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  • The Development of Pottery Industry in America

    (with illustrations)

    by Edwin A. Barber ...
    This book presents the Development of Pottery Industry in America since Columbus.The first European settlers found the American natives proficient in the manufacture of earthen vessels, and we would not be justified in supposing, even in the absence of documentary evidence, that our ancestors were more ignorant of the useful arts than the Atlantic Coast Indians, who, less cultured than the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • The Ghost Orchard

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    For readers of H is for Hawk and The Frozen Thames, The Ghost Orchard is award-winning author Helen Humphreys’ fascinating journey into the secret history of an iconic food. Delving deep into the storied past of the apple in North America, Humphreys explores the intricate link between agriculture, settlement, and human relationships. With her signature insight and exquisite prose, she brings light ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Woodworking Tools (Illustrated)

    by Peter C. Welsh ...
    This history of woodworking hand tools from the 17th to the 20th century is one of a very gradual evolution of tools through generations of craftsmen. As a result, the sources of changes in design are almost impossible to ascertain.Published sources, moreover, have been concerned primarily with the object shaped by the tool rather than the tool itself. The resulting scarcity of information is ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Archeology of Mississippi

    by Calvin S. Brown ...
    This reprinting makes available again the only book of its kind to be focused upon the prehistoric Indians of Mississippi. Although written expressly for the layreader, it has continued for more than eighty years to appeal to a wide audience that ranges from professional archeologists and scholars to weekend artifact collectors.Published originally in 1926, Archeology of Mississippi details Brown ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Writing the Garden

    A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries

    by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers ...
    "This book accompanies the exhibition "Writing the Garden" organized in 2011 by the New York Society Library." ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Handbook Of Antique Chairs

    by Carl Drepperd ...
    This early work is a fascinating read for amateur and professional antiquarians, thoroughly recommended for use as a reference on all aspects of antique chairs. Extensively illustrated with text and full page drawings to accompany the text. Contents Include: The Historic Background of Chairs; Chairs of the Seventeenth Century from Tudor Gothic through William and Mary; Slat-back and Banister-back ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short Dictionary Of Furniture

    by John Gloag ...
    A must have companion for any fan of antiques or furniture design. Including chapters on descriptions and design of furniture, furniture designers from Britain and America with notes on the different periods of furniture design. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Passion for Pelargoniums

    How They Found Their Place in the Garden

    by Anne Wilkinson ...
    Quick and reliable to grow for summer colour, and well marketed, most gardeners will have at least one pelargonium in their garden or conservatory, without realising either the number or variety of species available, nor the plant's extraordinary history. The Passion for Pelargoniums reveals the fascinating and dramatic tales of those who have been involved in finding, classifying, collecting and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Root

    The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria

    Edited by James Everett Kibler, Jr. ...
    Collected essays by two of America's earliest environmental authors retain relevance todayWilliam Summer founded the renowned Pomaria Nursery, which thrived from the 1840s to the 1870s in central South Carolina and became the center of a bustling town that today bears its name. The nursery grew into one of the most important American nurseries of the antebellum period, offering wide varieties of ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early New England Potters and Their Wares

    by Lura Woodside Watkins ...
    This book is the result of more than fifteen years of research. The study has been carried on, partly in libraries and town records, partly by conferences with descendants of potters and others familiar with their history, and partly by actual digging on the sites of potteries. The excavation method has proved most successful in showing what our New England potters were making at an early period ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Gardening in 50 Objects

    by George Drower ...
    The earliest record of an enclosed space around a homestead come from 10,000 BC and since then gardens of varying types and ambition have been popular throughout the ages. Whether ornamental patches surrounding wild cottages, container gardens blooming over unforgiving concrete or those turned over for growing produce, gardens exist in all shapes and sizes, in all manner of styles. Today we ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Popular Poultry Breeds

    by David Scrivener ...
    Popular Poultry Breeds examines forty mainstream breeds of chickens and bantams divided into thirty-five chapters. Most breeds exist in several plumage colour varieties, and in large and bantam (miniature) size versions, all of which are also included in this comprehensive book. Detailed histories of each breed are given, in many cases including the names of the breeders and where they lived. Also ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD