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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 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: £600.00 -
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 -
AN ALBUM OF SEED PACKET LABEL ILLUSTRATIONS.
Original stiff paper covers, upper cover printed in brown and gold with the firm’s title, location and monogram; stabbed and tied with original cord; rear cover soiled, corners dog-earred and edges a bit nicked; adhesion blemishes on 4 or 5 samples, else fine.
Book ID: 16451More details Price: £550.00 -
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.
(France): ca. 1900. 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. 15 x 24.5 cm.
Watercolour sketch on paper; edges unfinished. In very good condition. Simple, temporary paper mat provided.
Book ID: 16580More details Price: £125.00 -
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.
Berlin, Freidrich Nicolai, 1778, (1991). Facsimile reprint of this 18th century guide book to the royal gardens at Rheinsberg located northwest of Berlin. 12mo (17 x 10 cm); 95 pp. + folding plan of the garden loosely inserted.
Original paper-covered boards.
Book ID: 15145More details Price: £12.00 -
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.
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1916. 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. 8vo (24 x 16 cm); xi + (4) + 55 pp.
Original cloth-backed boards, fine; text pages uncut.
Book ID: 16619More details Price: £100.00 -
CACTÉES...
Quelques Conseils d'Angel & Fils (cover title).
Paris: n.d. (ca, 1950). 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. Oblong 12mo (22.2 x 18.2 cm); 12 pp., including covers, printed and illustrated in colors.
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 -
CATALOGUE DE LA VINGTIEME EXPOSITION DE FLEURS,
Ouverte Les 21, 22 Et 23 Juin 1840, A La Grande Salle Académique De L'Université.
Liége: Imprimerie De N. Redouté, 1840. The catalogue lists 460 flowers exhibited at the Exposition and provides brief accounts of several concurrent meetings and official reports. 8vo (20 x 12.9 cm); 43 pp.
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).
(New York). 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. Stitched pamphlet 22 x14.5 cm.,18 pp.
Scattered light to moderate foxing to text.
Book ID: 15880More details Price: £250.00 -
CATALOGUE OF PATENT TERRA COTTA ENAMELED VASES.
New Orleans, LA & Elmhurst, Cal: D. Moriarty, ca. 1904. 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. Stapled oblong pamphlet, 17 x 25.5 cm.; 12 unnumbered pp. with text figures and with 5 color lithographed plates.
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 -
CIVIC ART.
Studies In Town Planning, Parks, Boulevards and Open Spaces.
Original cloth gilt ruled and lettered on upper cover and spine, extremities very gently worn, slight separation of cloth along 2 inches of spine edge, else a very good copy.
Book ID: 15837More details Price: £450.00 -
COLO. BEAUTIES (cover title).
(Colorado): n.d. ( ca. 1900 ). A very well preserved souvenir album of collected Colorado wild flowers bound in a hand-painted, ribbon-tied binding. Below each of the twelve preserved specimens the plant’s popular name, botanical name and a reference (Torrey, Gray, etc) are hand-written in pen. We have seen similar, though not identical bindings for botanical collecting in Colorado, suggesting that these (blank) notebooks were available to tourists hiking the fields, meadows, etc. 19.2 x 10.7 cm; 12 leaves of heavy stock with mounted natural specimens and hand-written identifications on rectos only.
Original hand-painted dark boards with ribbon ties, ties gently frayed, but intact; all edges gauffered and gilt; leaves with specimens fresh and clean, with only the occasional small segment of a specimen lacking.
Book ID: 16154More details Price: £250.00 -
COLOR LITHOGRAPHED TRADE CARD:
ÉTABLISSEMENT HORTICOLE REMI MEYER & CO.
Gand: ca. 1840, 1850. This "porcelain" trade card for the horticultural establishment of Remi Mayer is printed in blue, maroon and gold with four vignettes, each framed, surrounding the proprietor's name. Within the four vignettes are views of the nursery, itself, with its cold frames and planted beds, and views of garden settings, an approach to a house, a view across a pond to a gate and another view across a ringed pond. The lithography is by F. & F. Gyselynch at Gand. Single sheet of glossy card stock, 11 x 16 cm, printed in colors.
Card stock mounted on conservation stock and matted with exterior measurements of mat at 30.5 x 33 cm.
Book ID: 15591More details Price: £163.00 -
COLOR LITHOGRAPHED TRADE CARD:
Frs. Van De Cappelle-DePretter.
A few minor scratches at extremities, but a well preserved example, mounted on conservation stock and matted, measuring 30.1 x 33 cm. at exterior of mat.
Book ID: 15590More details Price: £187.00 -
COLOR LITHOGRAPHED TRADE CARD: "J. Van Geert, Horticulteur-Fleuriste..."
Ghent: (ca 1840, 1850). A handsome trade card for J. Van Geert, nurseryman and florist in Ghent. These meticulously printed cards were called "porcelain" cards because of their glossy finish and multi-colored lithography. In this case the printing, by G. Jacqmain of Ghent, is in gold, green, black and red. The image incorporates an oval framed engraved portrait of Flora, a round framed engraving of an outdoor pavilion with staged potted plants, another round framed engraving of two figures in a garden standing by a planted vase on a pedestal, and, at the bottom, a large building which evidently housed the firm. Planted vases, satyrs and putti also embellish the card. Single sheet of glossy card stock (12.5 x 17.1 cm) printed in colors.
Original porcelain card with fresh colors mounted on acid free board with mat opening measuring 13.3 x 18 cm, and mat measuring 30.5 x 33 cm. over all.
Book ID: 15588More details Price: £163.00 -
COUP D'OEIL SUR BELOEIL
Et Sur Une Grande Partie Des Jardins De L'Europe.
Paris: Editions Bossard, 1922. An annotated reprint, edited by Ernest de Ganay, of the enlarged second edition of 1786, with appendices incorporating additional material from the rare edition included in de Ligne's MÉLANGES MILITAIRES, LITTÉRAIRES ET SENTIMENTAIRES published in 1795. Ganay has also added his own 34 page introduction. Ganay 110. 16mo (19.3 x 13.5 cm); (5)-333 pp. + frontispiece portrait.
Original printed paper wraps, well preserved; text unopened.
Book ID: 15586More details Price: £10.00