The Olive and Its Products

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First Edition.

22cm x 14cm. 80, vi, [2] pages, 11 plates. Later brown leather, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers.

A Treatise on the Habits, Cultivation, and Propagation of the Tree; and upon the Manufacture of Oil and Other Products Therefrom. Early publication on developing an olive industry in Queensland. Lewis Adolphus Bernays (1831-1908) was the first Clerk of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and as a foundation member of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society devoted to introducing exotic species for commercial purposes wrote a number of papers on economic botany. FERGUSON 6952.

Minor general wear. Near Fine Condition.

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