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1935 -1936 Canadian Seed Growers' Association Annual Report

By: Canadian Seed Growers' Association

Price: $61.88

Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian Seed Growers' Association: 1936

Seller ID: Books007018

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

Not merely a document of dirty thirties number crunching, this volume includes pertinent articles on the business including: the use of registered seed, rudiments of pollination and fertilization of farm crops, an analysis of some varieties of oats grown in Nova Scotia, root seed production, and so forth. Please see photos for list of contents and advertisers. This is an original 1936 publication, not a reprint or reproduction. 9.8 x 6.8 inches. Light wear and curling to card covers; scuffing to head of spine. Binding is secure; interior is clean and unmarked: overall very good condition.
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Tenth Annual Report of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association for the Year ending 1914

By: Canadian Seed Growers' Association

Price: $61.88

Publisher: Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau: 1914

Seller ID: Books009590

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

122 pages, plus five photo plates. Clean and unmarked, in sound binding.
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Image for Standard Belgian Hare Book. Being A Clear and Concise Treatise on the Belgian Hare; its origin, kinds, growth of industry, sanitation and construction of the rabbitry, selection of stock, care of the young, feeding, diseases and their cures, scoring ...

Standard Belgian Hare Book. Being A Clear and Concise Treatise on the Belgian Hare; its origin, kinds, growth of industry, sanitation and construction of the rabbitry, selection of stock, care of the young, feeding, diseases and their cures, scoring ...

By: Capps, M. D.

Price: $474.38

Publisher: Chicago, The Henneberry Company: 1901

Seller ID: Books009693

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

151 pages, plus Henneberry catalogue at rear. Green cloth with titles in silver to front and spine. Illustrated with photographic reproductions. Binding sound, hinges secure. Hand written index on final leaf; else unmarked. Small chip to lower corner of page 151 with no loss to text. Rare.
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Barefoot Days

By: Cayford, E.H. (Elmer Howard)

Price: $34.38

Publisher: Saskatoon, Sask., Western Producer Book Service: 1974

Seller ID: Books006264

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

137pp. The story of the Cayford family, who immigrated to the Bow River Valley in I902 from the United States. The story of homesteading and ten children growing up on the Prairies is told by Elmer Cayford, the third of the four older boys who moved to the Northwest Territories with their parents Howard and Alice. After their first succesful establishment of a homestead, they and other ranchers were forced off their quarter sections by a Chicago meat packing syndicate. The family finally settled in the Manitou Lake District, where the children were among the first pupils at the Wells Schoo...
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Image for The American Gardener : A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying Out of Gardens, On the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; and On the Propagation and Cultivation of the Several Sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Flowers

The American Gardener : A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying Out of Gardens, On the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; and On the Propagation and Cultivation of the Several Sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Flowers

By: Cobbett, William

Price: $199.38

Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary & Co.: 1851

Seller ID: Books011909

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

230 pages, and ten leaves of ads at rear. Four full-page plates. Complete, in attractive publisher's binding, with J. & J. L. Gihon at foot of spine. Closed tear and 1852 inscription to front free endpaper; title page foxed, light foxing throughout; binding sound. Bookseller's ticket of Wm. Murray, Lancaster, PA.
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Cranberry Culture [U.S. Department of Agriculture; Farmers' Bulletin No. 176]

By: Corbett, L. C.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 1903

Seller ID: Books012383

Binding: Side stapled

Condition: Very Good

20 pages. Illustrated. Staples rusted but holding fine.
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Cherries [Central Experimental Farm; Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Bulletin No. 17]

By: Craig, John

Price: $199.38

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Richard Wolfenden: 1903

Seller ID: Books012385

Binding: Side stapled

Condition: Very Good

20 pages. Illustrated. Small embossed library blindstamp to first and second leaf; call number bottom left first leaf; else unmarked.
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Irish Agricultural Production Its Volume and Structure

By: Crotty, Raymond D.

Price: $44.00

Publisher: Cork, Cork University Press: 1966

Seller ID: Books004874

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xv, 384pp. Some pencil notes and underlining, previous owner's name to front end paper, dust jacket worn at extremities.
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The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed [Volumes I through VIII; 1788-1794. 389 plates]

By: Curtis, William

Price: $5,843.75

Publisher: London, Couchman and Fry: 1794

Seller ID: Books010222

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

The first eight volumes of this impressive botanical publication in unsophisticated contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards. Volume I lacks frontispiece portrait; thereafter: 389 of 390 plates called for [plate 119 folding; plate 120 not coloured], lacking plate 133 in Volume III [Hyacinthus Comosus - the description leaf is present, the plate evidently not bound in]. Alphabetical listing of plates in manuscript to pastedown of each volume. Boards rubbed, leather worn and joints split, with play to some boards; upper board of II nearly detached. Textblocks firm, contents clean, colour...
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The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed [Volume XI; 1797. 88 plates]]

By: Curtis, William

Price: $893.75

Publisher: London, Stephen Couchman: 1797

Seller ID: Books010223

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

The eleventh volume of this impressive botanical publication in unsophisticated contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards. All plates present: numbered 541 through 628. Alphabetical listing of plates in manuscript to front free endpapers (with ereoneous notation that 4 plates are missing). Boards rubbed, leather worn, both boards nearly detached. Textblock firm, contents clean, colours brilliant. Customers overseas please contact us for an accurate shipping quote.
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Rural Canada: Structure and Change [Canadian Studies, Vol. 3]

By: Dasgupta, Satadal

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Lewiston NY / Queenston ON, Edwin Mellen Press: 1988

Seller ID: Books012007

ISBN: 0889461961

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xv, 215 pages. Former owner's name plate to front pastedown. Clean and unmarked, in sound binding.
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Contributions Toward the Improvement of Agriculture in Nova-Scotia

By: Dawson, J. W.

Price: $171.88

Publisher: Halifax, Richard Nugent: 1856

Seller ID: Books010247

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

280 pages. Brown cloth stamped in blind; gilt titles to spine. Chipped at head and foot of spine; upper joint split for 2 inches from foot. Binding is sound. Uneven tanning to leaves, some foxing and intermittent foxing and a few stains. Old inscription to front free endpaper.
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Image for The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; or The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally; With Descriptions of all the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country

The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; or The Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally; With Descriptions of all the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in this Country

By: Downing, A. J.

Price: $182.25

Publisher: New York, John Wiley: 1852

Seller ID: Books012877

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xiv, 594 pages. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine sunned to brown; foxing throughout; early ownership signature to front free endpaper and title page. Binding is sound.
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Small Farms, A Practical Treatise Intended for Persons Inexperienced in Husbandry

By: Doyle, Martin [William Hickey]

Price: $171.88

Publisher: London and New York, G. Routledge & Co.: 1856

Seller ID: Books011532

Binding: limp cloth

Condition: Fair

xi, 116 pages. Sixth thousand. A worn copy of an early issue. Limp linen-backed wrap nearly detached; first signature loose; contents leaf detached; endpapers stained.
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The Country Dyer's Assistant

By: Ellis, Asa Jr.

Price: $584.38

Publisher: Brookfield, MA, E. Merriam & Co.: 1798

Seller ID: Books011565

Binding: leather

Condition: Fair

viii, [9]-139, [4]. Full leather. Front and rear free endpaper and errata present. Binding sound but: LACKING two leaves [pp. 65-8], repair to final 4 leaves of text, final leaf of Index with loss. Contemporary ownership inscriptions front and rear; leaves toned and spotted; occasional ink (or dye) splash - in one instance [p. 96] obscuring text. Please consult photos. The first book on dying printed in North America.
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Manual of Agriculture for the School, the Farm, and the Fireside

By: Emerson, George B. and Charles L. Flint

Price: $199.38

Publisher: Boston, Swan, Brewer & Tileston: 1862

Seller ID: Books010600

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vi, 306 pages. Brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt to front; spine faded and (likely silverfish) chipped. Binding is sound. Owner's signature to front free endpaper dated 1862. 3 pencil lines to margin of Preface; thereafter unmarked, and suspiciously clean considering the subject matter.
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The Growing Question: Answers to Your Gardening Problems [signed]

By: Fillmore, Roscoe

Price: $130.63

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1927

Seller ID: Books010257

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xix, 357 pages. Jacket with large chip off front panell, rubbing, spine stained and sunned. Inscribed by the author Xmas 1957 in Centreville, Nova Scotia. Below that a later inscription from the recipient to a new owner. Binding sound and contents clean.
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