Category: Roses

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-13: 9781851491667

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

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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The Heritage of the Rose

By: Austin, David

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club : 1990

Seller ID: 016448

ISBN-13: 9781851490202

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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The Heritage of the Rose

By: Austin, David (foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas)

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club : 1988

Seller ID: 017762

ISBN-13: 9781851490202

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 455, fore-edge very faintly marked, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper has just slight signs of use.
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Late Victorian Roses

By: Beales, Peter

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Norwich, Jarrolds : 1979

Seller ID: 013873

ISBN: 0853066216

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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]
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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: £18.00

Publisher: Australia, The Garden Gurus : 2007

Seller ID: 007484

ISBN-13: 9780975827918

Binding: Cloth

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 Rosarian's Year Book for 1888, 1890, 1892, 1895, 1900 and 1901

By: d'Ombrain, Reverend H.H. (editor)

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Old Bailey & Derby, Bemrose & Sons Ltd

Seller ID: 018803

Binding: Boards

Condition: Fair

Six volumes of this rare series. Each volume has unillustrated text, but is proceeded by pages of advertisements which are illustrated, small square octavo, original printed boards, the contents clean, but the boards rather chipped and frayed; two volumes have detached upper covers. Each volumje has a portrait frontispiece of a notable rose grower - these are small oval portraits and appear to be original photographs. The bindings are almost certainly designed by Worthington G. Smith. [A rare series which was first published in 1885 and probably ended in 1901. Shortly after that, the Rose Annu...
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The Companion to Roses

By: Fisher, John

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Viking : 1986

Seller ID: 011936

ISBN-13: 9780670808113

Binding: Cloth

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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Scots Roses of Hedgerows and Wild Gardens

By: McMurtrie, Mary

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Garden Art Press : 1998

Seller ID: 019587

ISBN-13: 9781870673266

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 110, very clean internally, white cloth very slightly age-toned at the edges, the dustwrapper is a little faded and with very slight signs of use and a slight dimple near the spine. Signed by artist on the title page. [The Scots Roses of hedgerows and wild gardens are a characteristic feature of earlt summer. Modest in appearance at first glance, they nevertheless merit attention, for unlike some of their cultivated cousins thay are consistently reliable and completely trouble free. This is a pictorial survey by a very distinguished botanical artist of this a...
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Roses

By: Phillips, Roger & Rix, Martyn

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan : 1994

Seller ID: 001248

ISBN-13: 9780330299978

Binding: Paperback

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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A Book of Roses

By: Ramsbottom, John

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Harmondsworth, King Penguin : 1941

Seller ID: 009492

Binding: Pictorial boards

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

Binding: Paperback

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, Ruari...
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The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing

By: Thomas, George C.

Price: £28.50

Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott : 1914

Seller ID: 017367

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with 96 colour plates, 8 black and white plates, thick square octavo, pp 158, the top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed as issued, slight age-toning, but otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly rubbed, with oval pictorial inlay which is a little scuffed. [The scarce first edition of a classic American work.]
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Rosarium Sangerhausen - Rozenverzeichnis nach dem Stand des Jahres 1962

By: Vonholdt, H. & Tackelburg, Paul

Price: £20.00

Publisher: : 1962

Seller ID: 018533

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Small octavo, pp 160, age-toned and slightly worn internally, paperback, the covers a little worn and chipped, lacking a small corner, the spine peeling. RARE. [ Currently now called the Europa Rosarium, it is one of the largest rose gardens in the world. Today the garden contains about 75,000 rose bushes representing over 6,300 different rose cultivars, of which 2,000 can only be found in Sangerhausen. This catalogue lists the collection at 1962, together with breeder's name and date.]
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A List of British Roses. The British Roses (excluding Eu-caninae). The Subsection Eu-caninae of the Genus Rosa.

By: Wolley-Dod, A.H.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, West, Newman & Co

Seller ID: 013028

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A List of British Roses. p 67. [TOGETHER WITH] The British Roses (excluding Eu-caninae). pp 141. [TOGETHER WITH] The Subsection Eu-caninae of the Genus Rosa. pp 110. Very slight foxing, otherwise very clean internally. Neatly bound in a simple half calf and patterned cloth, slightly rubbed. {Supplements to Journal of Botany} VERY SCARCE 1911 - 1910 - 1908 £35.00
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