Title kitchen garden (5 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. 26pp. Comb-bound wrappers. Wrappers with some toning, foxing, and abrading, sound and about very good. Cookbook/ad for a countertop device for sprouting seeds. Prints four pages of information on the process, a two-page table of contents, and over 50 recipes (almost all vegetarian), including Wheat Sprout Chili, Sprout Roast, Egg Foo Yung, Vitality Cocktail, and Sprouted What Pancakes. "The proof is in the sprouting." Seven copies in *OCLC*. …

8vo. 7 x 4.75 inches. [vi], including advertisements + 252 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's list. Bound in original green cloth with black titles. Advertisement endpapers. Some wear to extremities, including corners and head of spine. foxing of fore edge, but otherwise a very good copy. Early Amateur Gardener inscription on front pastedown. Illustrated by engraved text figures. Decorated by contents pages and headpiece vignettes and by publisher's device on title page. One of the enterprises of the publisher, Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-78), who also issued The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine and The Boy's Own Magazine. He encouraged his wife, Isabella (1836-65) to write the Beeton's Book of Household Management, which he first published in parts 1859-61, before its subsequent success as a book. Beeton sold his titles for a while to Ward, Lock, but continued to produce them. In 1872 there was a falling out with the firm over his anti-monarchist views After two court cases concerning the use of the Beeton name he regained his independence in 1875, but without his titles. GARDENING HORTICULTURE GARDENING MANUALS 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED GARDENING.…

[title continued]: together with the management of vineyards, and the methods of making wine in England : in which likewise are included, directions for propagating and improving, from real practice and experience, pasture lands and all sorts of timber trees. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence. The fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 14 folding engraved plates. Thick 4to (11 x 8 3/4 x 2 5/8 inches), unpaginated. Contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt ruled on raised bands with burgundy lettering piece. Headbands slightly chipped, joints cracked but firm on cords. A very nice copy and clean internally.…

Pamphlet. Condizione: VG/NO DUSTJACKET. Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles and Company. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1870. Pamphlet. Color frontis and additional foldout color plate . Sm 4to., 120 pp., Few turned down page corners. . Black & White/Color Plates (illustratore).

SALE NOTICE. 7.75 x 12.75 inches. [4] pp. Sale notice originally folding to front title which is darkened. Traces of former folds, one of which has tear and Sellotape burn neatly repaired; otherwise a good copy. The identity of this property is not certain. It is probably not the still existing Starkey's Castle. a medieval manor house which in the 1790s would have been a farm with outbuildings as it was in its 1846 sale. From the sale particulars it sounded a more modern dwelling suitable for the tastes of the late eighteenth century: 'the Premises have been built in an uncommon substantial Manner, neatly finished, and disposed on a most eligible convenient Plan.forming a most complete Residence for a Genteel Family.' KENT SALE CATALOGUE KENT - ARCHITECTURE EPHEMERA 18TH CENTURY KENT.…