The American Kitchen-Gardener, Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Herbs, Together with Instruction for Forcing or Forwarding Vegetables Out of the Ordinary Season
by Bridgeman, Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Wood & Co., 1867. Published 1867. Hard to find guide for growing herbs and vegetables for home consumption, illustrated with engravings. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, 152 pages, advertisement for vegetable and flower seeds (Henry R. Dreer Co.) mounted to front pastedown. Covers heavily rubbed and spotted, corners and spine ends lightly frayed, internally better with good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with a name and town written boldly on the preliminary blank, no other markings. Externally fair, internally very good.. Half-Leather. Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016645
- Title
- The American Kitchen-Gardener, Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Herbs, Together with Instruction for Forcing or Forwarding Vegetables Out of the Ordinary Season
- Author
- Bridgeman, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Publisher
- William Wood & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1867
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- GARDENING HORTICULTURE VEGETABLES BOTANY KITCHEN GARDENS HERBS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Nature;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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