Yesterday's Gardens: A History and Bibliography of Australian Gardening Books.
by Crittenden, Victor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0949910902
- ISBN 13
- 9780949910905
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Canberra: Mulini Press, 2002. 2nd ed.. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, pictorial cover, very good condition, black & white drawings, frontispiece, tiny dent spine edge. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 276 pp. Second (revised and enlarged) edition. Victor Crittenden provides a fascinating history of gardening books in Australia. The first part outlines the story of gardening books in Australia and the people who wrote them. Many of the introduced plants and flowers are identified, and the growing of native plants from the earliest times is referred to in this part. This enlarged edition now lists 206 Australian gardening books published before 1950. The second part of the book lists in detail all Australian gardening books from the first Gardening Guide in 1806 up until 1950, and gives a brief description of the contents of each book.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29723
- Title
- Yesterday's Gardens: A History and Bibliography of Australian Gardening Books.
- Author
- Crittenden, Victor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0949910902
- ISBN 13
- 9780949910905
- Publisher
- Mulini Press
- Place of Publication
- Canberra
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- reference, bibliography, australian history, gardening, literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- GARDENING & FLORA;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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