Search Results: Titles starting with P from J. A. Lascelles & Sons

London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster Row, 1785. Second Edition. 1/2 Calf. Good +. 8º., 20cm.; 164 pp.; Marlbed boards, pastedowns and end papers, all edges blue stain; Calf corners redone and spine rebacked, foredge worn through. Very good interior. First published 1780. Includes the publisher's adverts. included with 1st edition on pp. 161-164.

Northampton: Printed And Published By T. E. Dicey, 1837. Second Edition. Pebbled Paper covered boards. Very good. 8º, 18 cm.; 106 pp.

Edinburgh: Perinted for W Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. 1st Edition. Full calf. Good. 8º, 21cm.; x, 493 pp.; vol. 2 only.; covers rubbed, loss to leather at head of spine, fr. hinge cracked but holding.

Edinburgh: Printed for W Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. 1st Edition. Full calf. Very good. 8º, 21cm.; 4 vols. (bound in 6): xxiv, 412pp; x, 493pp.; xxiv, 357pp; [388pp.]; xxxii, 390pp.; [118pp.]; Vols.I-II, full calf, Vols. III-VI, original publisher's boards with titles on spine in contemp. mss;. Wight was regarded as a highly innovative and efficient tenant farmer on the Cockburn estate at Ormiston. At the instigation of Henry Home, Lord Kames, he was appointed in 1773 to survey the corn farms under the control of the commissioners to manage the annexed estates. Wight undertook two surveys of the estates in July and August 1773 and 1774. The commissioners were so pleased with the results that they subsequently engaged Wight on an annual basis to undertake general surveys of Scotland for the purpose of both recording and disseminating good farming practice. His findings were published by the commissioners as Present State of Husbandry in Scotland (1778-84). In nine… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed By C. Stewart, Printer To The Society; For T. Cadell Jun. And W. Davies, London, And William Creech, Edinburgh, 1799. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 21cm.; cxxi, 394 pp.; vol. 1 only (of 6); bookplate, small patch of leather worn through on rear board, else very good.

London: Edward Allde, 1593. 8th Edition. Limp vellum. 4to, 19.3 cm.; [vi], 164, [viii], 92pp., illust.; Lacking title page to first section, all else complete; significant conservation treatment with infill on both the cover and within the text block, very minimal loss of text to foot of p.90., unidentified hide cover with repaired losses, original side stab binding with top two cords repaired; darkening to two knot garden designs; presented in custom clamshell box. Recognized as the first English gardening book as well as the first English book on bees. This copy with numerous 16th/17th C. ms. annotations to the margins as well as to the inside covers. First appearing in ca. 1558 under the title "A most briefe and pleasante treatise, teachying how to dresse, sowe and set a garden" Hyll improved and enlarged the text in 1563 and in 1568 changed the title to "The profitable arte of gardening..." , which included the seperately titled treatise on bees, as well as the treatise on grafting and planting… Read More

[Paris]: s.n., 1827. 1st Edition. concertina. Very good. Hand-colored expandable concertina peepshow connected with accordion bellows. Depicts the annual society promenade that occurred on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées. The publisher of the Optique series is unknown (Hyde).