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No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 160pp. Visits to six very different part of the country to show how our native gardens can be a source of inspiration and information for gardeners everywhere.
8vo, Incappando in una splendida rosa in un giardino della terraferma veneziana, Andrea di Robilant decide di intraprendere un viaggio particolarissimo alla ricerca delle origini di questa rosa. Un viaggio che lo condurrà dai celebri roseti del castello di Malmaison, sede dell¿imperatrice Joséphine Bonaparte, fino a un giardino rustico friulano, dove un'appassionata signora coltiva più di 1400 specie di rose antiche. Un viaggio in cui l'autore entrerà in contatto con illustri botanici e semplici appassionati, del passato e del presente, attraverso i quali scoprirà e farà conoscere ai lettori aneddoti e segreti, notizie scientifiche e tecniche di giardinaggio, colori e profumi del fiore
158 pages. "Takes you deep into cottage country to discover the essence of summer cottage style. Spectacular photographs from Muskoka, Haliburton, Georgian Bay and the Kawarthas capture the time and place we love most... With chapters on experiors, boathouses, kitchens, dining rooms, living rooms, decks, docks and gazebos, verandas and porches, bedrooms, bathrooms, guest cabins and bunkies, wallworks, details, fireplaces and gardens, this is the definitive book on Canadian cottage style." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Remainder dot to bottom edge of textblock. A sound copy of this attractive work. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, free endpapers very lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed (without material loss) at head and tail of backstrip.
In-4 (249 x 197 mm), demi-veau havane de l'époque à petits coins de vélin, dos lisse orné de doubles filets dorés, (2), viii, 73 p., 12 tableaux hors texte dont 7 dépliants et un plan de plantation plié en fin. Edition originale et unique, rare, de ce document illustré de 12 tableaux hors texte dont 7 dépliants et un plan de plantation plié en fin. L'auteur qui signe "citoyen habitant cultivateur de Saint-Domingue" était une importante personnalité de l'île, régisseur de plusieurs grosses plantations dont celle marquis de Paroy. Ce document reprend et commente un mémoire qu'il avait adressé au ministère de la Marine et des Colonies en l'an VII (1799) pour convaincre les autorités françaises de l'intérêt de conserver et d'étendre le domaine colonial. La première partie "contient les bases d'un plan d'administration des plantations": cultures, gestion des terres et du personnel, organisation des résidences des cultivateurs, choix des cultures. Parmi ses recommandations, Avalle se prononce en faveur d'un "adoucissement de l'état des cultivateurs noirs". Dans la seconde partie, il livre le résultat d'une véritable enquête de terrain qui le conduit à rendre compte du "mouvement d'une sucrerie pendant une année", illustré de statistiques; suivi "d'observations (…) fondées sur le fruit [d'une expérience acquise] pendant plus de vingt années d'administration": nombre de cultivateurs, bâtiments et objets de manufactures, qualification des emplois, temps de travail….. Les Archives nationales et celles du Patrimoine de la Martinique conservent plusieurs documents de / et sur M.-A. Avalle qui témoignent de l'importance de sa position aux Antilles, de son activité, ainsi que de ses relations avec les autorités locales, dont Toussaint l'Ouverture. (Roquincourt, 'Bibliogr. sur la marine et les colonies', n°81. Monglond, IV 459. Sabin, H.2468). WorldCat ne recense que 8 exemplaires dans le monde. L'exemplaire comporte le monogramme "PB" doré à l'époque au dos. Bel exemplaire, très frais, parfaitement conservé.
1st edition. Good in marked green cloth with black decoration and lettering. 11994. eng
270 p. [Lacks last leaf of index] + Four woodcut plates. 12mo. Original full leather binding. Early ownership of E. L. Halstead. A popular and influential garden book by this famous writer, reformer, "muck-raker" and politician. Cobbett wrote the book "to cause the art of gardening to be better understood and practiced than it now is in America." William Cobbett (1762-1835), the son of a peasant f armer, makes clear his attitude toward gardeners in the preface: "The inside of a labourer's house, his habits, his qualities as a workman, and almost his morality, may be judged from the appearance of his garden. If that be neglected, he is, nine times out of ten, a sluggard or a drunkard, or both." The American Gardener was later revised and published as The English Gardener (London, 1829). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W130.
144 pages. Features: Charming colour ad for Deepfreeze Home Appliances inside front cover; Would you throw $357 million into Hell's Canyon?; MGM Color Movie of the Month Calendar; Nice colour ad for Champion Spark Plugs features young batter; Colour 1952 Chevrolet ad; Vivien Kellems - Woman on the Warpath - Anti-Income Tax Crusader; Belinda Osborn, by Hannah Smith; Religion and Our Schools, by Liston Pope, Ph.D.; First Quarrel, by Sarah and Ronald Morrisette; You Can Leave Your Troubles Behind - Smiley Blanton argues that trips can help us in the confused modern world; I'll Never Marry a Bureaucrat, by Elenore Nelson; Star Witness, by Allan Vaughan Elston; Live Wire, by Charles T. Webb; The Escape, by Alice Eldridge; Look Out Rembrandt, Here We Come!, by Jack Long; The Torn Invitation, by Norman Katkov; They Gambled on Greatness - Gilbert J. (Gil) McDougald and Family, by Vance Packard; New Helps for Your Headaches, by Clarence Woodbury; Girl With A Past, by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger; Puppet Family - The Copelan Family of Jamaica, N.Y.; Doctor Soccer - Bill Feffrey of Penn State; Judge Stanley Scherr of Baltimore deals only with traffic court for youngsters; Harriet Dreilinger is one of the nation's best woman magicians; The "Corn Tones" perform for wounded GI's in Tokyo General Hospital; Virgil Stauffer and International Friendship Gardens of Michigan City, Indiana; Blanche Holland works as a hat check girl to travel around the world!; Bombproof Caveman - Herman Knaust of Catskill, NY has a business protecting records from atomic blasts in his underground vaults; Marietta Larson and her Dogettes; Mrs. Warner Nelson cuts cans; Dr. W. Harry Everhart tries to bring back Maine's Atlantic salmon; Chauncey M. Willey Sr. - carver of granite monuments; Coed of the Month - Phyllis Stickler; Holiday Time in Sweden - with photos; Weapon of Fear, by Harmon Coxe; 1-page ad honoring Jt. (jg) Thomas Hudner, Jr. U.S.N., Medal of Honor recipient. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
96, [106] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Holy Rosary Church, Dayton, Ohio; Shadows of the Chateaux; Architectural Treatment of Rapid Transit Stations in New York City; The United States Housing Corporation Project No. 59, at Bath, Maine; Modern Industrial Plants - Part III; Union Park Gardens - a Model Garden Suburb at Wilmington, Delaware; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Furniture of the Italian Renaissance; The Architect's Library - Recent French Books; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
504-604, [10] index to Vol. LV, 136 [ads], pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: Some Work of Aymar Embury II in the Sand Hills of North Carolina; Andalusian Gardens and Patios - Part VII - The Alhambra, Granada - The Acosta Garden, Granada; Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924); The Low-Rental Apartment - An Economic Fallacy - Part II; Cover Design - 22 Oak Street, New York City; Frontispiece - Long Vista, Garden of the Casa Del Rey Moro, Ronda; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Book appears to be in mint unread condition. 160pp. A comprehensive work on how to grow miniature trees, how to design them based on the natural growth habit of various species.
pp. viii, 272 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 8vo. Original cloth backed binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. First published in 1923 as 'A Little Book of Perennials.' **This copy used for the McFarland 1958 edition, second printing. Illustrations and pages marked. Front fly leaf states "cuts stored in cellar, in cage - 6/3/59. 6 Boxed plates stored in cellar in cage - 1/21/64. No cover. Cut Room Jun 4, 1959". This copy was used in the printing office of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948). McFarland was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. In 1878, at age nineteen, McFarland opened his printing business and began to publish gardening and seed catalogs. Realizing that woodcuts did not adequately represent the plants, he started to explore the use of photography. By 1894, he was experimenting with color photography and his company had become America's premier publisher of gardening catalogs, with what may have been the first color photographs produced in the US. The success of his publishing business provided McFarland with wealth and security, and freed him to engage extensively in the philanthropy and civic activism he loved. He was recognized as a master gardener whose books and photographs on roses, trees and other subjects were famous across the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books on roses and made the American Rose Society a world-renowned institution. As president, he established a method of rose identification and registration that is still in use today. He was widely known as "Mr. Rose" and was a founder and president of the American Rose Society, which had an international impact on the propagation of roses. His home and garden in the Bellevue Park section of Harrisburg was an internationally famous testing ground for hundreds of new plant species. It contained 5,000 plants including varieties of roses. PLANTS W132
271p. 8vo. Paperback. Nice copy. Pollan tells the story of four domesticated species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato, and describes how each has thrived by satisfying humankind's most basic desires. PLANTS W130
Two Volumes. Illustrated with numerous photographs and figures. Small 4to. Original full green cloth bindings, lettered and decorated in gold. Hardbound. Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), English botanist, a pioneer in the science of plant ecology. He coordinated a large project to map the vegetation of the British Isles. In this work Tansley showed how vegetation is affected by soil, climate, the presence of wild and domesticated animals, previous land management, and contemporary human activities. He also reviewed all known accounts of British flora and then linked the two themes, thereby demonstrating which factors are important in influencing the various types of vegetation. Very nice set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W132
pp. xiii, 496. Numerous drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. This popular and still useful book was first published in 1935. Nice copy. PLANTS W132 rear
pp. xv, 486. Numerous drawings. Stamped ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight loss head of spine. Hardbound. First published 1935. Nice copy. PLANTS W132 x2
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with very slight traces of handling. 152pp. A fully illustrated guide to gardening under glasshouses, cloches and frames, including orchids, cacti, ferns, vegetables and fruit. A month-by-month guide to the year in the garden.
pp. xi, 308 + color photographs. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Nice copy. [First few signatures repeated]. PLANTS W131
1st edition. 8vo, 184 pages, illustrated. Very good condition paperback. 40619. eng
pp. xvii, 434 + Frontis and full page photographs. Illustrated with text drawings. 4to. Original cloth binding, lettered in gold. Hardbound. The author/editor, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was the most important American botanist and horticulturist of his time. He graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1882. At Cornell University he was professor of horticulture (1888-1903) and dean of the Agricultural college and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station (1903-1913). Through numerous writings, and as chairman of President Theodore Roosevelt's Commission on Country Life (1908), he worked for the improvement of rural life. Bailey was influential in establishing horticulture as a respected science. He wrote many standard works on botany and horticulture. Nice copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W133 rear
192 pages, illustrated, photographs by Clive Bournsell, select bibliography, index. eng
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked slightly dimpled front cover and no bumping to corners. 581-646pp. Vintage edition of the Yorkshire magazine 'The Dalesman'.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very tiny creases to corners of covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 252-336pp. Vintage edition of the Yorkshire magazine 'The Dalesman'.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very tiny crease to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, very slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 909-992pp. Vintage edition of the Yorkshire magazine 'The Dalesman'.