This wonderful book is in fair to good condition, you will see from the photos that the brown cloth, covering the boards, is worn and torn and corners rubbed, however inside all 466 pages, plus period advertising pages are all intact, reasonably tight binding. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843: Remarks on the construction of hothouses; also, a review of the various methods of building them in foreign countries as well as in England.

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The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843: An encyclop dia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape gardening; including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. To them he was in the daily practice of discoursing on the subject of the Paradise announced by the prophet, and of his own power of granting.Contains colour frontispiece and 5 other colour plates to each volume, many monochrome archive photographs throughout. Compact, well used, brown cloth hardback book with black blocked titles on both the front board and spine. edition, xii 1233 [1]pp, two publisher's lists (4pp and 16pp) bound at the front, modern green cloth (stain to top of spine), paper spine label, new endpapers, front and lower edges uncut, a few spots throughout (particularly at the beginning and end), modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 8vo (235x141mm). C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843: Self-instruction for young gardeners, foresters, bailiffs, land-stewards, and farmers : in arithmetic and book-keeping, geometry, mensuration, and practical trigonometry, mechanics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics, land-surveying, levelling, planning, and mapping, architectural drawing, and isometrical projection and perspective with examples ; with a memoir of the author.

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C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843: The green-house companion; comprising a general course of green-house and conservatory practice throughout the year; a natural arrangement of all the green-house plants in cultivation; with a descriptive catalogue of the most desirable to form a collection, their proper soils, modes of propagation, management, and references to botanical works in which they are figured. edition, xii 1233 [1], modern half calf and green cloth boards, new endpapers, circular stamp (Union Club) at the top of the title, expertly repaired tear to last leaf, modern woodcut bookplate on front pastedown, thick 8vo (220x137mm), a vey clean copy, this appears to be identical to the 1827 5th edition with the exception of a different date on the title.

C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843: Trees and shrubs; an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum (F. This indispensable planting guide is filled with a wealth of information for all your gardening needs complementing its bestselling companion RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers. The Popular Encyclopedia of Gardening | A Complete and Up-To-Date Alphabetical Guide to Every Branch of Gardening [3 Volumes Complete]. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843: The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-Yard (London: W. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useleu.