Search Results: Agriculture from Loe Books

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. pp xx, 489p + 32 publisher's advertisements. b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, 36 further b/w illustrations, and 2 maps. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt knot pattern to front board, bright binding, slight general wear only. Contents clean and tight, neat inscription dated Christmas 1899, (verifying that it is a first edition) light scattered spotting. A very good first edition copy..

Worcester: Littlebury & Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. No Date Circa 1943. B/w photographic plates. Dust jacket with slight edge-wear, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. b/w illustrations. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. Original dust jacket fair only, with some general wear and rubbing, a large piece missing from the head of the front panel, otherwise a little chipped and scuffed to edges, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. A very good clean copy in a fair dust jacket..

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Sixth Edition. 8vo. b/w plates. Original dust jacket good, with some general wear and rubbing, chipped with some loss to to the head/tail of the spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. slight spotting to page edges. A very good copy with a good dust jacket..

London: Temple Smith, 1984. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 161 pages. Covers fine with minimal wear only. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy, clean and bright..

Worcester: Littlebury & Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. No Date Circa 1940. Dust jacket with slight edge-wear, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Turnstile Press, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. b/w plates. Original dust jacket good, with some general wear and rubbing, a little chipped and scuffed to edges (not) price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, minimal foxing. A very good copy with a good dust jacket..

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1937. Book. Illus. by Brian Cook. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 120, colour frontispiece plate by John Nash, b/w photographic plates, publisher's catalogue. Dust jacket by Brian Cook very good with a little of the usual fading to the spine, rubbing to head/tail of the spine, price-clipped, but far superior to most and now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Book very good, slight spotting to edges, top edge dyed green, no inscriptions. A very good copy with a very good dust jacket..

London: Harpercollins, 1989. Book. Illus. by Elizabeth Rice and Elisabeth Dowle, Rosemary Wise. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 367; colour plates and photographic images throughout. Original laminated boards near fine, no fading. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine first edition copy..

London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. 16mo. 95 pages + adverts. Original grey-green cloth binding with black lettering, good with a little general wear and some marking, rear cover lightly stained. Contents good and tight, a little evidence of a label having been removed from the front paste-down, otherwise more or less unmarked. A good/very good copy. A scarce little book..

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1950. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 68 pages; b/w illustrations. Covers very good with light general wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. A scarce government agricultural publication..

London: Printed for the Author, 1796. Book. Good. Full Leather. First Edition. pp. vol. I: [4], [ix]-xvi, 17-318, [2- index,] [2- blank]; voll. II: 108, *109 - *134, 109-290, [325]-332, 291-296. Folding table frontispiece to volume I. The pagination is somewhat erratic, but all seems to be present, there is stub to the preliminaries of vol. I but this is from the folding table. Collation as follows vol. I Title, Advertisment leaf, Preface, Introduction, main text, Index; vol. II; Title page, Preface, Appendix, List of subscribers. Full, conteporary bindings of tree sheep, gilt decoration to the spines. Bindings worn to the spine with much of the covering leather chipped off, the boards remain firmly attached, but ideally need to be rebacked. All edges dyed yellow. Contents clean and tight, paper clean and crisp. A good/;very good set. All of Varlo's self- published works are scarce, but this title is particularly scarce - the list of subscribers listing only around 225 names. It is a… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. b/w illustrations. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering, good with a little general wear and some rubbing to extremities, cloth a little marked. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A good tight copy..

London: Board of Agriculture & Fisheries, 1919. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 12mo. Stapled booklet; 32 pages with printed card covers; small landscape format: 100mm x 140mm. Very good with a little light wear only. Contents clean - no inscriptions. A very good copy. Rare..

London: Academic Press, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. pp 436. Laminated boards, near fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A near fine copy..

London: Richard Philips, 1805. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo [23 x 14 cm]. "From the papers of the Late Robert Somerville" Pp. [6], 326; [2 - A Catalogue of Agricultural Seeds sold by Thomas Gibbs and Co.], [14 - Publisher's catalogue titled "Useful Books recently published, or in the course of publication by Richard Phillips"] Hand-coloured folding map to the front which has been excised but otherwise in very good condition. Publisher's original paper-covered boards with paper title label to the spine, worn with front board attached by one thread only, paper covering to spine chipped in places, now protected in clear removable clear plastic film. Contents good and tight, a little foxing or spotting to edges of some leaves. A good copy. [Note on the binding - it was common or even usual, for publishers at this time to sell books "in boards", for the purchaser to then have bound up to their own specification by their chosen binder. Due to the utilitarian nature… Read More

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1953. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo. 68 pages; b/w illustrations throughout. Covers very good with light general wear. Contents clean and tight, a few corners a little worn, no inscriptions. A very good copy. A scarce Govnerment Agricultural publication..

London: Vinton & Company Limited, 1956. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 142. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine bright copy. (From the AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL STUDENT SERIES. With 6 Illustrations. General Editor J Hunter-Smith.).

London: Printed for John M. Cobbett, 1822. Book. Very Good. Half Leather. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 1st Cobbett ed.; pp. xix, [1], 332; single engraved plate. Contemporary half tan calf with black title label to the spine; very good and strong, a little general wear and rubbing, discreet repair to the front joint, top front corner painful. Contents good and tight, a little scattered foxing to early and last pages, pencil annotation/index to the front blank, old blemishes/stains to pages 3, 9 & 10. A very good copy. Tull's work originally privately printed in 1731. Cobbett writes about Tull's importance to agriculture in his introduction..

New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. Book. Illus. by Barraud, H. Weir, Zwecker, Etc.. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. 8vo. 622 pages, 170 b/w engravings. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering, good with general wear, mottling and staining. Contents clean and tight, 1869 and 1920 owner's signature to the front free end paper, no foxing, a few worm holes, text block tight. A good copy..