Paris: J. Rothschild, 1900. Third edition. Boards. 364 pages. 30 x 23 cm. 510 black and white illustrations. Index. Extensive price guide for labor, materials and equipment -- ie...head gardener @75 francs per hour, and a horse hire @70 francs per hour. Foxing to first few and last leaves of... More
London: Country Life, 1919. New Edition. Hardcover. 396 pages. Folio, 40 x 28 cm. 418 illustrations: photographs, plans, drawings, and plats. Index. Clean, fresh copy, binding firm, ex-library, no external marking [bookplate, stamps lower corner title page and verso, plus last page of Index]. Slight chipping backstrip head and foot. More
London: C. Clement, 1821. Stereotype edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 19 x 12 cm. Four copperplate engravings. The author, also known under the pen name of Peter Porcupine, (as a controversial political pamphleteer) lived in the United States at the end of the 18th century before returning to England. Index. SABIN 13871... More
London: Eliz. Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, et al, 1724. Third Edition Corrected. leather-bound. 273 [3] pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. Copper engraved frontispiece, four copper engraved folding plates at rear -- illustrations for avenues, walks and lawns. First published 1676. the author was gardener to the Earl of Essex... More
Paris: Jean Mariette, 1713. New Edition. leather_bound. 293 [1] [XII] pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 38 engraved plates by Mariette and C. Lucas after Dezailler and Alexandre Le Blond, including 29 double-page and 9 folding, mostly mounted on guards. Enlarged second edition of the important French treatise on garden design... More
London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1838-1842. New Series. Hardcover. 26 x 17 cm. Total of 688 hand-colored engraved botanical plates with tissue guards, lacking 26 plates. The young Edwards made some drawings from the plates in the "Flora londinensis" which eventually caught the eye of Curtis who was sufficiently impressed... More
London: Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition. leather_bound. 1630 (24) pages. 36 X 24 cm. Approximately 2821 wood-cuts. Indices. The title page by John Pyne, and engraver chiefly of portraits and frontispieces. Johnson produced this edition noteworthy for its many corrections, improvements, and additions, and remained... More
Paris: A. Vincent, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio, approx. 18 x 14", total of 148 black and white plates, twenty five plans, and 170 views of villas from various Italian regions. Introductory text and explanatory notes. Presents representative data for a host of prominent Italian gardens during the period... More
CapeTown: 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
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
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
Lisbon: Typographia Lusitana, 1868. Third edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. 17 x 12 cm. Engraved color title and 16 additional hand colored engraved plates. First edition contained eight plates only. Text in Portuguese. Book label of Campos Junio Livraria, Lisboa. Plant names organized alphabetically, A-Z. Interior contents fresh, plates bright, spine panel decorated in gilt. 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
London: For the author by John Rider, 1796. First edition. leather_bound. 443, 10 (Index). 17 1/2 x 11 cm. List of Subscribers. HENREY Vol.II, p.468. "This instructive little book, written professedly for the your gardener, remained popular over a long period.....the author was the Vicar of Brixworth, a small village... More
SanFrancisco: J.W. Stacey, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 699 pp. 4to, nearly 800 ilustrations in the text. With a chapter on the use of california shrubs in garden design by Fred H.Schumacher. Bibliography. Index. More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 196, 204 pages. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Series II: Vols. 1-2. A total of 96 chromolithographs, each with tissue guard. An uncharacteristically clean and fresh set with all plates by Prang, perhaps the most prominent American printer of chromolithographs. Original front... 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
Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. 104 pages in text. Small landscape 4to, 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 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... More
NY: Macmillan, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 324 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white with eleven plans to scale, sixty-eight full page plates and one hundred and eighty-five illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Index. POWELL 4970. Owner inscription free endpaper. More
NY: McGraw Hill, 1973. First editions. Hardcover. Folios, 33 x 25 1/2 cm. A monumental undertaking, copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Index. A lavish production under the auspices of the New York Botanical Garden, this complete set covers all the wild flowers of the United States. Well... 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
London: Country Life, 1959. Farleigh, John. First edition. Hardcover. 193 pp. 8vo, twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted. More
London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al, 1816. New Edition. Hardcover. 586 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Mitford's large paper edition with wide text margins. Half title, engraved folding frontispiece, additional pictorial title, vignette to Vol. II, and nine plates, two hand colored [a hybrid bird, and the painting presented... More