AGRICULTURE from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

1904. Paperback. Good + overall. The 20th revised catalogue of agricultural implements and machinery for New Zealand farmers. With photo illustration on p39 of a Reid & Gray chaff cutter in Darling Downs Queensland and list of 48 purchasers. 8 1/2 x 11", green illustrated paper covers, staplebound, 84pp. Title in gilt on front. Spine chipped and holding.… Read more about this item

West Grove, Pennsylvania: Dingee & Conard Company, 1892. A home gardener's catalog from the Dingee & Conard Company in business since 1875, complete with two color plates of lilies and a folded 4pp handbill for roses. 6 3/4 x 10", 110pp, color paper wraps, staplebound, 2 color plates, many b&w illustrations, detached, otherwise clean.

1847. Very good condition. Shipment of 1789 Pine apples shipped by Samuel Johnson from the Harbour Islands (Bahamas) to Philadelphia via the British Schooner Magnet, with R. Roberts as its master. 7 1/2 x 12", 4pp, manuscript with signatures and red Customs stamp.

Poughkeepsie, NY, 1873. Otherwise good condition. A price list including the "Walter" Grape, The Downing Gooseberry, Hardy Grapes Ornamental Deciduous, Fruit Trees, Evergreens, Flowering Shrubs, Roses and more. With a stamped and franked envelope hand addressed to O. S. Slate of Butternuts, NY. 4pp, 5 1/2 x 8 3/4", original folds, slt fox spotting. Envelope 5… Read more about this item

Sydney: New South Wales Intelligence Dept, 1907. First printing. Ephemera. Very good condition. A pamphlet promoting agriculture in New South Wales. The map shows colored zones for dairying and intense cultivation, mixed farming with some dairying, wheat and sheep, artesian areas. Uncolored areas are delineated as "Pastoral with Cultivation within Irrigation Areas." With small inset of Australia and… Read more about this item

New York: J. Seymour, 1829. Paperback. Vol. II of a scarce printing. See OCLC: 27083437 for the two volume set. Small 8vo, disbound, 105pp, 1 b&w plate, general foxing o/w good condition.

New York, 1904. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. Illustrated catalogue of tools and equipment. 10 x 6 3/4", 81pp, blue paper covers, blue text, cream paper internally with blue text and ills. Cover dusty, spine split, internally clean and bright.

Boston, 1874. Good + overall. An incomplete run of the Boston Journal of Chemistry dating January, March, May, June, July of 1874, (Volume VIII No. 7, 9, 11,12; VIX No. 1). A sampling of articles: Chemical Examination of Urine; Why Teeth Decay; Effect of Electricity on Plants; Peat Bogs; Milk Adulteration; Pork Packing; Nitrogen in Soil; Medical… Read more about this item

St. Louis, MO: Eucalyptus Timber Corp., 1910. Pamphlet. Very good overall. A promotional publication of the Eucalyptus Timber Corporation of St. Louis, touting the commercial advantages of Eucalyptus groves. Page 5 quotes "$2500 planted today in Eucalyptus, under proper care and management, will produce $25,000 every ten years the rest of your life and that of your children… Read more about this item

1890. Very good overall. Original paper feed bag with fine chromolithograph illustration of chicken pulling a boy on a wagon on front. Gusseted bottom. 17 x 27 1/4". Slightly dusty.

Melbourne: Department of Agriculture, Victoria, 1895. Paperback. Good + overall. Mr. Sinclair was busy in 1895, producing reports on wheat, hog-raising and the pork-packing industry, preservation of fruit for shipment and the sugar-beet industry and tobacco culture of the US. Sml 8vo, 95pp, 15 unnumbered plates, 1 map. Brown printed paper wraps, with a fold out… Read more about this item

Rochester NY, 1893. Paperback. Very good condition. Magazine for growers and dealers in nursery stock, centered on Western New York. Lead article "The Grape industry Oldest Grape Growing Region in the United States". Sml. folio, 12pp, frontis & 3pp adverts. October 1893 issue, Volume 1 number 9. Handsome original wrappers with embossed gilt scrolling on cream, which is… Read more about this item

1829. An intricate drawing of a bunch of grapes, a survival from the Age of Enlightenment in France, first prize in the annual competition given to a young woman, by one of the women who ran the school. Free drawing schools were established in France from the 1740s onward, with the aim of training and supporting poor children. The… Read more about this item

Melbourne, ca.. Very good condition. A colorful lemon conserve jam label from the H.W. Davidson company with factories in Melbourne and Kalgoorlie. 10 3/4 x 4 3/4", yellow background with white blossoms, pink circular 'good as gold' trademark, and one man handing fresh canned preserves to another, some faint cracks at edges starting.

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1876. First printing. Hardcover. Good + condition. A presentation copy to the Honourable John Hay, dated 8 November 1876, with the author's compliments. John Hay (1816 - 1892) was a New South Wales politician who emigrated from Scotland to Sydney (1838) and later became member and Speaker of the first Legislative Assembly. Hay… Read more about this item

Melbourne: McCarron Bird & Co., 1914. Very good condition. A pamphlet printed for distribution at the 1915 World's Fair in San Francisco. Number 2 of 6 pamphlets available 'relating to Undeveoped Agricultural Industries'. Sticker of Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand on front. 16pp, 10.25 x 4 3/8", printed paper wrappers with blue titles, staplebound. Covers slt.… Read more about this item

London: Colburn & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Good condition. Australian content includes: on Western Australia, zoology (kangaroos), farming, wine growing, New South Wales, gold discoveries, flight to the diggings, geology of the gold fields, Victoria & gold fields, South Australia, Adelaide, and the discoveries of Sturt and Barker. Book plate of the noted Western Australian Paul Hasluck, Australian statesman… Read more about this item

Wellington: W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, 1925. Paperback. Very good condition. A publicity brochure intended to attract farmers to New Zealand. Industries include fruit, poultry, honey & pig farms. 9 x 4 1/2", attractive blue pictorial cover printed in dark blue, green and white illustrating a farm scene. 24pp, staplebound (slt. rusted). [50,000/1/25-19433] identifier at the foot… Read more about this item

[San Francisco], 1884. Wraps. Very good condition. Unrecorded catalog with wonderful woodblock illustrations for merino wool raised in Vermont and shipped to Sydney, Australia via San Francisco. With a wonderful wood block frontispiece showing "Rip Van Winkle" a very heavily folded merino sheep, with caption, "No. 45 Bred and owned by H. S. Brookins, Richville Vt. ..." … Read more about this item

Sydney: Journal of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, 1878. Hardcover. Good +. With an article entitled 'Reapers and Binders' concerning a gold medal offered and trials undertaken by the Agricultural Society of England for the best design of reapers capable of sheafing and tying grain as it was cut. The Journal of the Agricultural Society of… Read more about this item