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Gardens: The New Grand Tour - the First European Exhibition of Public and Private Gardens. (Giardini: Il Nuovo Grand Tour - La Prima Mostra Europea Di Giardini Pubblici e privati).

By: N/A

Price: £3.00

Publisher: 1999

Seller ID: 000287

ISBN: 8881691590

Condition: New

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 176, wrappers, very good. (Originally produced as an exhibition catalogue, but in effect a useful guide to Italian gardens, 36 being described and illustrated, many of them private. Bilingual text).
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Prophet With Honor - the Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815 - 1852 (Honour)

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library: 1989

Seller ID: 000973

ISBN: 0884021785

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp (6), 324, green cloth, a very good copy, virtually as new. (A series of essays by George B. Tatum, Charles B. Wood III, David Schuyler etc). ("The most important figure in pomology, horticulture, cottage and garden design in America before the Civil War. Almost single-handedly he created the profession we now call landscape architecture.")
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Huntia Volume 2 - a yearbook of botanical and horticultural bibliography

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, The Hunt Botanical Library: 1965

Seller ID: 009463

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small quarto, pp vi, 304, green cloth, a very good copy. [Includes "A Bibliographical account of l'Heritier's "Stirpes novae"; John Adlum and William Cobbett; Rev John Laurence - the man and his books; Charles Darwin and the perennial flax; the five brethren of the rose; notes on some portraits of British botanists and gardeners etc.]
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Huntia, Volumes 1 - 7 : A Yearbook of Botanical and Horticultural Bibliography (later becoming A Journal of Botanical History

By: N/A

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation:

Seller ID: 013773

Condition: Very Good

Volumes 1 to 7, in 14 volumes, large octavo, paperback apart from Volume 2 which is clothbound as issued, the paperback spines are faded, otherwise in very good condition. Very heavy - extra postage will be required. [A fascinating and erudite collection of articles, with such treasures as Heller's "Early History of Binomial Nomenclature; Dorothy Manks on "Some Early American Horticultural Writers and Their Works"; "H.C. Watson - Great Britain's First Phytogeographer"; "The Collection of Pomological Watercolours in the U.S. National Arboretum"; "Soviet Journal...
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Tulipiana Grafica

By: N/A

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Graphic Export Centre: 1966

Seller ID: 014755

Condition: Very Good

Not dated - 1966 ??]. Slim quarto, 8 pages, paperback, with three loose illustrations of seventeenth century tulips by Judith Leyster; the text comprises merely one page each in French, English and Dutch. A very good copy. SCARCE. The plates are reproduced from watercolours owned by Th. Hoog, Haarlem which are dated 1643 - it is unlikely that they have been reproduced elsewhere. [Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster) (c. 1609 - 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She painted genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Although her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries, Leyster and he...
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Souvenir de Versailles et des Trianons

By: N/A

Price: £5.00

Seller ID: 016397

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

A folding panorama of 14 images reproduced from tinted photographs, good condition internally, but paperback covers worn and chipped, lacking the lower cover. [Not dated - c. 1910 ?]
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The Kew Magazine, Volume 4 Part 1 - 200TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 1787-1987 (Curtis's Botanical Magazine).

By: (Desmond, Ray. Donald, Duncan. Mathew, Brian.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Kew, Richmond, Surrey, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in Association with Collingridge: 1987

Seller ID: 001096

Condition: As New

Illustrated, pp 56, paperback, red covers with portrait of William Curtis on upper cover, very slightly worn. (A celebratory edition, including a FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST TWO PARTS OF CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, with 6 colour plates. Also a biography of Curtis by Ray Desmond, a note on Curtis at the Chelsea Physick Garden by Duncan Donald, and modern notes on the plants depicted.]
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The Shell Gardens Book

By: A Committee of the London Natural History Society

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Phoenix House: 1964

Seller ID: 015417

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Illustrated, thick 12mo, (measures 130mm x 205mm), pp 319, slight foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, pictorial cloth, a slight fade to the spine, but a very good copy. [A greatly under-rated, indeed almost ignored, work. Anthony Huxley, who was one of the contributors, later pointed out that it was the first ever book to treat garden history as a subject in its own right. In its alphabetical treatment of much of its contents it is a direct precursor to Jellicoe's much larger "Oxford Companion to Gardens". The contributors to this volume include ...
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Lettsom - His Life, Times, Friends and Descendants

By: Abraham, James Johnstone

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Medical Books Limited: 1933

Seller ID: 015819

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xx, 498, dark blue buckram, bevelled edges, a very good copy. (Quaker physician and botanist, friend of Collinson and Fothergill, he played a major role in introducing plants and seed from America and the Indies, and in their distribution to botanists and farmers. He was responsible for the introduction of the mangel-wurzel.)
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Nature Perfected - Gardens Through History

By: Adams, William Howard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York and London, Abbeville Press: 1991

Seller ID: 012398

ISBN: 0896599191

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 356, the hinge at pages12/13 is cracking, otherwise very clean and sound internally, a good copy in a dustwrapper which is faded on the spine and on the upper cover, and very slightly worn. Very heavy - extra postage may be necessary. [In a progression that is both chronological and geographic, Nature Perfected details the contributions to gardening by each society--from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians to the incomparable English gardens, and all points in between--in this ground-breaking history of the gardens of the world's greates...
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William Robinson, 1838-1935 : Father of the English Flower Garden

By: Allan, Mea

Price: £5.50

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1982

Seller ID: 014878

ISBN: 0571118658

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 255, extremely clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper has very slight signs of use.
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E. A. Bowles and his Garden at Myddleton House [1865-1954] [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Allan, Mea

Price: £5.75

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1973

Seller ID: 016417

ISBN: 0571103065

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 264, fore-edge a little foxed, top edge vert slightly marked, froint endpaper slightly foxed, otherwise clean internally, green cloth very slightly faded at the margins, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is very slightly worn. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]
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The Victorian Fern Craze - a history of Pteridomania (Richard Fitter's copy)

By: Allen, D.E.

Price: £39.00

Publisher: Hutchinson of London: 1969

Seller ID: 004208

ISBN: 0090998707

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, decorated cloth, pp xii, 85, a very good copy in a better than average dustwrapper which is slightly worn and marked, and faded on the spine. [From the library of the conservationist and naturalist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the half-title).
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Italian Gardens - a cultural history

By: Attlee, Helena

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln: 2006

Seller ID: 016429

ISBN: 0711226474

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 240, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Now very scarce in this hardback edition. [To many of us, the great gardens of Italy seem like paradise on earth. But how much do we know of their history, and the people who created them? In this ravishing book, illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells their story. She starts with Petrarch - still looking to medieval chronicles for advice on how and when to plant - and goes on to the Renaissance and those first gardens to emerge fr...
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Trees of Westonbirt School

By: Barkley, Sylvia Y.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Private printing: 1952

Seller ID: 015046

Condition: Good

Illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and a folding plant at the rear, large octavo, pp 72, front endpaper slightly marked, a neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly worn and faded.
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Oxford Gardens - the University.s influence on garden history

By: Batey, Mavis

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Amersham, Scolar Press: 1986

Seller ID: 015361

ISBN: 0859677249

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Illustrated, small octavo, pp xvi, 256, very slight signs of use internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn, a crease to the spine. [From the library of the botanist Frank White, with his signature to the front endpaper.]
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Late Victorian Roses

By: Beales, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Norwich, Jarrolds: 1979

Seller ID: 013873

ISBN: 0853066216

Condition: Very Good

A small 12mo slim booklet, well illustrated, pp (32), paperback, covers slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE.
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Edwardian Roses

By: Beales, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Norwich, Jarrolds: 1979

Seller ID: 013874

ISBN: 0853068224

Condition: Very Good

A small 12mo slim booklet, well illustrated, pp (32), paperback, covers slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE.
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Die Garten Chinas

By: Beuchert, Marianne

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cologne, Eugen Diederichs: 1983

Seller ID: 015790

ISBN: 3424007676

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small quarto, pp 256, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is a little torn and creased. [A presentation copy to Leo Pemberton of RBG Kew, signed by the author.]
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Elysian Gardens - Save Britain's Heritage [Ruth Duthie's copy]

By: Binney, Marcus & Hills, Anne

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Save Britain's Heritage: 1979

Seller ID: 015353

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, slim tall quarto, pp 72, paperback, very slightly worn. [From the library of the garden historian Ruth Duthie, with her signature on the title page.]
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