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40 AGRICULTURAL COTTAGES IN CORNWALL.
With three tears, closed, in the sheet, and some rubbing at ink title on the bottom of the drawing. In a recent matt mounting. Very good.
Book ID: 16318More details Price: £275.00 -
A BOTANICAL LADDER FOR THE YOUNG.
Botanical instructions for the young in the form of a dialogue between mother and child. These instructions are for a fairly well read child and progress as one advances up the steps of a ladder. With text figures or sketches.
Original cloth,title gilt stamped ; well preserved.
Book ID: 16381More details Price: £45.00 -
A GARDEN IN VENICE.
Original publisher’s decoratively embossed leather”Venetian” style, some scuffing to extremities, pictorial endpapers; apart from light scuffing, a very good copy.
Book ID: 16156More details Price: £200.00 -
A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE. Being A Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening In all the Parts of them. Viz. Husbandry in the FIELD, And Its Several Improvements...In FIVE BOOKS...
Original full leather boards with double gilt ruling, very skillfully rebacked in full leather with gilt ruled raised bands and what is probably the original gilt-lettered title piece; original front pastedown preserved with two bookplates (Hare of Docking, Esq. and L.K. Elmhurst); free endpaper and following blank recent and well-matched; much faded old damp-staining (washed?) appearing in upper margins of some pages, only occasionally appearing in text, at rear pages. The name Charles Martin written in faded ink on title page. A well preserved copy.
Book ID: 16219More details Price: £700.00 -
A PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE OF HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING: Being A New Method of Cultivating and Increasing all sorts of Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers. A Very Curious Work: Containing many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilizing the most Stubborn Soils... Translated from The High-Dutch, with Remarks: and Adorned with Cuts. The whole Revised and Compared with the Original, together with a Preface, confirming this New Method, By RICHARD BRADLEY.
Original full calf, blind-stamped on upper and lower covers, with raised bands and gilt ruling on spine; lettering to spine faded; outer hinges partially split and spine ends worn; two old small library stamps on edges of title page.
Book ID: 14522More details Price: £1,300.00 -
ALBUM DU PAYSAGISTE POUR L'ARRANGEMENT DES PARCS ET DES JARDINS. 23 Planches Contenant 300 Croquis.
Original printed boards, worn and soiled, repaired at corners and at cracks along top margin; new cloth spine; new endpapers; preliminary pages foxed, plates clean.
Book ID: 16739More details Price: £1,100.00 -
AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF CROOME D'ABITOT,
The Seat Of The Right Hon. The Earl Of Coventry; With Biographical Notices Of the Coventry Family To Which Are Annexed An HORTUS CROOMENSIS And Observations On The Propagation Of Exotics.
Original paper over boards, soiled, with newer paper spine sympathetically aged, remnant of original spine label relaid. Original endpapers; some discoloration from aquatints on opposite text sections.
Book ID: 16548More details Price: £800.00 -
AN UNUSUAL VIEW OF “CLAIES” COVERING A GLASSHOUSE.
An accomplished watercolour showing a greenhouse completely covered in the pale green wooden slate screen once used regularly in glass house cultivation. The structure is set within an area laid out with trees, bedding plants, and paths. A decorative doorway and a flexible ladder over the top of the house distinguish the drawing. Probably from an album or a series of sketches. Very attractive.
Watercolour sketch on paper; edges unfinished. In very good condition. Simple, temporary paper mat provided.
Book ID: 16580More details Price: £125.00 -
ARBRES FRUITIERS, ARBRES D'ORNEMENT, ARBUSTES ET ROSIERS Cultivées Chez Durand, Horticulteur, Dessinateur et Entrepreneur de Parcs et Jardins... Catalogue Descriptif Précédé D'Instructions Sur La Plantation, La Taille, Le Pincement, Le Tracé Et L'Exécution Des Parcs Et Jardins.
Extensive nursery catalogue for this prominent firm, formerly Jamin et Durand, located in Bourg-la-Reine near Paris. Fruit trees make up the largest selection, but there are also 17 pages of roses and 44 pages with priced listings for other ornamental trees and shrubs. In addition to catalogue listings there is a substantial general text covering propagation, pruning and espalier training followed by a 10-page chapter on the layout of parks and gardens.
Original paper wraps, soiled and worn; small corner of rear wrapper torn away; occassional pencil margin notes.
Book ID: 15323More details Price: £175.00 -
BAGATELLE ET SES JARDINS.
First edition. Forestier was in charge of the restoration of the gardens at Bagatelle located in the Bois de Boulogne. The text presents a history of the Chateau and its gardens from the 18th century up to their purchase by the city of Paris in 1905, and concludes with a 12 page chapter entitled "Quelques Idées Sur Les Jardins Modernes."
Original paper wraps.
Book ID: 15782More details Price: £50.00 -
BESCHREIBUNG DES LUSTSCHLOSSES UND GARTENS SR. KÖNIGL. HOHEIT DES PRINZEN HEINRICHS, BRUDERS DES KÖNIGS, ZU REINSBERG.
Wie auch der Stadt und der Gegend um dieselbe.
Facsimile reprint of this 18th century guide book to the royal gardens at Rheinsberg located northwest of Berlin.
Original paper-covered boards.
Book ID: 15145More details Price: £12.00 -
BLOOK, Miniature.
A nineteenth century mirror case or compact in the form of a bound book. With a handcut gilt paper inscription within.
A very beautifully preserved blook miniature. The “binding” is green ribbed cloth with five raised bands in gilt decorative paper on the spine. Upper and lower covers are framed with the same bands of gilt decorative paper ; upper cover also has a gilt paper design in the central panel. Paper covered edges are gilt. When opened, the blook displays its original mirror, gilt framed, on the upper board. On the lower board is a gilt framed decoratively cut inscription, also executed in gilt paper saying: “ M.E./qui vous/M.” This inscription is set against a turquoise paper and protected by a transparent glass-type surface.
The mirror has lost silvering, but the item is in fine condition.
Book ID: 16602More details Price: £175.00 -
BOTANICA NEGLECTA. WILLIAM YOUNG, Jr. /( OF PHILADELPHIA) / “BOTANISTE DE PENSYLVANIE”/ AND HIS LONG =FORGOTTEN BOOK...”.CATALOGUE D’ARBRES ARBUSTES ET PLANTES HERBACEES d’AMERIQUE”
Published in Paris in 1783/ With Prefatory Account Of the Author And Critical Notes By the Editor/ Samuel N. Rhoads.
A facsimile reprint of this rare catalogue of American plants published in Paris in 1783 by William Young. Young, a horticulturist living in Philadelphia, offered plants for sale in France, listing separately those he could provide himself and those available from other sources. This reprint was published in a edition of 250 copies by its editor, Samuel N. Rhodes, who also provides biographical and critical notes. FROM SEED TO FLOWER #5, this edition.
Original cloth-backed boards, fine; text pages uncut.
Book ID: 16619More details Price: £100.00 -
CACTÉES...
Quelques Conseils d'Angel & Fils (cover title).
An imaginative and charming advertising booklet promoting cactus collecting and cultivation with drawings printed in colors and hand-lettered text printed in brown ink. The text provides directions for replanting, for creating little "Japanese" gardens in tray arrangements, and for handling slips or cuttings and for sowing seeds. Prices are given for various sizes of cactus, for vases and pots, and for Japanese ornaments used in the tray gardens.
Original self wraps; a well preserved copy of a fragile item. With printed florist's card laid in listing the 8 commandments of the "cacteophile."
Book ID: 12725More details Price: £75.00 -
CALENDRIER OFFERT PAR LA BELLE JARDINIERE...NOS JARDINS.
A lovely calendar for the 1902 season with illustrations by numerous artists including Eugene Grasset for November. Grasset also illustrated the cover.
Original cover loose, as issued. with 12 colored plates tied at the top edge.
Book ID: 16589More details Price: £200.00 -
CATALOGUE DE LA VINGTIEME EXPOSITION DE FLEURS,
Ouverte Les 21, 22 Et 23 Juin 1840, A La Grande Salle Académique De L'Université.
The catalogue lists 460 flowers exhibited at the Exposition and provides brief accounts of several concurrent meetings and official reports.
Spine perished and front wrapper lacking; light stain along edge of margin on some leaves, one corner partially worn away.
Book ID: 13174More details Price: £30.00 -
CATALOGUE OF A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SALE OF A GRAND AND CHOICE COLLECTION OF ORCHIDS (cover title).
The printed catalogue of an orchid sale to be held on Wednesday, September 11, 1889, at Rolker & Sons sales room by order of Frederick Mau of Weehawken, New Jersey. The sale was comprised of "25 Grand and distinct Varieties of Cattleya Trianae with flower sheaths, C. Trianae Alba, C. Bogotensis Alba, Saccolabium giganteum Album," and much more. There are 326 lots listed, some with a bit of description, such as: CYPRIPEDIUM SEEGERIANUM: "Hybrid between Cypripedium Harrisianum and Cypripedium Spicerianum; only in a few collections can this superb Cypripedium be found..." Nineteenth century orchid auction catalogues are quite uncommon.
Scattered light to moderate foxing to text.
Book ID: 15880More details Price: £250.00 -
CATALOGUE OF CAST-IRON GARDEN VASES, Chairs, Seats, Tables, Stools, Hand Glass Frames, Garden Rollers, Etc. Kept In Stock By J. Jones, Iron Merchant, and Hot-Water Apparatus Manufacturer.
An elegant little catalogue with its title printed in a variety of typeface, fancy and plain, and with detailed engraved illustrations in the text. As stated by the manufacturer, this catalogue of cast-iron garden ornaments accompanied Jones’s larger general catalogue. He praises the durability of his cast-iron over stone, cement, wood, etc. He also notes that his seats, chairs, and stairs can be easily assembled and reassembled. Shown are two vases with pedestals, two tables (rustic and stool), an ornamental chair, a rustic bench, glass frame and garden roller. Each item is priced, measurements are given, and, where applicable, different sizes and finishes are noted. We have not located this item in OCLC.
Sewn pamphlet, removed, with relatively large illustrations.
Book ID: 16684More details Price: £200.00 -
CATALOGUE OF PATENT TERRA COTTA ENAMELED VASES.
A trade catalogue of curious inventions in vases with hollow interiors allowing the roots to connect directly with the ground. Also, a decorative “truck “ or tray filled with dirt for the roots to grow into is available to make the vases moveable. Some vases are available in different colored imitation granite. Those shown in color plate are available in “Red Scotch granite,” “Blue Westerly granite,” “ Dark Barre granite,” “Vermont marble” and “Green Barre granite.” Prices are included and, for extra charge, the vases could be carved “as elegantly as desired.” Not found in OCLC.
Original paper covers with printed title design on upper cover; also rubber stamp indicating Grand Prize win at the World’s Fair on upper cover; on title page, two rubber stamps indicating Grand Prize award at the St. Louis 1904 World’s Fair; the faintest occasional foxing, else fine.
Book ID: 16217More details Price: £150.00 -
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED TRADE CARD “BOOKLET” of mostly BUCKEYE Horticultural and Agricultural Products.
One side of each of the four cards is printed with a chromolithographed illustration; the “verso” is lithographed with advertising text in black, bearing the imprint “Coback & Co. Lith. Buffalo, N.Y.” In very good condition.
Book ID: 16689More details Price: £135.00