dumb bell of brookfield
- Author: Foote John Taintor
- Genre: Dogs
A collection of short stories by John Taintor Foote, a novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter, is a perfect read especially for dog lovers. The skill of the author in describing relationships between dog and man, wonderful canine characters and a dog’s vision of the world make the book a remarkable classic piece of literature.
wooden ship building
- Author: charles desmond
- Genre: Projects
This is an excellent book for anyone interested in the construction of wooden ships. First published in 1909, this book contains a lot of detailed explanations, and is loaded with ship plans, construction specifications, and technical information. Chapters include types of woods, ship joinery, rigging, and much more. There are numerous charts of technical information pertaining to the wide range of materials needed in wooden ship construction. Although this book was not written as a history of wooden ship building, it certainly gives insight to the industry as it once existed.
advanced textile design
- Author: Watson William
- Genre: General
This book forms a continuation of the subject, and deals in an equally complete manner with compound and special cloths in which two or more series of threads are employed in one or both directions, or which are produced in special methods. There is no separate section on color, but the principles upon which colors are applied to the various classes of cloths are described and illustrated. The volume covers backed cloths, double cloths, and special classes of double cloths, wadded and centre-stitched, figured muslin and damask fabrics, tapestry and upholstery cloths and ingrain carpets, fancy toilets and quilt fabrics, gauze and leno etc.
the handbook of horticulture and viticulture of western
- Author: a despeissis
- Genre: Gardening & Horticulture
Originally published in 1921. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
About Orchids
- Author: Boyle Frederick
- Genre: Flowers
Frederick Boyle is known as the researcher of plants whose studies are popular all over the world and have been republished a number of times. This book of his is devoted to orchids and describes everything concerning these flowers including their origin, types, conditions for growing and a number of other interesting and useful things which would fascinate all lovers of gardens and flowers.
british sheep and shepherding
- Author: walter james malden
- Genre: Breeds
This extensive referance book is a complete encyclopaedia of gardening, explaining in alphabetical sequence terms of the culture and propagation of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs, orchids, ferns, fruit, vegetables, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc. including diseases, treatments, their specific and common names. The gardener is provided with a comprehensive encyclopaedia which not only gives brief descriptions of all the plants they are likely to meet but also complete information regarding their cultivation. In its complete and unabridged original form it is extensively illustrated and full of instruction that is as useful and practical today as it was when originally published. 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 works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.