faire advancer & retarder les semences, & toutes sortes de graines. Derniere édition. Paris, Nicolas de la Vigne, 1640. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut of a cow with explanatory text within borders, idem of a horse, 2 woodcut illustrations of herbs, 20 nearly full-page woodcut plans of pleasure-gardens, 10 woodcut illustrations on distilling apparatus, 3 large woodcut illustrations on land-surveying, large woodcut plan of a orchard ('Trium-verd'). (16), 664 pp. The 16 pp. of the idex are bound after (2). Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to manage a country house and estate by the famous printer/physician Charles Estienne View picture(s) 12 ESTIENNE, Charles (Carolus STEPHANUS or Karel STEVENS), Jean LIÉBAUT, Adam LONICER, Jean SCHRÖDER, Olivier DE SERRES & Cornelis van SOMEREN. Hof-stede en landt-huys. Vervatende niet alleen, de beschrijvinge, plaatsche, bestieringe en waarneminge van een bequame hof-stede, Kruyd- en moes-hof, boter en kaas maken, etc. maar ook van paarden, muylen, ezelen, ossen, koeyen, kalveren, verkens, schapen, geyten, hoenderen, swanen, gansen, enden, faysanten, paauwen, kalkoenen, patrijsen, enz. hoedanige opsiender, hoevenersche, knechten,  maaghden,, en gereetschap den landt-heer noodigh heeft; de beschijvinge der krachten van son en mane, teykenen van goet ende quaad weder, welkke tijdt fr brdrijf moet waarnemen, en met hoedanige genees- en heel-middelen, hij en sijn huys-vrouw, allerley ongeval en sieckten, van menschen en vee sullen helpen en genesen. Midtsgaders de krachten en eygenschappen, nut en hinder van allerhande dieren, hruyden, etc. Daar beneffens een ontwerp van den gehelen land-bouw. ... Als mede de verhandeling van kinder-pokken en maselen, door ... Kornelis van Someren. Dordrecht, Gillis Neering for Abraham Andriesz., 1662. 4to. Later half vellum, boards covered with marbled paper. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on title, one full-page and 3 half-page engraved plates in the text. (8), 189, (27) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Farming  Gardens  Medicine  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the law of longlease in the province Groningen View picture(s) 13 FEITH, Hendrikus Octavius, Hendrik NIENHUIS, W.I. QUINTUS (A.O.) (Eds.). Memorie van regte over het erfpachtsregt, ingevoerd bij de wet van den 10 januarij 1824, met betrekking tot de Groninger vaste beklemming. Groningen, W. Zuidema, 1831. Original blue boards. (4), 79 pp.- Fine clean copy.- (Spine sl. dam.). Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Groningen  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pastoral romances View picture(s) 14 FLORIAN, Jean Pierre Claris de. Oeuvres de M. de Florian. Title of part 1: Galatée, roman pastoral; imité de Cervantes. Quatrieme édition. Title to part 2: Estelle, roman pastoral. (Paris?, ca. 1790). Part 1: Paris, Didot l'Aine, 1785. Part 2: 'Au buis', 1790. 2 parts 1 vol. Sm. 8vo. 19th-century full polished calf, spine gilt with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, decorated gilt borders on sides, marbled endpapers. Part 1: Full-page frontispiece, portrait of Cervantes and four plates outside text, all engraved by J.B. Guyard. Part 2: Full-page engraved frontispiece outside text. 198; 36, 228 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  French  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Corrected edition of the first German work on internal medicine View picture(s) 15 FRIES, Lorenz. Spiegel der artzney ... Gebessert und und wiederumb fleissig übersehen durch Othonem Brunfels. Strasbourg, Balthasar Beck, 18 August 1529. Folio. Contemporary elaborately blind-stamped and blind-tooled calf, spine ribbed, rests of leather ties. With title-page within beautiful large historiated border with portraits of Galienus and Aesculapius , and a full-page woodcut. CXLI ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To increase the production of oil: first edition of a rare and interesting work on the oil-bearing Chinese radish View picture(s) 16 GRANDI, Francesco de'. Istruzione sulla coltura del rafano oleifero Cinese e relative manifatture dell' olio. Torino, Dalla Stamperia Fea, 1793. 8vo. Original wrappers charmingly decorated in pink. With engraved folding plate of a machine for the production of oil (19 x 27 cm). 70, (2 + 4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  China  Gastronomy  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ideas for (re)decorating your garden(s) View picture(s) 17 GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût. Première edition Italienne avec des additions de bâtimens du meilleur goût. Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. 19th century green marbled boards, blue sprinkled edges. Engraved title and 37 engraved plates with numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs and tables. 38 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous work on English garden designs View picture(s) 18 HIRSCHFELD, Christian Cay L. Theorie der Gartenkunst. Leipzig, M.G. Weidmanns Erben, Reich, 1779-1785. 5 volumes. 4to. Early 19th-century half calf. With fine engraved garden view on 5 titles, 231 engravings in text, many full-page, and 6 full-page and 1 folding engraved plate. XIV, 230, [2]; IV, 200, [2]; IV, 251, [5]; IV, 252, [2]; VIII, 368, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Engravings  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With the most attractive early 19th century hunting illustrations View picture(s) 19 JOURDAIN, [rançois Xavier Félix]. Traité Général des Chasses a courre et a tir; contenant  Des principes sûrs pour la propagation du gibier, et la  destruction des animaux nuisibles; un précis de la  législation; la meilleure méthode de dresser et soigner  les chevaux et chiens de chasse; des observations  importantes sur le choix et l'usage du fusil, et enfin  l'histoire naturelle des animaux qui se trouvent en France, et la manière de les chasser; suivi d'un Vocabulaire  explicatif des termes usités par les chasseurs, et des nouvelles fanfares que l'on sonne en chasse. Paris, Audot, 1822. 4 vols. Contemporary uniform gilt half calf, with first owner's name F.C. Raben stamped on lower end of spine. With 20 engravings and 16 aquatints, one folding, all engraved in black, by Susemihl in the first 2 vols.; and 58 engravings and 2 aquatints by Susemihl in the 2 supplement vols., representing several traps and birds; and 12 pp. of musical scores at the end of volume one.  (4), XIV, 311 (=313), (3); (4), 24, 323, (3); VIII,192; (4), 24, 175, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hunting in all its aspects View picture(s) 20 LANGEL, Le comte de. Guide et hygiène des chasseurs. Contenant des recherches historiques sur l'origine de la chasse, l'art de dresser les chiens et les chevaux, des notices sur les differérentes espèces de Gibier à poil et à plume. l'Hygiène des chasseurs et des chiens, la fabrication de la poudre et du plomb à giboyer, celle des poudres et amorces fulminantes, la description du fusil Robert et des avantages qu'il offre sur les autres armes à feu, la législation ancienne et moderne sur la chasse et les ports-d'armes; enfin, un aperçu de tout ce qui peut intéresser le chasseur. Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, Bohaire & Madame Huzard, (after 1836). 8vo. Original wrappers, with title and illustration of a chasing dog in ornamental borders lithographed on front cover and announcement of another publication in same ornamental borders lithographed on back cover, uncut. Engraved frontispiece of 2 hunters in different costumes, beautifully water-coloured by hand and the buttons of their jackets heightened with gold, 1 engraved folding plate showing the shotguns and pistols of the model by J.A. Robert and 4 woodcut tailpieces of chasing dogs and hunting still lives. (4), VIII, 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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