Farm & Garden from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

[Chicago: F. S. Burch & Co, ??. Stapled booklet, sextodecimo (16 x 9 cm), [16] pages. FIRST EDITION. A pretty little advertising booklet on a not-very-pretty subject. The cover features several delicate illustrations of happy hogs eating eagerly at a trough and being dressed after slaughter, surrounded by a dainty border made to look like ears of corn. As… Read more about this item

Rochester, N.Y.: D. D. T. Moore, Union Buildings, 1864. Octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 454, [2] pages. Illustrated frontispiece and engravings in the text. Index. Publisher's advertisement at rear. Stated "Twenty-first edition". A thorough manual to the various breeds of sheep, the breeding and raising of sheep, and the nutritional and veterinary care of the same. Randall was also… Read more about this item

[St. Paul, Minn: The Farmer's Wife, 1920. Duodecimo, stapled in wrappers (16 x cm.), 31 pages. Illustrated throughout. "Reprinted from The Farmer's Wife" (cover title). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. The author, Mignon Quaw, was an extension specialist at Montana State College, daughter of Thomas B. Quaw, a Serbian capitalist, who founded Belgrade Montana. The author used plays and film as… Read more about this item

New York: William Wood & Co., 27 Great Jones Street, 1875. Thick octavo (22 x 15 cm.), vi, 576 pages. General Index and Index of Fruits. Chromolithograph frontispiece; profusely illustrated in the text. Eighth Edition, revised and augmented. The author states that the original edition of this work was published before the first edition of Downing's important Fruits and… Read more about this item

London: Country Life Ltd, 1927. Quarto (28.5 x 21.5 cm.), l, 262 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout in black and white; color frontispiece. Index. Sixth Edition, the last and best; originally published 1912. The English garden designer, horticulturalist, and author Gertrude Jekyll (pronounced "Jeekyl", 1843-1932) designed more than four hundred gardens, many with her collaborator, the architect Edwin Lutyens. Her… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton, 1851. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 216, pages. Twenty-five figures in the text. Index in English, French, and German. Later Edition, originally published in 1847 by J.C. Riker. A guide to growing vegetables, herbs and fruit in the 19th-century American garden. Includes alphabetical listing and description of varieties, garden tools, and cultivation in the garden… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., No. 25 Park Row, 1860. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), vii, 120 pages. Illustrated with ten plates containing black & white lithographs. Appendix. Later Printing; first issued in 1856. The Appendix lists prices realized for bushels of cranberries sold from 1850-1855. Interior contents clean and bright, bookplate, modest extremity wear. Publisher's dark… Read more about this item

Paris; Montpellier: Ch[arles] Delegrave et Ce Libraires-Éditeurs; Imprimerie Centrale du Midi Hamelin Frères, 1875. Bibliotèque agricole du Midi, 4. Small octavo (18.5 x 11.5 cm.), 451 pages. Illustrated. Fifth Edition. An unassuming handbook for gardeners, and at the same time a summation of horticultural knowledge by a leading pedagogue in the French tradition. Beginning with a calendar of activities… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 140 Fulton Street, 1857. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), vii, 120 pages. Illustrated with ten plates containing black & white lithographs. Appendix. Second Printing; first issued in 1856. The Appendix lists prices realized for bushels of cranberries sold from 1850-1855. This work by the Reverend Benjamin Eastwood, spurred an explosion of… Read more about this item

London: Printed by T.R. [i.e. Thomas Ratcliffe] and M.D. [i.e. Mary Daniel] for the Company of Stationers, 1672. Quarto (20 x 15 cm.), [148] pages. Pagination of final leaves of main text being mis-numbered. Signatures: A-T . Text in verse. Printers' names from Wing. A later (likely fourth) edition of just the second book on agriculture in the English… Read more about this item

Lakeville, Mass: [the nursery, 1905. Eight advertising circulars (size ranges from 42 x 29 to 11x17 cm.). Five of the circulars are illustrated with attractive woodcuts. Printed in dark red, lighter red, brownish purple, and black on various colored stocks. A group of circulars or handbills advertising the fruit trees and vines of O.K. Gerrish of Lakeville, Massachusetts. Gerrish… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; The New England Institute For Medical Research, 1966. Large octavo (24 x 17 cm.), xvi, 447 pages. Illustrated with over fifty full-color plates and hundreds of black and white photographs. Index; bibliography. FIRST EDITION. The classic work on strawberry fruit cultivation, from the giant of the field, after a lifetime of study and… Read more about this item

New York: Orange Judd Co, 1901. Octavo (19 x 12.8 cm.), 119, [9] pages. Advertisements. Later printing of this classic guide to cider making. Includes chapters on cider and apple juice, apple varieties, cider-making equipment, and technique. With a final section on using the "old method". Text-block age-toned; hinges tender. Some discoloration and light edge wear to the publisher's… Read more about this item

London: Dulau & Company, Ltd, 1929. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), vii, [1], 133, [3] pages. Illustrated Frontispiece. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, limited to one thousand copies, each SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (this is no. 978). A great classic of food writing, and an important book for all interested in northern tree fruits and berries. Also contains sections… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1906. Bulletin: Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station; no. 12. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23 x 14.5 cm.), 32 pages; ten pages of plates. Illustrated with black & white photographs. FIRST EDITION. A thorough examination of the state of the mango farming industry in Hawaii at the time, with attention paid to different varieties, etc. Some wear to… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Zeigler & McCurdy.., 1871. Octavo (22.7 x 15 cm.), 774 pages. Illustrated with one hundred forty-one engravings and two plates including the frontispiece, one in color. Later printing, originally issued by Zeigler in 1868. A practical encyclopedia of information on agriculture, stock raising, family medicine, fruit-culture. A bit of foxing throughout, text block and plates clean and sound;… Read more about this item

New York: James Miller, 647 Broadway, 1872. Octavo (19.3 x 13 cm.), 128, [8] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Later American printing, "from the Twelfth London Edition". A classic of early rustication literature, from the same American publisher that brought us Ten Acres Enough and How to Get a Farm. Our Farm..., with sections on cows, pigs, poultry, pigeons, butter-making, bread… Read more about this item

London: Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1830. Booklet, sewn on cords (22 x 14 cm.), 23 pages. FIRST EDITION. An additional issue was published the same year by Hinde of Lichfield. The author suggests that allotments be supplied to the poor so they might labor at growing some of their own food.… Read more about this item

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co, 1936. Thick octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), x, 1300 pages. Illustrated with two hundred fifty half-tones and five hundred line drawings. FIRST EDITION. "A single big volume that gives you the scope and contents of a whole shelf full of garden books." In green cloth, blind- and gilt-titled. A bit of wear… Read more about this item

New-York: Wiley and Putnam; J.P. Wright, Printer, 18 New Street, 1842. Small octavo (11 x 15 cm.), viii, 164 pages. Illustrated with four small black and white in-text drawings. Presumed FIRST & ONLY AMERICAN EDITION. Originally published in Glasgow by W.R. M'Phun. A thorough presentation on the art of rearing bees, pigeons, rabbits and canaries, based on the author's… Read more about this item