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The British Gardener's Calendar, Chiefly Adapted to the Climate of North-Britain : directing the necessary works in every month, in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure-garden...to which is added a dissertation of forest trees and a catalogue of seeds, roots
by Justice. James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1759. Octavo, pp iv, 412, some age-toning throughout, the title page and the final page rather foxed, otherwise extremely firm and tight internally, with no tears, rebound in a very smart dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards. Blanche Henrey 878. [Sir James Justice (1698 - 1763) was a Scottish horticulturalist/gardener. His works on gardening were distributed in much of Britain and Ireland. He reportedly had a passion for botanical experiments, which he pursued at the expense of his finances and family. Indeed the later miniaturist John Kay wrote that tulipomania was the cause of him parting with his estate at Crichton and the purchase of a smaller one. His divorce and expulsion from the Fellowship in the Royal Society has been blamed on the expenses he put into greenhouses and soil mixtures. He is nevertheless a noted figure in Scottish gardening with a claim to be the father of it. The genus Justicia is named for him.]. First Edition. Quarter leather. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019062
- Title
- The British Gardener's Calendar, Chiefly Adapted to the Climate of North-Britain : directing the necessary works in every month, in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure-garden...to which is added a dissertation of forest trees and a catalogue of seeds, roots
- Author
- Justice. James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- R. Fleming
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1759
- Bookseller catalogs
- Garden History; Early works;
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- Title Page
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- Foxed
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Morocco
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