The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c. Volumes I & II. [Spine title:] Downing's Horticulture

Published by Published by Luther Tucker, Albany, New York, 1848

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Illustrated. viii, [ii],[9]-576; viii, [9]-576 pp. 2 vols. Thick 4to. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership signatures and bookplates of Edwin A. Stevens (1795-1868), New Jersey industrialist, railroad pioneer, and philanthropist whose will established and endowed the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Original brown blindstamped ribbed cloth, some wear to spines. Signed on the front free endpaper by Edwin A. Stevens, Hoboken, and with his bookplate Illustrated. viii, [ii],[9]-576; viii, [9]-576 pp. 2 vols. Thick 4to.

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The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c. Volumes I & II. [Spine title:] Downing's Horticulture
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Downing, A.J., editor
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Published by Luther Tucker, Albany, New York
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1848
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