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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.
1st edition. Good in marked green cloth with black decoration and lettering. 11994. eng
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.
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.
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, 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
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., First Edition thus, with coloured title-vignette and numerous fine coloured illustrations (the majority full-page) in the text; laminated pictorial boards, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original [unillustrated] edition of 1937, with fine plates by Rust. This is the first impression of a later printing produced by Pavilion for Bramley Books; see Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A33b.
24p. Illustrated with cartoon like drawings. Front and rear pages foxed. Oblong 8vo. Original full paper binding illustrated with a cartoon drawing on front cover. Walter Huber (1886-1961) Sports Cartoonist for Philadelphia Inquirer and Bulletin and some Washington, D.C. newspapers, as well as the political cartoonist for the Harrisburg Patriot newspaper. He also served as the Art Director for J. Horace McFarland Co. 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. Nice copy of an ephemeral book. SCARCE. PLANTS W132
1st edition. VG hbk bound in glazed pictorial boards. ISBN 0002180944. 22038. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 382pp.
pp. vi, 246 + photographs. Bookplate of Sarah Elizabeth Freeman. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Spine darkened. Hardbound. First published 1943. Nice copy. PLANTS W133
8vo quadrato pp.106. With numerous colour photographs. English. Hardcover , english and chinese text. guida pratica ai bonsai cinesi
Fantastic vintage 6-panel fold-out brochure measuring 24" x 9.5" when open. Undated but appears to be from the early 1900s. Pre-dates the Swartz Bay Ferry terminal. Great photo of the quaint Pierce-Arrow tour vehicle - a stretched car holding upwards of 16 passengers. Several ads for local businesses. Includes large map of the tour route/southern Vancouver Island. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A delightful early Victoria collectible! Book
Features: The Berried Anemone; NESS - National Environmental Satellite Service; Three Critical Aspects of Underwater Photography; The Mussel's Secret Formula; Semisubmersible Ships; Fish and Food Poisoning; Growing Crops on Sand Dunes; Rare Albino Turtle; Voices in the Deep; The Unlikely flower gardens. Sound copy. Book
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured photographs (many full-page) throughout; green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 202pp. Concentrates mainly on food plus features on fashion, gardens, drink, health, money etc.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor damp effect to about six lower pages corners in the middle of the book and no bumping to corners. 202pp. Concentrates mainly on food plus features on fashion, gardens, drink, health, money etc.
In-8, plein veau raciné de l'époque, dos lisse orné d'un décor de filets, palettes et fers spéciaux dorés (quelques épidermures et petits accrocs de cuir), contemporary marbled calf, spine elaborately decorated in gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt (some schuffing and abrasions on the boards), xvi, 528, xv, (1) p. First edition. Though largely devoted to agricultural economy, the work, as indicated in the title, contains thoughts on the poor and the poor laws with a chapter entitled "Of the Poor laws. Amendments proposed" and "Of Population". (For this first edition: Goldsmiths, 11249. For the second edition in the same year: Higgs 6207. Kress, 7183). A very fine copy in contemporary calf, well margined, crisp and clean.
8vo., First Edition, with 60 fine mounted coloured plates, some very light age-browning as often; original pictorial red cloth, gilt back, small tear at head of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. Scarce in ths condition. Inman, 69.
[London], [s.n.t.], [anni '80 del'900?], in-8, br. editoriale illustrata, pp. 15,[1]. Titolo in copertina: Functions and Work of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
4to., with mounted coloured frontispiece, 7 fine mounted coloured plates, 32 plates in monochrome and 8 diagrams in the text, some very light occasional spotting; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, firm copy. Bright copy of a classic text, first published in 1929 by the former supervisor of the rock garden at Kew.
4th edition. Good in green cloth with red lettering to the spine. Covers bumped. 8762. eng
72 pages. Index. "Siting, planning and constructing a rock garden is quite a challenge, but with the help of this book and its clear, step-by-step instructions, you can be sure of success." - from dust jacket. Abundantly illustrated throughout with colour photography. Very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
