The root company (7 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Softcover. Stiff, textured yellow-brown paper covers, stapled at the fold, with blue and gold lettering on the front cover. Measures 6-3/4" x 9-3/4, 39 pages, in very good condition. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Catalogue contains information regarding the automatic counting devices that the company manufactures. Illustrations of the devices, including close-ups of important components, are accompanied by descriptions which give details regarding their construction, manufacture and operation, along with relevant specifications and physical dimensions. Covers show some rubbing, with light wear to edges and corners. Library markings on front cover and title page. Pages have toned lightly but evenly. The Root Company, a manufacturer of automatic counters, was based in Bristol, Connecticut. $20.…

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Booklet. Condizione: Fair. 114th Edition. 64 p. 24 cm. B&w product illustrations. Stapled paper covers. Staples rusting, spine torn in bottom half.First page discoloured. Tucked inside is an envelope, order form, bargain price list. Sellers of hives, screens, bee veils, bee gloves, honey pumps, bee books, complete starter kits.…

Vol. XLVI, No. 1-12. Medina, OH: January-December, 1918. 768 pages. Illustrated articles, packing & rail transportation, cartoons, recipes, advertisements. 9.5x6.5'', printed wrappers. Bit rubbed & soiled, G.

Full title: THE A B C AND X Y Z OF BEE CULTURE. A CYCLOPEDIA OF EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO THE CARE OF THE HONEYBEE: BEES, HIVES, HONEY, IMPLEMENTS, HONEY PLANTS, ETC. FACTS GLEANED FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THOUSANDS OF BEEKEEPERS, AND AFTERWARD VERIFIED BY THE AUTHORS. Front bord subtitle: "The A.I. Root Bee Library." 1929 printing ("213th Thousand" as stated upon title page; first published 1877 per OCLC). [16], 815 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.25cm. No dust jacket. Original dark boards; stamped lettering and centerpiece stamped honeybee vignette decorate front board; slender scuffing at edges and along board joints. Text block edges well toned with some foxing and small stains. front pastedown has two-line ink ownership inscription "Ben Burney Jr. | 1935." along with circa 1950s-1970s personal bookplate of daughter Marilyn B. Thompson [Marilyn Ruth Burney Thompson]. Strong foxing/toning to endpapers; small dark stain at top spine corners if several initial leaves; two lines of pencil notes on rear free endpaper verso; some foxing/toning to interior leaves. First and last quires slightly pulled; short splitting to surface paper at top of front hinge but binding remains firm. Double-column text with b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. A good copy of one of the classic apiology titles. *** Additionally laid-in a front endpapers is an original single-sided paper label, H 5 3/16 inches x L 6 1/4 inches, titled NOTHING IS BETTER FOR BREAKFAST THAN HOT CAKES AND HONEY GUARANTEED PURE AND FREE FROM BITTER-WEED BY BEN BURNEY, JR. CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MISS. Presumably intended to be applied to a box or jar but unused in that regard with some soiling/toning, faint creasing at bottom, and shallow wear along right margin. Label is printed in yellow, red, and black; bee and flower illustration on left with wooden hive body box and flower illustration on right. No date specified but probably circa 1930-1950. There is a Crystal Springs, Mississippi cemetery record for a Ben I. Burney [Ben Ike Burney] (1902-1993) whose dates overlap the label's estimated time frame. Online research regarding the Burney honey-apiary operation turns up nothing nor does an independent search of the Mississippi Secretary of State and Department of Agriculture archives. However a small and relatively local honeybee operation in 1930s-1940s rural Copiah County could have easily escaped government business/tax registration or agricultural inspection/certification. Depression-era agriculture product labels for central Mississippi - an area characterized by modest family farms and not the multi-thousand acre plantations of the state's Mississippi River region - are quite uncommon and are an interesting niche within the field of collectible advertising. …