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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Folio page (12 1/2" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached along top margin with archival tape. Usual offset from the text side, paper is browned, aged, and a little soiled, perhaps a little trimming; otherwise about very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 403), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB.

Folio page (12 1/2" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached along top margin with archival tape. Usual offset from the text side, paper is a little browned and aged, a little foxing and trimming; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 387), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB.

Folio page (13" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached at the top with archival tape. A little less offset from the text side, paper a little browned and aged, perhaps a little trimming; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 321), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB.

Folio page (12 1/2" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached along top margin with archival tape. Some offset from the text side, paper is a little browned and aged, a little trimming; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 325), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB. # 103017

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Folio page (12 1/2" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached along top margin with archival tape. Some offset from the text side, paper is a little browned and aged, a little foxing and uneven trimming; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 381), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB.

Folio page (12 1/2" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached along top margin with archival tape. Less offset than usual from the text side, paper is a little browned and aged, a little uneven trimming; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 201), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB.

Folio page (12 1/2" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached along top margin with archival tape. Less offset than usual from the text side, paper is a little browned and aged, a little foxing and uneven trimming; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 219), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work.  ODB.

London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio (312 x 200 mm). Woodcut title with a Garden of Eden scene signed "A Switzer" (title-page laid down, margins shaved); woodcut portrait; one full-page garden design woodcut; 109 full-page woodcuts, one small orchard plan woodcut; one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting. Lacking index and table (9 leaves) following pg. 612, the completion of the main text. Marginal repairs to several leaves occasionally affecting text and plates, some soiling. Contemporary calf (rebacked, worn). FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening" (Hunt). Parkinson's work remains one of the best single sources of information on early 17th-century gardening practices and styles in England, "in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day" (Hunt). Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933. Incomplete. SOLD AS IS.

London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio; contemporary calf, rebacked. First edition of Parkinson’s first book and “one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening” (Hunt). Woodcut title with elaborate scene of the Garden of Eden, signed "A Switzer", 108 full-page woodcuts each with numerous figures of plants, one full-page woodcut of garden designs, 3 small text woodcuts, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials (lacking final two leaves: “A Table of the Vertues and Properties of the Hearbes contained in this Booke” and colophon; title page rehinged, portrait leaf supplied from another copy. Parkinson was apothecary and botanist to Charles I, and a large number of the nearly 1000 plants described in this book were grown by the author himself in his garden at Long Acre. The book is filled with references to contemporary botanists and gardeners, and provides one of the best single sources of information on gardening practices and styles in… Leer más

London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young [colophon], 1629. First edition, first issue, folio (325 x 200 mm), [12], 612, [16]pp., an elaborate woodcut title page by Christopher Switzer which shows the Garden of Eden plated with a variety of exotic species recently introduced to Europe, woodcut portrait of the author, title closely trimmed, 109 full-page woodcuts and 3 woodcuts in the text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, closed tear to head of A4, professional paper repair to lower blank margin of final two leaves (just touching a couple of letters), slight worming mainly at head of some leaves affecting a few heading letters, otherwise a very nice clean copy, marbled endpapers, later nineteenth-century full brown morocco by Worsfold, minor white specks to boards, spine with five raised bands with fleur-de-lis tooling to compartments, second lettered in gilt direct, all edges gilt. This being the first edition, first issue of the work with the old usage of the letters u and v throughout.… Leer más

London. Printed by Tho Cotes, and are to be sold by John Grismond. 1635. Folio (in 6s), 302 x 193 mms., pp. [xii], 612 [613 - 628 indexes], woodcut portrait before page 1, 110 full-page engraved woodcuts, vignette woodcuts on page 294, vignette woodcut plans on pages 537 and 543, names in ink in margins of pages, 428, 530, 544, and margins of Indexes Fff3-6, armorial bookplate of George Arnold, "One of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber" with the autograph "E. Lindsay" beneath, and below that "sum A. Oliveri van Oss MCMXXXVI," bound in contemporary sheepskin, spine gilt in compartments with two red leather labels laid down with joints skilfully restored; some slight water-staining, corner torn fomr pages 213-214 with loss of one letter on page 214, most leaves with print-through of woodcuts, title-page a bit stained as are last two leaves of index, and corner last leaf of index repaired, but for the most part a very good copy. The first… Leer más