Agriculture - Forestry
19 items found
Admiraal, K. [AND Hugo de Vries]
De kankerziekte der boomen. Met een voorwoord van Prof. Hugo de Vries. Verhandeling, bekroond door de Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde. Met 5 platen.
Amsterdam, M. M. Olivier, 1889. 8vo (23.7 x 25.3 cm). xii, 103 pp.; five lithographed plates (of which four in colour lithography, including one very large, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Slightly later blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
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[Tobacco]
Premier Congrès Scientifique Internationale du Tabac / First International Scientific Tobacco Congress. Paris - Bergerac Septembre 1955.
Paris, CORESTA,1956. Two volumes in three. Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.8 cm). Two full colour frontispieces (mounted), lxxx, 803; 10 pp. numerous text figures, 15 plates. Original uniform printed cloth (both main volumes), and blind blue wrappers (CORESTA list of founders, members, programs and statutes). Marbled endpapers.
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Goube, [I. J. C.] [AND] Mézièrs, N. la Camus de
Traité de la physique végétale des bois, et des principales opérations forestières, avec le modèle des actes à rédiger; terminé par le tableau des proportions qui doivent avoir les bois de construction pour la marine rapportées au calcul decimal. [WITH] Traité de la force des bois. Ouvrage essentiel, qui donne ley moyens de procurer plus de solidité aux edifices, de connoître la bonne & la mauvaise qualité des bois, de calculer leur force, & de ménager près de moitié sur ceux qu'on emploie ordinairement. Il enseigne aussi la maniere la plus avantageuse d'exploiter les forêts, d'en faire l'estimation sur pied, &c.
Paris, Goujon, 1801 [AND] Paris, Le Camus de Mézieres, Benoît Morin, 1782. Two works in one. 8vo (20.2 x 13.0 cm). xii, 326 pp.; two folded tables. [AND] 376, [ii] pp.; two engraved plates of which one larger, folded. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Freyer, C. F.
Die schädlichsten Schmetterlinge Deutschlands, für Forstmänner, Lehrer, Oekonomen, Gartenbesitzer und Volks-Schulen.
Augsburg, privately published, 1839. 8vo (20.0 x 12.0 cm). xii, 89 pp.; 12 hand-coloured folded engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Pitasch, J. [AND] J. Zenker
Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. XII. Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht). [AND] XIII. Forstwirtschaft (Forstbenützung).
Wien, Anton Hartinger & Sohn, 1867-1869. Two very large, oblong folded, chromithographed sheets, (58.7 x 71.3 cm each) in uniform printed pockets (20.5 x 12 cm each).
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Monzen, K. and others
Saito Ho-On Kai. (The Saito Gratitude Foundation) Monographs 1 - 5. [AND] Reprints.
Sendai, The General Department of Scientific research Saito Ho-On Kai, 1927-1931. Two volumes in two. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform blue grained half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
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Prain, D.
The species of Dalbergia of South-Eastern Asia.
Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Press [for the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta], 1904. Folio (37.0 x 29.0 cm). 120 pp.; 91 lithographed plates. Original portfolio with black half cloth over printed boards. Handwritten label on the spine.
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Latreille, P. A.
Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Insectes.
Paris, Agasse, 1818. Folio (28.5 x 21.4 cm). 165 engraved plates (numbered 1-165). Contemporary full tree calf. Boards with gilt-ruled borders, spine with rich Louis XVI-style gilt-ornamented red and green morocco labels. Marbled endpapers.
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Box, H. E.
Typescripts, correspondence and papers.
Various places and publishers, 1923-1953. 4to and 8vo. Over 60 items of various size and shape. Many thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including some original photos. Preserved in two similar cardboard folders with punch holes.
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