Books - "agriculture"
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An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agricuture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale-Insects (Coccididae)
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & motif to front board, patterned eps, 116pp + xxiii plates with descriptions on facing pages, VG- (mottled heavy fading to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, rubbing with slight loss of surface to board edges. some tanning to eps & page edges, owner's bookplate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Geo. Didsbury, Government Printer 1887
KEYWORDS: WM Maske New Zealand agriculture scale insects coccididae entomology ecology pests natural history
Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, or An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses (Fourth Edition) to which is added the Weeds of Agriculture
Octavo, half bound, marbled boards with dark blue lettering to black leather spine, six gilt decorated raised bands to spine, page edges stained red, 362pp, illus with beautiful hand-coloured plates, G+ (boards completely detached, lower 7cm of spine missing, heavy chaffing to boards, board corners, edges & spine, heavy fading to spine, owner's name in ink twice to front pastedown, some tanning to page edges, occasional light foxing, ink from all illustrations off-set to adjacent pages). Text block /contents in much much better condition than ranking given would indicate.
PUBLISHER: Ridgways (n/d) circa 1825
KEYWORDS: George Sinclair John Duke of Bedford horticulture agriculture weeds grasses farming feed food animal husbandry
The Story of Birkenhead
Ex library, oblong imperial octavo softcover (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Birken City Council 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Margaret McClure New Zealand history early settlers' maori culture agriculture
Strangers in the Wilderness
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Minerva 1967
KEYWORDS: specials L. S. Rickard New Zealand history agriculture farming pioneering settlers
Tides of Hokianga
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Wingfield 1956
KEYWORDS: specials Celia Manson Cecil Manson Hokianga New Zealand history agriculture farming dairy industry
Toil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England 1780-1890
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: specials Christiana Payne England English agriculture farming agricultural history
The History of Eltham, New Zealand: Cradle of the Dairy Export Industry
Octavo softcover (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Eltham Borough Council 1959
KEYWORDS: specials H. J. Andrews Eltham New Zealand history agriculture dairy industry pioneering
Some Practical Information on Sheep-farming, Fencing, Concrete Culverts, Axecraft, etc
Inscribed & signed by author with small drawing of bird, ex library, octavo, green card covers with gilt lettering to front cover, 159pp, illus, VG- (browning to spine, wear to spine extrems, light creasing & scuffing to cover corners, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: NZ Tablet Co (n/d)
KEYWORDS: A McKenny New Zealand agriculture handbook sheep farming fencing farmers
Farewell Colonialism: The New Zealand International Exhibition Christchurch 1906-07
Super octavo Softcover (Nr Fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press Ltd 1998
KEYWORDS: specials John Mansfield Thomson New Zealand History Christchurch Agriculture Machinery Visual Arts art Music exhibits
The Official Record: New Zealand Industrial Exhibition 1885
Ex library, two sections loose, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, black decorative rule to spine & front board, two gilt embossed 'medals' to front board, xii + folding map + 230pp + 123pp, G+ (pages vii to x loose, pages 21 to 28 loose, relatively light library markings, some staining to boards, light bruising & fraying to spine exxtrems & board corners, small gouge to front board lower edge, light tanning to page edges, pen scribble to one of front board 'medals', label residue stain to front pastedown, closed tear to frontispiece map, moderate creasing to page edges of loose section,
PUBLISHER: Geoge Didsbury Government Printer 1886
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Industrial Exhibition industry manufacturing resources art education wool fruit agriculture
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and teh Technical Arts in Plates Selected from L'Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers
Two-volume set, folio, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxx + 485plates in the two vols, illus, VG (moderate foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading, some soiing esp to rear)
PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 1950
KEYWORDS: Charles C Gillespie Denis Diderot pictorial encyclopaedia trades industry graphic art agriculture foundry forge metalwork glass masonry carpentry textiles paper printing leather gold jewellery fashion
The Biodynamic Farm: Agriculture in the Service of the Earth and Humanity
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Anthroposophic Press 1989
KEYWORDS: Herbert H Koepf agriculture biodynamic farming ecology environment
The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers iwth red & yellow lettering, viii + 228pp, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to covers, light wear to extrems of covers, light foxing to page edges and end pages)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin/Trade Union History Project 1990
KEYWORDS: John E Martin New Zealand agriculture farming shearers labourers musterers history
Country Calendar: Stories from Our Rural Heartland
Large quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards, green eps, 191pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2016
KEYWORDS: Matt Philp Rob Suisted New Zealand photography photographs Country Calendar rural life agriculture farming memoirs
A History of the English Agricultural Labourer
Ex library, hardcover octavo (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: P. S. King & Son 1908
KEYWORDS: English England agriculture agricultural labourer farming history
A History of the English Agricultural Labourer 1870-1920
Ex library, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: PS King & Son Ltd 1920
KEYWORDS: England English agriculture agricultural labourer history
New Zealand Exhibition 1865: Reports and Awards of The Jurors and Appendix
Imperial octavo, green cloth-covered light card covers with title labels mounted to spine, vii + 531pp, VG- (some bruising & fraying to cover edges + corners & spine extrems, some staining to covers, moderately heavy browning to page edges, annotation in pencil to eps, occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: Commissioners / Mills, Dick & Co 1866
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Exhibition mining metallurgy geology coals wool timber livestock agriculture
The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness
Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal dewcription to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Essential Books 1992
KEYWORDS: agriculture agribusiness business farming economics
Sovereign Butter: Seventy-Five Years of Dairying in Golden Bay,
Sigend by author, Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: The Golden Bay Dairy Factory Co. 1977
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand agriculture Golden Bay history
Hollyford Muster 1948
Imperial octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Sylvia D Donaldson-Law 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history agriculture horses