A VIEW OF THE CULTIVATION OF FRUIT TREES And The Management Of Orchards And Cider; With...Native And Foreign Apple, Peaches, Plums And Cherries, Cultivated In The Middle States Of America
M. Carey & Sons: Philadelphia, 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #22-0346
Seventy-six fruit plates, two charts, 8.5 x 5.5", full leather, spine gilt ruled, red spine label with gilt lettering, 253pp + index. Covers are worn, scuffed/scraped, edgeworn, spotting, offsetting, lacks about 1/2" of spine tip, outer/inner hinges cracked, rear cover loose, scattered staining (mainly first few pp), toning, edge tears, small hole in lower margin else good. Binding tight. Pencil names of Wm. Oblenis, Clarkstown, Rockland Co. Possibly the same William Oblenis who opened the first general store in West Nyack, Rockland County, New York. Some of the varieties: Cathead, Irish, Sheepnose-apples; Red Bergamont, Marquise-Pears; Lemon Peach, Columbia-Peaches. Also tells you how to make cider. This is the first American book that covers pomology exclusively. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE.
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