BEACH, S. A.; N. O. Booth; O. M. Taylor.

THE APPLES OF NEW YORK [Two Volumes].

Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1905. First edition. Hardcover, two volumes. Thick octavos. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, gilt spines and decorative upper board. Decorative endpapers. Color frontispiece with tissue guard present in Vol. I, xx, 409, [1] pp.; 9 text figures, 41 half-tone plates, and 89 color plates. Vol. II, 360, [2] pp.; 37 half-tone plates, and 45 color plates, all of which, in each of the two volumes, are full-page and printed on rectos only, and unpaginated. Shelf wear to edges, foretips bumped, spots on boards, some occasional underling, else a remarkably nice reference guide to the vast number of varieties of apples available at the turn of the 20th century for cultivation by New York home or commercial farmers. Very good. Item #914

Price: $425.00