Wild Flowers of the Cape A Floral Year
Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1930. Hardcover. 104 pp. 4to, twelve plates in color by Ethel Driscoll and seventy drawings in black and white by Dorothy Levyns. Owner inscription. More
Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1930. Hardcover. 104 pp. 4to, twelve plates in color by Ethel Driscoll and seventy drawings in black and white by Dorothy Levyns. Owner inscription. More
London: John Murray, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. 544 and 508 pages. 22 1/2 X 15 cm. Two fold-out maps, twelve lithographed plates, and wood engraved text illustrations. Complete with half titles and folding tables. In 1835 the author made a geological tour of the Levant with Hugh Edwin Strickland, continuing..... More
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1802. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. XXXI, 438 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Frontispiece of Lord Kames and three plates. One page of adverts. HENREY Vol.II, p. 620. "Apart from his legal and literary activities he also found time and energy to devote to agriculture. He took in..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1852-1856. First edition. leather_bound. 100 & 96 pages. 8vo, 26 x 18 cm. Ninety-six chromolithograph plates [with tissue guards] by Boston's William Sharp & Son, plus a plethora of woodcuts of fruit, flowers and trees. "He published also two complete volumes and part of a third..... More
Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 38 pages. More
Ipswitch: Limited Editions Club, 1975. John Griffiths. Hardcover. 234 pages. 23.5 x 28.4 cm. Introduction by Stella Gibbons, drawings by John Griffiths, 12 full page, two double page color drawings are color lithographs, numerous black and white and marginal sketches. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd..... More
New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Cloth. 127 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 45 plates in full coor, 54 duotone photographs. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson, with commentaries by Miriam T. Gross. More
London: J.F. and C. Rivington et al, 1776. Third edition, corrected, with large additions. leather_bound. 432 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. HENREY Vol. II. p.355. " In 1760 (first edition).....It is the first work in English to present botanists with Linnaeus's sexual system of classification and with his terminology, based..... More
London: William S. Orr & Co., (1849). Second edition. Hardcover. 215 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Forty-two lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand, tissue guards. With no entry level manuals for gardening available in her day, she pioneered gardening as a suitable occupation for women. Her husband..... More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 201 pages in text. Large 4to, 29 x 23 cm. Thirty-four tinted lithographs including a host of fold-out plates, and forty wood-cut illustrations in the text. The field work extended from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, and covered a decade with..... More
London: Pavilion, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 192 pages. 26 x 26.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Bibliography. Plant Index. The author is also a well known food writer. More
Philadelphia: W.M. Rutter, 1871. leather_bound. 184, 180, 180, 207, 215. 27 x 19 cm. 277 colored plates -- 156 hand-colored plates (MIchaux) and 121 lithographic plates with hand-coloring (Nuttall), plus engraved frontispiece of Michaux. The Michaux plates were drawn by the Redoute brothers, and Pancrace Bessa. Originally published 1810-1813, translated..... More
London: John and Francis Rivington, 1748. Eighth edition. leather_bound. 343 & [9 page index]. 20 x 13 cm. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by John Pine, an accomplished engraver and friend of Hogarth. First published, 1731. The author was Gardener of the Chelsea physic garden of the Society of Apothecaries, and this..... More
Ashland: Lewis Osbourne, 1971. Hardcover. 61 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Book stamp in blind. Limited edition, copy 367 of 1000. Light cover darkening. More
Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. 104 pages in text. 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Twenty-one lithographic plates, one a large foldout (Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden at the University of Louvain), and containing eighty-eight individual illustrations of plats and greenhouses (design details of interior and exterior views). Some drawings to..... More
New York: Calaway Editions, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 35 x 27.5 cm. Located outside Atlanta,Georgia and noted as the largest public garden in the world,also contains the largest azalea garden in existence. The gardens span fourteen thousand acres housing a butterfly center and a horticultural center and vegetable..... More
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 110 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 on special rag paper printed by the Southworth Anthoensen Press. An historical overview of the Pond with the source material first collected by Arthur C. Pickering. Illustrated with photographs. Appendices. As..... More
London: Scolar Press, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Unpaginated. 30 1/2 x 22 cm. Orig. published ca. 1660. Thirty-one plates as per the original from a copy in the Lindley Library at the Royal Horticultural Society. Limited edition, copy 128 of 500 printed on hand-made paper by F. Amatruda, Amalfi. Full-page color..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated mostly in color. Presents botanical, contemporary and various garden styles, plus gardens open to the public. Index. Bibliography. More
Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie, ca1921. First edition. Hardcover. 23 pages. 44.5 x 32 cm. Title page printed in red and black. 44 collotype plates printed from photographs. Among the fine gardens here presented are those at Neuilly-sur-Seine and Chateau Bijou at Villefranche by landscape architect Jules Vacherot, Nanteau-sur-Lunain and..... More
Stuttgart: J.F. Schreiber, [1887]. 4th edition revised. Hardcover. 77 pages in text. 33 x 22 1/2 cm. Fifty-four hand-colored double-paged plates contains more than 650 individual botanical examples. Register of German Botanical Names. Plates and text clean, backstrip and corners worn. More
London: Macmillan, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. Folio, 38 x 27 cm. Author's first book with 100 drawings by him. Index. As the author notes in his introduction, "There have been great genre painters who did not study anatomy, but there has never been a famous "animalier" who did..... More
London & Philadelphia: William Heinemann & J. B. Lippincott Co, 1911. Robinson, Charles. leather_bound. 128 pages. 27 x 20.5 cm. Deluxe issue, 18 tipped-in colour plates by Charles Robinson, tissue-guards, pictorial endpapers, wide text margins, plethora of line drawings, printed on heavy stock. Spine slightly darkened, some age spotting back..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 414 pages. More than thirty full-page plates depicting approx. 300 figures, plus a pelthora of text engravings. Classified List of British Mollusks. Index to Popular Names. The Library of Natural History Romance. Generally clean with occasional, light foxing mostly marginal. More
Edinburgh: John Murray, 1828. Second edition. Greatly improved and enlarged. leather_bound. 527 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Six engraved plates. Errata slip, advert dated 5th Nov. 1828 noting that unless the author has provided persons instructed by him with a hand written certificate; all others are impostors. Two bookplates, small..... More