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...

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 about Jardins D'Italie

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 about The Gentleman Farmer: Being An Attempt To Improve Agriculture, By Subjecting It To The Test Of...

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 about Diccionario Da Linguagem Das Flores; Ornato Com Estampas Coloridas

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 about An Introduction To The Knowledge And Practice Of Gardening

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 about Native Flowers And Ferns Of The United States; In Their Botanical, Horticultural, And Popular...

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 about Art De Construire Et De Gouverner Les Serres

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 about Wild Flowers of The United States: Complete Set -- New England States (two parts), Southeastern...

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 about Old Fashioned Flowers