Natural History / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. The date palm and its culture. ... (Reprint from Yearbook of Department of Agriculture 1900).
[Washington, Government printing office, 1900]. With 9 plates with black and white photographic reproductions.
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(2) SWINGLE, Walter Tennyson. The date palm and its utilization in the southwestern states.Washington, Government printing office, 1904. With a wood engraved device of the United States department of agriculture on title-page, 21 (of 22) plates (including 2 chromolithographed maps) and 10 illustrations in text.
(3) FAIRCHILD, David Grandison. Persian Gulf dates and their introduction into America.Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 4 plates with reproductions of photographs.
(4) KEARNEY, Thomas Henry. Date varieties and date culture in Tunis.Washington, Government printing office, 1903. With the same wood engraved device on title-page and 10 plates with reproductions of photographs.
4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern blue cloth, each work with its original printed paper wrappers bound in. I-V, [1 blank], 453-490; 155, [1 blank]; 32; 112 pp. Full description

THORY, Claude Antoine. Monographie ou histoire naturelle du genre groseillier contenant la description, l' histoire, la culture et les usages de toutes les groseilles connues.
Paris, P. Dufart, 1829. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing the portrait of the author and 24 lithographed full-page plates by A.M. Canneva, L.A. Canneva and A. Pascal, printed by Langlumé, including 23 contemporary handcoloured. Original printed paper wrappers. [4], XVI, 152 pp. Full description

TORÉN, Olof. Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c. depuis le prémier avril 1750. jusqu'au 26. juin 1752.Milan, Les Freres Reycends, 1771. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. 92 pp. Full description

VOIT, Johann Michael. Handbuch der landwirtschaftlichen Baukunst.
Augsburg, Von Jenisch und Stagesche Verlagshandlung, 1840. 2 volumes. With numerous illustrations and figures of detailed construction-plans of all sorts of farm buildings on 20 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary half blue decorative cloth, marbled paper sides, gold-stamped spines. XVIII, 292; X, 294 pp. Full description

WALLERIUS, Johan Gottschalk (praeses) and Gustaf Adolf GYLLENBORG. Agriculturae fundamenta chemica, Åkerbrukets chemiska grunder, ...
Uppsala, 1761. 4to. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [4], 321, [1] pp. Full description