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California: Prima Publishing, 1992. 4to. 154pgs. Very Good+ softcover, shallow bump to top rear corner, otherwise clean and unmarked. Color photography throughout. A thorough treatment on all aspects of natural organic vegetable gardening without pesticides, fertilizers or herbicides, including design, soil preparation, seed starting, seasonal crop planning, and perennial vegetables. Chapters: Breaking New Ground, Earth Care, By Design, Spring Steps, Trouble, Sow Cool, Lettuce Alone, Cultivates Coles, The Root of the Matter, Tropical Fruits, Three Sisters of Life, Fruit of the Vine, Second Season, Green Exotica, All About Alliums, Kitchen-Garden Perennials, The Fruitful Season, Appendix, Index. By the author of The Harrowsmith Illustrated Book of Herbs. ISBN 1559582022. Book#2596.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Scanlan, John. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York and Chicago: Potter, Ainsworth and Co., 1874. viii.405 pgs.+ 2 world maps. Good to Very Good condition original cloth hardcover. Overall wear and rubbing to edges and corners. Light foxin and penciled notes on front endpapers. Endpaper wear to rear hinge, binding sound. Colored frontis plate with intact protective tissue. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and figured, two bicolored world maps in rear showing variation and distribution of atmospheric pressure [circa 1874 climate]. Natural philosopy in this era was inclusive of several disciplines of the physical sciences, hence sections on mechanics, sound, light, heat, electricity. Contents: I. Mechanics: Pressure, Motion, Machines and Sources of Mechanical Power; II. Sound: Nature and Propagation of Sound, Musical Instruments; III. Light: Nature and Propagation of Light, Optical Instruments; IV. Heat: Nature and Propagation of Heat, Effects of heat on Bodies, Thermal Instruments; V.Electricity: MAgnetism, Nature and… Read More