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London: B.T. Batsford, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Very good. 3 Vols. XXIV, 63, (1). Folio, 43 x 33 cm. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the Author and Fifty-three by Charles Latham, collotypes from photographs. Title page printed in red and black, interior contents clean. Six page Subscriber's List. Many full page plates with… Saber más sobre este artículo

Nd: Np, Sunday. Wraps. Cream paper. Fine. 4 leaves, 23 x 15 cm. Letterhead: Newport House And Cottages, Bar Harbor, Maine -- Thomas P. Jones Proprietor. an undated ALS noted "Sunday." Manship discusses his stay in Maine was to arrange an exhibition of his works, and an offer to visit Mrs. Abbott with ideas for a set of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Pavilion, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 192 pages. 26 x 26.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Bibliography. Plant Index. The author is also a well known food writer.

New York: Rizzoli, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 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.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in faded and nicked dust wrapper. 299 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. Forty color pates, 350 in monochrome, plus documentary drawings and engravings to show how they appeared in previous centuries. Formal gardens in Europe and America are presented.

Tokio: Printed By The Shiuyei Sha & Published By Kelly and Walsh, 1899. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt. Very good. 142 text pages [Appendix VIII]. Half title, 72 black and white plates, 39 text illustrations, and 14 full page color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. With K. Ogawa he published Landscape… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Orange Judd, 1890. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth, gilt front cover design bright. Very good. 516 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Illustrated with 190 text figures. Two indices: General Index & Index To The Different Fruits. Fruit descriptions note State origins of the various fruits. Very firm fresh copy, interior bright and clean. beveled edges. … Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: William Wood & Co, 1867. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 511 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. This expanded edition with 408 illustrations is newly arranged and rewritten based on Downing's (Fruits and Fruit Trees of America) first edition which appeared after the first edition of this title. General Index and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: John P. Jewett, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown textured cloth, cover panels in blind. Near fine. 813 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Nearly 150 plates: Double-page lithograph frontispiece; woodcut plates and in-text illustrations. KARPEL B526. "Robert Morris Copeland was one of that remarkable generation of landscaped architects which included F.L. Olmsted, H.W.S. Cleveland, and Charles Eliot.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Jean Mariette, 1713. New Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full French calf. Very good. 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, first published… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al., 1816. New Edition. Hardcover. Modern half navy spines and marbled boards. Fine in custom, very good solander case with leather spine label printed in gilt. 2 vols. 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… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Eliz. Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, et al., 1724. Third Edition Corrected. leather-bound. Contemporary cambridge style full morocco with rectangular cover panels decorated in blind, modern reback with raised bands and red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 273 [3] pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. Copper engraved frontispiece, four copper engraved folding plates at rear… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John and Francis Rivington, 1748. Eighth edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 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 work, his most… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: C. Clement, 1821. Stereotype edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown crushed morocco. Fine. 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. Light text… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: William S. Orr & Co, 1849. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and green cloth. Teg. Very good. 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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth worn at backstrip extremities. Very good. 104 pp. 4to, twelve plates in color by Ethel Driscoll and seventy drawings in black and white by Dorothy Levyns. Owner inscription.

London: J.F. and C. Rivington et al., 1776. Third edition, corrected, with large additions. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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 hand the improvement of Kames, the family estate in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Scolar Press, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. 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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1842. New Series. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth. Very good. 10 vols. 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… Saber más sobre este artículo