A Handbook of Fruit Culture by Thomas Gregg, 1857

Thomas Gregg's First Fruit Book A Handbook of Fruit Culture: Being a Guide to the Cultivation and Management of Fruit Trees and published well before his How to Raise Fruits(1877), is a work selected by Scholars as being culturally important. I have only seen softcover copies. 
Published by Fowler & Wells, Publishers, New York 1857 FIRST EDITION with 90 engravings.
Used brown cloth hardbound 4.5"x7" ; 163 pp+ 4pp phrenology book ads in rear.
Condition: good- with bumping of edges and some loss top of spine; two previous owners signatures on empty page in front and one repeated on title page; front signature page missing small piece of edge.
Price-$195.