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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). View more info
By: N/A
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library: 1989
Edition: First Edition
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.") View more info
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.] View more info
By: N/A
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Reading, 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013357
Condition: Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp 126, typed and xeroxed, stapled as issued, paperback, slightly worn, the lower cover detached. [Includes Challenger's major 40 page article "Pioneer Nurseryman of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1850-1865, and other articles on the introduction of bladder-nuts, Burnt Norton, Dublin Botanic Garden, Rozel Trees and Philip Miller as garden advisor.] View more info
By: N/A
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation:
Edition: First Edition
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, Graphic Export Centre: 1966
Edition: First Edition
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... View more info
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.] View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: New York and London, Abbeville Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
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... View more info
By: Allan, Mea
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014869
Condition: Good
Illustrated, large octavo, pp 345, clean internally, green cloth a little marked and stained at the lower edge, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, a little worn and rubbed, and its lower cover a bit marked and stained. View more info
By: Allan, Mea
Price: £5.50
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1982
Edition: First Edition
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. View more info
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). View more info
By: Baldwin, Myles
Price: £22.50
Publisher: Miller's Point, Murdoch Books: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015157
ISBN: 1740459067
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 256, decorated cloth, a tiny scuff to the upper corner of the dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy indeed. [Landscape designer, Myles Baldwin shows how to create gardens that mesh sympathetically, authentically and workably with period homes. He identifies the defining features of the major design eras ranging from the Renaissance through to Modernism and presents a number of house and garden 'case studies' from Australia, Europe and the UK. There is a practical element, with advice on choosing stylistically appropriate plants, hard landscaping materi... View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Private printing: 1952
Edition: First Edition
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. View more info
By: Batey, Mavis
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Amersham, Scolar Press: 1986
Edition: Second edition
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.] View more info
By: Beales, Peter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Norwich, Jarrolds: 1979
Edition: First Edition
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. View more info
By: Beales, Peter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Norwich, Jarrolds: 1979
Edition: First Edition
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. View more info
By: Berger, Rachel & Burns, Jenny
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Published by the authors:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014826
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, slim small octavo, pp 42, paperback,signature and address label of Joyce Haydn Jones on front endpaper, a very good copy. SCARCE. [Kitty Lloyd Jones, (1898-1978) worked on the gardens of Court House, Upton House, Courances, Pontrancart, Achamore House Gigha and Greys Court.] View more info
By: Billington, Jill
Price: £5.50
Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010566
ISBN: 0711220395
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 240, very slightly worn, in a stretched and slightly worn dustwrapper. [This book takes the reader on a guided tour of London's public squares, community and allotment gardens, front gardens and window boxes – and the myriad and monumental public parks, from the grand formality of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens to the wild heathland of Hampstead and the commons. Illustrated with photographs that capture all the diversity of London's green spaces, presenting a unique and fresh viewpoint on the familiar, crammed with intriguing information as we... View more info
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By: Binney, Marcus & Hills, Anne
Price: £9.00
Publisher: London, Save Britain's Heritage: 1979
Edition: First Edition
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.] View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012470
ISBN: 0711225427
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 256, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Very scarce. [In this book Richard Bisgrove analyses William Robinson and his remarkable contribution to gardening. Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll were almost exact contemporaries and each made enormous contributions to the English garden - and so to the gardens of the whole English-speaking and Anglophile world - but in rather different ways. Robinson, more than any other gardener, was responsible for sweeping away the carpet bedding of the Victorians and promoting a more relaxed style using hardy plants. His volumino... View more info
