A Complete Manual For Cultivation of The Cranberry
Hardcover
1860 · New York
by Eastwood, B.
New York: C.M. Saxon, Barker & Co, 1860. Hardcover. g- to g+. Octavo. (vii) 120pp. Brown pebbled cloth boards with blind-stamped floral motifs on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated half-title page. The work is a comprehensive and informative manual in the cultivation of cranberries, and is interleaved throughout with 10 plates of lithographic horticultural illustrations of various aspect of the plant and berries. Binding with sunning to edges and to the spine. Covers with some soling, smudges, stains and rippling due to exposure to moisture. Interior with some markings and writing in pen and pencil on the endpapers an interior covers. light stains along the edges of the half-title page (alternate title page). Starting at pages 50 and 52. light sporadic foxing throughout. Book block tight overall. Binding in good-, interior in good to good+ condition overall. * Alternate title: "The Cranberry and Its Culture" (Inventory #: 43742)