Category: Gardening

Sacramento County Annual Spring Flower Show, The Second One, April Twenty-five and Twenty-six, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-five

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Holden Pub. Co. : 1925

Seller ID: 024522

Condition: Very Good

Original brochure for the 1925 Sacramento County Annual Spring Flower Show. 4" x 9." Six pages (one leaf folded in thirds and printed on all sides), complete. A couple of small black-and-white floral decorations on front, complete. Brochure is very clean and intact except for tiny wrinkles throughout, a small closed tear on spine not affecting text, and a few stray marks. A Very Good copy. Brochure for the 1925 Sacramento County Annual Spring Flower Show. Inside panels detail the rules for participation and entry. This show includes forty-three classes to be judged as well as an additi...
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Third Sacramento County Annual Spring Flower Show to be held at April 24th and 25th, 1926, State Armory, 12th and W. Sts. Under the Auspices of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and The Sacramento County Garden Club

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sacramento, CA, News Publishing Co. : 1926

Seller ID: 024523

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Original brochure for the third Sacramento County Annual Spring Flower Show in 1926. 4" x 9." Six pages (one leaf folded in thirds and printed on all sides), complete. Back panel only has copyright information. A couple of small black-and-white floral decorations on front, complete. Brochure is very clean and intact except for a few tiny wrinkles, slight rubbing on back, slight darkening on front, and a few stray marks. A Very Good copy. Brochure for the 1926 Sacramento County Annual Spring Flower Show. Inside panels detail the rules for participation and entry. This show includes for...
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True Temper Garden Book. How to Have Finer Flowers, Vegetables, Lawns

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cleveland Ohio, The American Fork & Hoe Co. : 1937

Seller ID: 017568

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green, black, white and orange illustrated wrapper with a garden scene on the front cover. 6 X 9 inches. 112 pages which include 16 pages of garden notes in the back. Numerous black and white illustrations. Topics discussed in this copy are, planning the home grounds, the soil: foundation of gardening success, preparing the seed bed, hotbeds and cold frames for early plants, transplanting seedling plants, when to plant outdoors, the vegetable garden, planting and care, cultural directions for 56 garden vegetables and small fruit, flower gardening, lawns, pruning fruit and ornamental t...
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U.S. Department Of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 829 Asparagus

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., United States Department of Agriculture : 1927

Seller ID: 018416

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original black and white wrapper with black lettering and photograph on the front cover. 5 3/4 X 9 inches. 17 pages. Copy contains 11 black and white photographs. Contents in this issue, extent of the industry, soils for asparagus and their preparation, manures and fertilizers, growing asparagus roots, planting asparagus roots, cultivation of asparagus, care after the cutting season, duration of a plantation, harvesting and packing, asparagus rust, asparagus varieties, insects, canning, forcing and cost of production and returns. Copy is clean and complete. Binding is tight.
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Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. I.---1878.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY, James Vick : 1878

Seller ID: 021235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume I, complete. First edition in book form. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Lightly impressed decorations on front and back covers. 6 3/8" x 9 3/8." Color plates and black and white illustrations, complete. Covers are very clean and intact. Pages are clean and intact overall but there is light dampstaining throughout but limited to the bottom margin. Offsetting on pages facing the color plates. Tear on Pages 257-258; text is still present but a bit difficult to read. One color plate facing Page 129 is loose. This book contains a variety...
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Wild Flowers of Northern California, Oregon and Washington

By: "Outdoor" Franklin, Richfield Road Scout

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA?, Richfield Oil Company : 1933

Seller ID: 020750

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored wrapper with staple binding and an illustration of a scenic Californian landscape on both covers. 3" x 6." Twenty-five pages, complete. Multiple reprinted photographs and illustrations in black and white and color, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Staples very slightly rusted internally. A fine copy. This is a promotional souvenir booklet by the Richfield Oil Company. Richfield encourages readers to take a sightseeing tour by car to see wildflowers along the West Coast. The inside of the front cover advertises the company's Richfi...
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Original Art - "River Gums"

By: Abbott, Ernest E.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 024756

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original black-and-white print, a drypoint, by Ernest E. Abbott. The print shows a picturesque Australian scene of a river lined with the titular gum trees. Artist's pencil inscription and signature below the printed area: "River Gums, A. 79, Ernest E. Abbott." No date, circa 1920s-1939. Print with margins: 12 1/4" x 7 3/4." Printed area: "11 1/4" x 6 1/4." Print is virtually pristine and intact except for age toning on front and age toning and offsetting on back. A Fine copy. Ernest E. Abbott (1888-1973) was an English-Australian artist and art teacher who specialized in printmaking a...
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California Farm Tenancy and Methods of Leasing.

By: Adams, R.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, College of Agriculture : 1923

Seller ID: 9684

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Agricultureal Experiment Station, Circular No. 272. 48 pages, map, paper wrapper. Covers status of farm tenancy in California; leasing practices for farming, dairies, livestock ranges, poultry plants, various crops; legal requirements and framework; provisions for various types of leases. Discusses leasing methods of Sacramento and San Joaquin Deltas.
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Original Duck Stamp Print with Stamp - "Gadwall"

By: Allen, Charles

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Voyageur Art : 1983

Seller ID: 015699

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

No. 1077 of 1990 signed by artist. Includes 1983 Nevada Department of Wildlife Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Gadwall ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, Colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions.
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Original Duck Stamp Print with Stamp - "Green-Winged Teall"

By: Allen, Charles

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Voyageur Art : 1983

Seller ID: 015700

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

No. 579 of 750 signed by artist. Includes 1983 California Duck Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Green-Winged Teal ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions.
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Apple Growing in California.

By: Allen, F.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, Agricultural Experiment Station. : 1937

Seller ID: 9897

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Bulletin 425, revised. 95 pages pamphlet; illustrations, tables; wraps. Goes into all the areas of cultivation of apples along with the results of studies carried out by the university. Deals also with the wide varities from Winter Bananas to Tompkins King, where to plant them and best ways of marketing them localy and nationally. Good overview of the state of apple production in California during the 1930s and what technology was envolved.
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A Cytological Study of Heterothallism in Puccinia Graminis.

By: Allen, Ruth F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Secretary of Agriculture : 1930

Seller ID: 9725

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprited from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUREAL RESEARCH, 40 (#7 1930), pages 585-614, gray-green wrapper, illustrations, bibliography. A summation concerning heterothallism in the fungi thro 1930 with extensive bibliography.
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Con Nodule Bacteria of Leguminous Plants Fox Atmospheric Nitrogen in the Absence of the Host?

By: Allison, F.E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Secretary of Agriculture : 1929

Seller ID: 9727

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 29 (#12 December 15, 1929). Gray wrapper, pages 893-924, tables, bilbiography. Examination of the literauture dealing with Nitrogen-fixation of leguminous plants up through 1929.
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The Primer of Irrigation

By: Anderson, D. H.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, The D. H. Anderson Publishing Co. : 1905

Seller ID: 024053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 257 pages, complete. A few black-and-white plates and illustrations, complete. One additional page in back advertises the company, Morris Machine Works. A small leaf of paper is laid in the back with a printed ad for other books on "Irrigation and Drainage." Former owner's signature ("A. S. Fleet") in pencil written in top margin of title page. Covers are very clean and intact except for the front, which has fairly extensive dampstaining in the form of all-over speckling and darkening toward the top...
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The Garden Book of California

By: Angier, Belle Sumner; Nash, John Henry (Printer)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Paul Elder and Company : 1906

Seller ID: 025098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Printed by John Henry Nash at the Tomoye Press. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with black lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. 6" x 8 1/2." 141 pages, complete. Twenty black-and-white photographic plates, complete. Black-and-white page decorations by Spencer Wright. List of illustrations (plates) in front. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning and slight bumping to deckled fore-edge. Covers are very clean and intact except for some darkening or soiling along spine and a few shallow surface cracks on front outer joi...
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A Calendar of Wildflowers 1980.

By: Anonymous

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Placerville, Calif., The Blackwood Press. : 1979

Seller ID: 9649

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Number 46 of an edition of 200 copies issued. Tied gathering of twelve months, plus title page and colophon page (4 1/2 x 9 inch). Wildflowers are printed in multiple colors from linoleum blocks cut by the printer, Dr. Edmund E. Simpson.
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A Wildflower Calendar 1982.

By: Anonymous

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Placerville, Calif., The Blackwood Press : 1981

Seller ID: 9650

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Issued in an edition of 180 copies. Spiral bound copy on stiff (65 wt) paper, 4 pages plus title and colophon sheets. Multicolor flowers printed from linoleum blocks cut by the printer. Also contains an extra copy of the Lupine page, 1982, and the Dogwood page for 1984 (7 1/2 x 11 inch).
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Farmers' Bulletins: Department Bulletins, Circulars, Agriculture Yearbooks.

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Department of Agriculture. : 1920

Seller ID: 9848

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

50 pages; pamphlet. 'Price List 16'. Listing of publications available for sale from the Department of Agriculture. They include: Department Annual Reports, Department Bulletins, Department Circulars, Farmers' Bulletins, and Yearbooks.
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Inspection of Insecticides and Fungicides, 1920

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Geneva, New York, New York Agricultural Experiment Station : 1920

Seller ID: 016732

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

New York Agricultural Extension Service, Bulletin No. 481. Staple bound booklet, paper wrapper. Previous owner's signature on front, otherwise very good condition. 18 pages of tables, giving the results of the chemical analysis of various insecticides and fungicides.
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Le Bon Jardinier Almanach Pour L'Annee 1857: Contenant; Les Principes Generaux de Culture; L'Indication, Mois Par Mois, Des Travaux a Faire Dans Les Jardins; etc.

By: Anonymous

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Librairie Agricole De La Maison Rustique. 1857. Paris. : 1857

Seller ID: 1795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Quarter leather with marbled boards. Illustrations. English title, The Good Gardener, an Almanac. Water stain upper right from title page through XLIX. Quite foxed.
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Category: Gardening