[GARDENING] [NURSERY] THE ROSE MANUAL; CONTAINING ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE FINEST VARIETIES OF ROSES,... WITH DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR PROPAGATION, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS. WITH ENGRAVINGS.

Robert Buist

Philadelphia: A. Hart and Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851.

Hard Cover. Fourth Edition, with Additions. 8vo.; in the publisher’s brown embossed cloth with a rose stamped in gilt to the center of the upper board; [v], vi-xvi; [13], 14-196 pages; illustrated with several small steel engravings; there are pencilled drawings of rural structures on the endpapers; with wear to the extremities of the spine and the corners; there are a couple of spots of what appears to be green ink at the bottom of the spine; damp stain to the top edge of the front endapers and several pages following; one corner crease at leaf 29/30.~~A sturdy copy of this useful treatise by Robert Buist, “Nurseryman, Seedsman, and Florist”.

Good binding.
Item #294422

Price: $95.00