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Verlag: Samuel H. Smith, for the authors, City of Washington, 1804
Anbieter: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Produced under an act of Congress, "for the encouragement of learning . . ." the book bears at the end a list of subscribers including Thomas Jefferson, President [3 copies]; James Madison, Secty of State [2 copies]; Aaron Burr, Vice President [1 copy]; and many members of Congress. Bound in original tree sheep, 204, [4] pages, dark red leather spine label lettered and decorated in gilt; edge and corner wear, covers attached to spine with old brown cloth tape now partially detached; piece cut from upper blank margin of title page [presumably to remove an owner's name] taking the work "The" before "American Gardener"; ownership in pencil on pastedown "T [or J] Carney"; there are marginal dampstains on the last 2 leaves. Presumably a skillful restorer could save the original binding, which is all present.
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd. [Early American Vegetable gardening - Includes an Interesting Section on Virginia Wine Making not present in the earlier edition] Bound in contemporary leather. Old notes on end pages. Some tanning, darkening, old dampstaining. 347 pages. Second edition, expanded from the 1804 edition with the inclusion of a "Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia" (John Randolph) and "a Few Hints for the Cultivation of Native Vines, and Directions for Making Domestic Wines." Includes recipes for currant wine, blackberry wine, "champagne wine of gooseberries," and tomato ketchup. A recipe for balsamic vinegar is declared "excellent in spasms and suffocations; in rubbing the hands and temple with it you may venture into foul air." Sabin 26621 (lists only the third edition); Shaw-Shoemaker 44127; not in the culinary bibliographies.
Verlag: Samuel H. Smith (printer), Washington DC, 1804
Anbieter: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, USA
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Leather. Zustand: Collectible-Fair. No Jacket. An American classic. Quite scarce. Condition notes: 204 numbered pp; HB. Pages: mostly clean with a bit of marginalia, tanned, a bit loose; small book store label to front pastedown, ink notes to front eps, title page, and rear blanks, front hinge cracked, pages sunned with some small stains Cover: full leather, well worn, spine re-backed in leather w/ some ffep insect damage to the repair (no body lives here anymore, though), no titles; substantial edge/shelfwear, extrems well worn. A great, scarce book with definite condition issues.