Search Results: AGRICULTURE from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

1979. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: The Biology and Taxonomy of the Solanaceae. (Linnean Society Symposium Series No. 7, 1979. pp171-190, ills in text, plt. at end.

London, 1855. Very good overall. Engraved trade advertising letterpress advertising the services of Thomas Beck, Wholesale Stationer, Engraver, Printer, Lithographer, Die Sinker and Manufacturer of Copying Machines, 81 Cheapside, Two Doors West of Old Jewry, London. A London newspaper advertisement for Thomas Beck Co. appeared in December 1846. With an engraved vignette of dock workers at an English/Australian? dock sealing crates marked "Gold" , "Tallow" and "Wool", with tall masted ships & a steamship visible in the distance; elaborate engraved borders. Printed on laid paper, blank at verso. 4 1/4 x 4 3/4". Slightly marked.

Department of Primary Industry, Papua New Guinea, 1978. Paperback. Very good. 4to,19pp, [4], ills, map vgc. Stiff yellow paper wrappers with title in black at yellow front cover.

Sydney: New South Wales Intelligence Dept, 1907. First printing. Ephemera. Very good condition. A pamphlet promoting agriculture in New South Wales. The map shows colored zones for dairying and intense cultivation, mixed farming with some dairying, wheat and sheep, artesian areas. Uncolored areas are delineated as "Pastoral with Cultivation within Irrigation Areas." With small inset of Australia and NSW highlighted. On the verso is explanatory text outlining the agricultural potential to sustain primary industries and then promoting increased immigration and tourism, including fares and regulations for assisted passages, climate, cost of living. This pamphlet features a tinted picture of Martin Place "The Soil of New South Wales is rich in Potential Wealth" "Lumps of Gold await the sturdy Settler who brings a fair measure of Application, Pluck, and Perseverance..." 22 1/2 x 17 1/2" folds to 8 3/4 x 3 3/4", Libraries Australia ID 44011705.

New York: Orange Judd Company, 1875. Hardcover. Good + condition. The volume of 12 complete numbers includes a series of articles by the architect S. B. Reed, of Corona, New York, with the following titles, " A House Costing $1,500 to $2,000"; "A Farm House Costing $2,800" (p. 372); "A Farm House Costing $3,000" (p.415); and "A Brick House Costing $4,000" (p.453) . Other articles pertain to a wide range of subjects such as "Valentine's Morning" (p.67), baseball ("About Ball Covering", p27), "Standard Architectural Books for Carpenters and Builders" (p397), an advertisement with charming illustration for a toy set called C. M. Crandall's Menagerie of Animals (p.443), and instruction on fowl shooting, "The Winged Duck Game" (p.457-458). Large 4to, 476pp, b&w illus throughout. Dark red library binding with gilt title on spine. Pages evenly toned; slight staining to pages 473 through 476; a little insect activity at the very top edge of the last pages not affecting text.

New York: C. M. Saxton, 1855. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two volumes bound in one, including: The American Rose Culturist; Being a Practical Treatise on... the Management of the Rose... adapted to the Climate of the United States, to which are added...Directions for the...Dahlia (Bound with) Every Lady Her Own Flower Gardener... by Louisa Johnson. NY 1855, revised from the 14th London edition, and adapted to the Use of American Ladies. 12mo, xiii, 96pp, 6 b&w plates. C.M. Saxton, NY 1852, 1st edition [with] viii, 9 - 119pp. C.M. Saxton, NY 1855, 1st publ. 1854. Original pale green blind & gilt stamped publisher's cloth in very good condition. Endpapers slt. foxed otherwise a very clean, pleasant copy of a gardening book designed for women in the U.S. Includes insects, manure, greenhouses, propagation, etc.

Melbourne, Australia, 1888. From the wool collection of W.G. Markham of Avon, N.Y., an important importer, exporter and breeder of sheep in the United States. The archive includes four auction catalogues from August & September 1883; Goldsbrough's Monthly Circular for February 20, 1878 (the folio size); 13 wool samples in pictorial envelopes from the Columbia Cream Separator Co, Avon, NY marked with the weight, age of ram/ewe and "M&P" or "Split Ear", etc.; some samples within an envelope the Government Technological Museum, Sydney. The auction catalogues include: Catalogue of Pure Merino and Lincoln Sheep 26th August 1886 by Fisken, Gibson & Co, Melbourne, M'Carron, Bird & Co., 8vo, 66pp, with period price notes; Catalogue of Exhibits Entered for the Corowa Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Show... 8th & 9th August, 1888. Albury, Adams, Cooper and Adams 1889, 8vo, 20pp, pink printed wrappers a bit ruffled; Catalogue of Pure Merino Rams and Pure Lincoln Rams for sale by Messrs.… Read More

Sydney, 1920. 5th edition. Good +. West Australian provenance.

Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1859. Hardcover. Good +. From the 6th London edition (first published 1853). 512pp, frontis. + 5 b&w ills in text (one missing a corner). Red gilt cloth, corners bumped and dusty, foxing on some pages o/w good.

London: Colburn & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Good condition. Australian content includes: on Western Australia, zoology (kangaroos), farming, wine growing, New South Wales, gold discoveries, flight to the diggings, geology of the gold fields, Victoria & gold fields, South Australia, Adelaide, and the discoveries of Sturt and Barker. Book plate of the noted Western Australian Paul Hasluck, Australian statesman who served as the 17th Governor-General of Australia. 2 volumes. 8vo, xii, 318pp, 16pp ads, engraved frontispiece "View of South Adelaide" (&) vi, 304pp, 16 pp ads, frontispiece. Chipping at edge of spine; front end paper Volume I detached but present. F11299.

London: J.M. Dent, 1925. Hardcover. Very good. The Outward Bound Library, c1925. 242pp, F + 5 ills by John Goodchild, maps on ep. Blue cloth, dj, vgc. Absolon copy.

New York: Carlton & Porter, 1854. Hardcover. Very good. Sections on geography, agriculture and 45pp on gold fields. Early gold report 1st published in UK, see F 6295. LACKS p. 194-206. Nd, c1854. 12mo, 207pp, woodcut frontis. Light browning throughout. Orig. brown cloth marked & faded, gilt title on spine.

Melbourne: McCarron Bird & Co., 1914. Very good condition. A pamphlet printed for distribution at the 1915 World's Fair in San Francisco. Number 2 of 6 pamphlets available 'relating to Undeveoped Agricultural Industries'. Sticker of Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand on front. 16pp, 10.25 x 4 3/8", printed paper wrappers with blue titles, staplebound. Covers slt. foxed, internally clean. Not found on Trove.

West Grove, Pennsylvania: Dingee & Conard Company, 1892. A home gardener's catalog from the Dingee & Conard Company in business since 1875, complete with two color plates of lilies and a folded 4pp handbill for roses. 6 3/4 x 10", 110pp, color paper wraps, staplebound, 2 color plates, many b&w illustrations, detached, otherwise clean.

The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1965. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted: The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 74, No. 2, June 1965. 237-239pp, paper wrps.

Rome: Food & Agriculture Org. of the United Nations, 1972. Paperback. Very good. 36pp, b&w ills in text.

Boston, 1874. Good + overall. An incomplete run of the Boston Journal of Chemistry dating January, March, May, June, July of 1874, (Volume VIII No. 7, 9, 11,12; VIX No. 1). A sampling of articles: Chemical Examination of Urine; Why Teeth Decay; Effect of Electricity on Plants; Peat Bogs; Milk Adulteration; Pork Packing; Nitrogen in Soil; Medical Treatment of Children. The Boston Journal of Chemistry ran from 1866 to 1880 with the former title: Boston Journal of Chemistry and Pharmacy; July 1866-May 1867, and later as Boston Journal of Chemistry and Popular Science Review. OCLC: 2258521. 5 newspapers, 9 1/2 x 12 1/4", approx.. 20pp each, string bound, numbered consecutively, many advertisements, original folds, small blue address label affixed to front of 4 issues (Dr. F.K. Morton). Dusty, slt. toned, very readable.

Proceedings of the Anthropological Institute, 1885. Paperback. Good +. (&) Some New Britain Customs. (&) On some Ceremonies of the Central Australian Tribes. (&) Maternal Descent in the Salic Law. (&) On Some Native Trade Centres (abstract). (&) The Annual Harvest Festival in Kiriwina, British New Guinea (abstract). Extracted from: Proceedings of the Anthropological Institute, ca. mid 1880's. pp305-330, b&w tables in text, stapled.

Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, 1901. Very good condition. Signed presentation copy, to Charles A. Clough, compliments of N. A. Cobb. Dr. Cobb was one of the first to be appointed to the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, as Government Vegetable Pathologist, where he investigated parasitic diseases of plants and farm stock. He later was appointed to the Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association Experiment Station in Honolulu, having researched diseases of sugar cane. The publication includes many b&w printed photographic images of mechanical harvesters in the field, with the parts numbered, and identified in captions, as well as horse powered combined harvesters. Tall 8vo, 32pp, b&w ills, printed b&w photographic and b&w line drawings. Pink paper wrappers, titles printed in black. Front wrapper only slightly toned at margins; small attached chip at upper corner rear wrapper. Miscellaneous Publication, No. 519.

Shanghai, 1930. Otherwise very good condition. Broadside advertising the Shanghai silk company with text in Chinese and English, illustrated with woodcut of the silk company at the upper right. Chinese silk production for foreign markets had benefited from the near collapse of the European silk industry caused by the silkworm disease pebrine during the 1850s and 1860s; Nanjing Road became the earliest shipping street in Shanghai and over time, the premier shopping street in China. Text and border printed in red, on thin brown paper. Paper size: 10 1/2" x 16. Original folds, cracked on fold lines, tears to the left edge with some marginal loss, ruffled. Image complete.