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Rosenwelten - Geschichte, Kultur, Garten, Personlichkeiten (Herausgegeben aus Anlass des Jubilaums "125 Jahre Gesellschaft Deutscher Rosenfreunde e. V"

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Baden-Baden, Aquensis: 2008

Seller ID: 008802

ISBN: 3937978216

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 223, pictorial boards, slightly bumped but otherwise a very good copy. [German text]. A Heavy book - extra postage may be required.
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Shrub Roses and Climbing Roses with Hybrid Tea and Floribunda Roses (Hardback edition)

By: Austin, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 1996

Seller ID: 002422

ISBN: 185149166X

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with photos mostly in colour, octavo, pp 288, hardback in laminated boards, no dustwrapper as issued, the very slightest signs of use. A binding fault has left a lump of glue sealed under the front endpaper, leading to a slight depression in the first few pages, otherwise a very good copy. (This is a reprint of the 1993 edition. Parts of this book first appeared in "The Heritage of the Rose" by David Austin, 1988, revised 1990, reprinted 1993).
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Shrub Roses and Climbing Roses with Hybrid Tea and Floribunda Roses (Hardback edition)

By: Austin, David

Price: £11.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 1999

Seller ID: 015858

ISBN: 185149166X

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with photos mostly in colour, octavo, pp 288, hardback in laminated boards, no dustwrapper as issued, the very slightest signs of use. (This is a reprint of the 1993 edition. Parts of this book first appeared in "The Heritage of the Rose" by David Austin, 1988, revised 1990, reprinted 1993).
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Old Roses and English Roses

By: Austin, David

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 1995

Seller ID: 003206

ISBN: 1851491503

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with photos mainly in colour, 8vo, pp 224, laminated boards, no dustwrapper as issued, corners showing slight signs of wear, the tiniest of creasing to the head and tail of the spine, otherwise a good sound copy of a book which is surprisingly difficult to find. (This is a 1995 reprint of the 1992 edition. Parts of this book first appeared in "The Heritage of the Rose" by David Austin, 1988, revised 1990.) {David Austin, the proprietor of one of the countries leading rose nurseries, offers useful and informative pointers as to flower and bud form and development, shape...
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The Heritage of the Rose

By: Austin, David

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 1990

Seller ID: 016448

ISBN: 1851490205

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Revised edition. Well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 455, very clean internally, olive cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just slightly worn and frayed. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. [A seminal work from one of the leading rose growers of his time.]
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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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The Rose - the Latest, the Greatest

By: Cochrane, Trevor & Passmore, Neville, (with contributions from David Austin, Leigh Siebler, Finbarr O'Leary, Maureen Ross, Kim Syrus & Anthony Tesselaar)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Australia, The Garden Gurus: 2007

Seller ID: 007484

ISBN: 097582791X

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, very large quarto, pp xx, 179, a very good copy in dustwrapper. {Very heavy - extra postage will be required if sending abroad.]
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The Rose King - Reynolds Hole of Caunton, 1819 - 1904

By: Elias, Gillian

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire County Council:

Seller ID: 015884

ISBN: 0900943564

Condition: Very Good

[Not dated - c.1995 ?]. Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 40, paperback, a very good copy.
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The Companion to Roses

By: Fisher, John

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Viking: 1986

Seller ID: 011936

ISBN: 0670808113

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 224, a slight suggestion of age-toning around the margins, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A huge array of information including the rose in art, history, lore, antiquity, with biographies of breeders, and much practical material as well.]
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Le Livre d'Or des Roses : Iconographie, Histore et Culture de La Rose

By: Hariot, Paul

Price: £650.00

Publisher: Paris, Lucien Laveur: 1903

Seller ID: 016498

Binding: Loose in folder

Condition: Good

Quarto, pp 130, (6), + 60 colour chromolithograph plates on thick stippled paper, the text pages uncut and unopened, the plates with a facing protective page containing the name (these facing page are a bit aged and browned and fraying at the edges,, the plates are still clean, sound and unmarked), all pages are loose as issued in this form, in an original green folder with silver lettering, slightly worn and marked, and lacking the upper ties (of three). A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural lLndley Library, this copy being the Reginald Cory bequest copy, with two labels on the front endpa...
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Memoirs of the Rose Comprising Botanical Poetical and Miscellaneous Recollections of That Celebrated Flower in a Series of Letters to a Lady

By: Holland, John

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Francis Westley: 1824

Seller ID: 016132

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Small slim octavo, pp 189 (+ 3 page publisher's catalogues), edges untrimmed, endpapers a little marked and soiled, just a little age-toned internally but otherwise tight and sound, original pink boards, rubbed and marked, the spine dull, paper title label dull, joints worn but firm. VERY SCARCE.
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Roses

By: Phillips, Roger & Rix, Martyn

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1994

Seller ID: 001248

ISBN: 0330299972

Condition: Very Good

[Pan Garden Plants Series]. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 224, paperback, a very good copy showing only the slightest signs of use.
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Roses

By: Phillips, Roger & Rix, Martyn

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1994

Seller ID: 011828

ISBN: 0330299972

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 224, corners very slightly turned, otherwise clean and sound internally, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and very slightly worn.
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Roses

By: Phillips, Roger & Rix, Martyn

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1988

Seller ID: 011829

ISBN: 0333469585

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 224, endpapers slightly age-toned, otherwise very clean and sound internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is age-toned and slightly worn. From the library of the botanist Alan Leslie, with his bookplate on the front endpaper[This hardcover edition is extremely scarce.]
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Conservatory and Indoor Plants (Volume 1)

By: Phillips, Roger & Rix, Martyn

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1997

Seller ID: 011968

ISBN: 0333677374

Condition: Good

Volume 1. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 286, very clean internally, pictorial laminated boards, very slightly worn with upper corners bumped, in a slightly worn and stretched dustwrapper. [Includes Camellias, Oranges and Lemons, Crassulas, Acacias, and with an extensive 66 page section on Geraniums.]
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A Book of Roses

By: Ramsbottom, John

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Harmondsworth, King Penguin: 1941

Seller ID: 009492

Condition: Good

First reprint. Small slim 12mo, illustrated with 16 colour plates by Redoute, pp 30, endpapers a little age-toned, plates and text a little foxed, a name and date on the front endpaper, pictorial boards a little worn foxed and age-toned. SCARCE. Postage will be reduced.
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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Volume LVIII Part 2

By: Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair; Frederick Keeble; F.J. Chittenden; Mrs Frank Tracey; T.A. Lofthouse; J, Steuart; Miss J. Ferguson; W.J. Mitchell

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, RHS: 1938

Seller ID: 015513

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 207 + Proceedings, fore-edge foxed, title page a little foxed, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers a little bruised at the corners, otherwise in good condition. [ Includes A Botanical Study of Rose Stocks; The First Twenty-Five Years of Wisley Garden; Flower Hunting in Cyprus; Plants of Sierra Nevada Spain; Samuel Curtis; The Nymans Garden Library; with reports on the trials of Apples and Dutch Irises.]
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Old Garden Roses (with inscription from Ruari Maclean)

By: Sitwell, Sacheverell, Blunt, Wilfrid & Russell, James (foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas)

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, George Rainbird Ltd, in association with Collins:

Seller ID: 016405

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

[1955 - 1957]. Two volumes, 16 fine colour plates by Charles Raymond, folio, pp 52; 47, slightly age-toned but otherwise clean and sound internally, boards slightly bowed, title labels on upper covers, dustwrappers are a little frayed and browned, now repaired and preserved in removable clear covers. [Volume 1 has a charming inscription from Ruari Maclean, the book's designer, to the pioneer printer Rowley Atterbury - "Rowley: with gratitude for providing a) the Gresham type in this book, b) Ewers, Citroens, Deaths and Captain Cook and numerous other incentives to gaiety, with affection, R...
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