Alderton Geo E (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 76 pp.+ Frontis plt, Orig Blue-Grn Hardback, edgewear, owner pastedown f E.P., else G-VG, Assumed 1st ed.

octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering and blind rule to front board, frontispiece, vii + 76pp, VG (moderate soiling and foxing to boards, moderate tanning to spine, light scuffing/fraying to spine extrems and board corners, moderate tanning to eps, prev owners ink stamp to fep, light foxing to prelims).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wellington, Government Printer, 1884. Octavo, viii (last blank), 76 pages plus a frontispiece. Original stippled cloth lettered and decorated in blind; cloth sunned on the spine and a little unevenly discoloured around the edges; a very good copy (internally excellent). 'With a view to encouraging the more extensive culture of Citrus fruits in the northern portion of New Zealand, and of aiding planters with reliable information on the subject, the author of this book was empowered by the New Zealand Government to visit New South Wales in 1884, to personally inquire into and report upon the methods of cultivating the orange, as pursued there' (preface). The book contains much Australian material, a fact that appears to have been overlooked by the standard Australasian bibliographies.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. vii, 76. Slim 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8". Textured cloth over boards featuring blind-stamped title, rules, and ornaments to the front board. Illustrated frontispiece entitled, 'Orange-Tree - Dent's Orchard - Whangarei." Light rubbing to extremities, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. A comprehensive examination of the cultivation of oranges with sections dedicated to: cost and profits; soil, location, and aspect; shelter and effects of frost; manuring the orange-tree; insects injurious and beneficial; species, varieties, etc.; orange-cultivation in Fiji; et al.

First edition. Frontispiece. 8vo. Blindstamped green cloth, slightly worn. Endpapers browned, a few pages with marginal stains. vii, 76pp. Wellington, George Didsbury,