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 about L'Art Des Jardins Parcs_Jardins_Promenades Etude Historique - Principes De La Composition Des...

Chicago & New York: Hartmann-Sanders Company, 1924. Original Wraps. 64 pages. 27.5 x 20 cm. Album No. 34, a series of designs for Garden Houses and other architectural features, all round columns made by Koll's Patent Lock Joint Wood Columns, "built with due regard to the architectural proportions." Host of... More about The Pergola

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 about The Manner Of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forest-Trees: With Directions how to Plant, Make,...

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 about Edwards's Botanical Register: Or, Ornamental Flower-Garden And Shrubbery: Consisting Of Coloured...

London: Day & Haghe, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 31.5 x 24 cm. Lithographed dedication, 29 hand-colored lithograph plates including title, with flowers and decorated initials, quote from Milton beneath each illustration, and identification of the latter lettered in color in a manuscript style. She was a well respected artist... More about The Flowers Of Milton

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 about Wild Flowers of the Cape A Floral Year

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 about An Introduction To Botany. Containing An Explanation Of The Theory of that Science; Extracted...

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 about The Ladies' Flower-Garden Of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants

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 about An Illustrated Manual of California Shrubs

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 about The Gardeners Kalendar, Directing what Works are necessary to be done Every Month In the Kitchen,...

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 about English Pleasure Gardens

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 about Variae ac Multiformes Florum Species; Designees et Gravees d'apres le naturel par Nicholas Robert

London: W. Simkin and R. Marshall & James Ridgway, 1823-1829. First edition. Hardcover. 23 x 14.5 cm. 712 hand-colored engraved plates (7 folding) by Weddell, F.W. Smith, and others after E.D. Smith, J. Hart and others. Robert Sweet was born and raised in the West Country and served his apprenticeship... More about The British Flower Garden; Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental...