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...
Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates (with stains, and virtually detached), pp 432, vii, untrimmed and unpressed, the first few pages rather weak, a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages, otherwise clean internally though rather weak, original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and erroneously entered 1828. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front endpaper which also contains a contemporary signature. The... View More...
Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates a little browned and marked, pp 432, vii, slightly used throughout, the blank page following the front endpaper is creased and lacking a corner, bound in a later brown cloth. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.] View More...
Volume 4 number 3, Volume 5 numbers 1 & 2, Volume 6 numbers 1 & 2, in six parts, large octavo, paperback good condition. [A fascinating and erudite collection of articles, such as Coffey's 'Soviet Journals Important for Taxonomic Botany', Woodger's articles on Wilson Popenoe, Stieber's 'Register of Plant Collectors' Field Notes Held in North American Institutions', Johnson's 'Bibliography of Literature on the History of Botany & Botanic Gardens, 1730-1840' etc.] View More...
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...
[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 h... View More...
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.) View More...
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...
Limited edition of 999 copies - this one being number 212. Well illustrated with twenty line-drawn plates by S.R. Badmin, octavo, pp 117, (i), untrimmed edges, very clean internally, green buckram with small gilt decoration, the dustwrapper is poor and worn, lacking several pieces with sellotape marks and repairs and rather foxed, now protected in a removable clear cover. [With the bookplate of Green Scene - Alan Mitchell and Victoria Hallett.] View More...
Illustrated, large octavo, pp viii, 215, top edge and fore-edge foxed, lower corners damp-wrinkled, the pages generally a little "waved", paperback, the rear cover and the last few pages bruised; still a good usabel working copy. View More...
Illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and a folding plate 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...
Illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and a folding plate at the rear, large octavo, pp 72, slightly weak internally but very clean, bound in half leather and cloth, slightly worn, lacking a small portion of the spine at the head. [From the library of the plantsman and garden designer Jim Russell, with his bookplate on the front endpaper.] View More...
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...
A small 12mo slim booklet, well illustrated, pp (32), paperback, covers slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE. [Postage will be greatly reduced] View More...
Well illustrated, quarto, pp 240, a very slight mark on the fore-edge otherwise very clean internally, grey clot in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly worn. View More...
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.] View More...
Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 256, very clean internally, black cloth, a very good copy in a very slightly worn 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 promot... View More...
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