A Treatise on the Culture of the Pineapple and the Management of the Hot-House. Together with a description of every species of Insect that infest Hot-Houses, with effectual methods of destroying them.

Speechly, William.

Edité par 1st. Ed. Pub. A. Ward for the Author. 1779

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pp.xviii, 186 with two fold-out plates. 8vo. Very minor amount of spotting, two neat repairs to one fold-out plate o/w. contents fine. Recent, handsome, half-calf leather binding over marbled boards with gilt lettering and blind decoration to spine, very gently sunned to spine o/w. in fine condition. A most pleasing copy of the more scarce first edition. Blanche-Henrey said of this book (and Speechly s A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine ) that These works by Speechly were the most important on the culture of the pineapple and the vine published during the eighteenth century, and it may be said that they laid the foundations for improvements which followed. . The plates illustrate insect pests and a plan for a stove greenhouse - each plate has its own explanatory leaf.

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• Titre: A Treatise on the Culture of the Pineapple and the Management of the Hot-House. Together with a description of every species of Insect that infest Hot-Houses, with effectual methods of destroying them.
• Éditeur: 1st. Ed. Pub. A. Ward for the Author. 1779
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
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  • Fine illustrated and antiquarian Gardening