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prima edizione, br. ed. 8vo, bandelle pp. 346, tavole a colori f.t., f.to 22x14, come, nuovo Collana: Biblioteca Adelphi n.261 Innumerevoli sono i libri sui giardini intorno a noi. E ancora più innumerevoli le persone che amano e curano giardini e piante. Ma, se dovessimo dire qual è il libro sul giardino, il vero livre de chevet per ogni «giardiniere appassionato», quello che accoglie l’idea di giardino in tutta la sua immensità (in fondo, scrive Borchardt, «dei sei giorni della creazione uno intero era stato dedicato a creare un giardino») e in tutta la sua leggerezza, sprofondando al tempo stesso nei minimi dettagli, tale libro sarebbe senz’altro Il giardiniere appassionato. Non vi è nulla di altrettanto minuzioso e severo (quale delizia sarà, per tutti, leggere in coda a queste pagine il prezioso «Catalogo delle piante misconosciute, nuove, perdute, rare, singolari»!), nulla di così ampio respiro, fra i libri sui giardini, come quest’opera goethiana per eccellenza, fondata sull’affinità elettiva tra la pianta e l’anima umana. Borchardt la scrisse alla fine della sua vita, negli ultimi anni Trenta, e non poté vederla stampata. La sua esperienza di giardiniere era maturata in decenni di vita italiana, soprattutto in ville della Lucchesia. Così questo libro non considera solo l’essenza universale del giardino, ma quella sua manifestazione specifica, incantevole e felice, che è il giardino in terra italiana. Il giardiniere appassionato fu scritto in Italia nell’estate del 1938 e pubblicato, postumo, nel 1951 a Zurigo in una edizione incompleta. Solo nel 1968 l’editore Ernst Klett di Stoccarda lo ha proposto integralmente.
Features: Cover Artist - Shuji Wako; Saga Goryu; Chiko School; Ichiyo School; Ikenobo School; Ikenobo School; Shinto - Japan's Spirit of Endless Renewal; Ohara Iemoto & Iemoto Designate; Rysei-Ha; Sogetsu School; Koryu Shohtohkai; Soami School; Ohara School; Japanese Gardens in England and elsewhere; Past, Present and Future - some thoughts. Average wear. Cup ring on front cover. A sound copy. Book
In 8º (21,5 cm) 159 pp. A cura di Barbara Briganti e Anna Jeronimidis. Con un ritratto fuori testo e un disegno. Brossura editoriale con bandelle.
467pp., with bl/w ills., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie des Fachbereichs Geschichtswissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, S110459
xvii, 294, v + color photographs. Numerous text drawings. Square 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Nice copy. PLANTS W131
121p. Color pictorial title page. Illustrated with full page lovely color photographs. Numerous black and white photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Probably from the McFarland Company Library. The first edition of "How to Grow Roses" was published as a pamphlet in 1910, shortly after Pyle and his father took control of Conard and Jones, a mail-order nursery and seed business. He was very active with McFarland in American Rose Society. Nice copy illustrating early twentieth century rose varieties. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W135
192p. + color Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page color photographs, some in black and white. Numerous text drawings. ** J. Horace McFarland Company's copy with numerous penciled notations and text changes for the 1968 edition. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, decorated and lettered in black. 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. Hardbound. Nice copy. Unique copy of showing numerous changes. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W135
196 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition, with decorative title in green and black, and illustrations in the text, free endpapers very lightly spotted; original ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in green, backstrip lettered in green, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at lower edge, wanting lower half of backstrip, and with one closed tear on rear panel. Vita Sackville-West contributes chapters 9-12, based on her broadcasts from October 1933 to January 1934. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, B16 (recording 'dustwrapper not seen').
24p. Each page illustrated with a color drawing. Printed in four colors at the E.A. Johnson Company press. 8vo. Original color printed wraps. Seventh printing in an edition of 5,000 copies. Very nice copy. PLANTS W132
105p. 12mo. [133 x 79 mm]. Worn contemporary calf binding. Lengthy Latin poem, based on classical models, in praise of flowers and gardens. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 1
116 pages. Fiction: Lucas; Sahara Roses. Features: A Kensington Garden; Interview with Agatha Christie; On Getting Out of America; I Love Stately Homes; Three Country Cottages; Follow That Car; A Kind of Magic - Mollie Harris recalls an Oxfordshire village; The Vanishing Village; Recipes; Journey to the Massif Central; Fashions for Women and Children; Temporary Homes; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
355p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, spine faded, top of spine chipped
pp. xi, 242 + Plus color Frontis and full page photographs. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ** Black and white Plates marked with inked checks by the Photo Department of J. Horace McFarland Company. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn with loss. Hardbound. First Printing. 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. PLANTS W132
Montpellier sans date, vers 1900. In-8 broché, 30 pages. Trés bon état.
Hardback reprint in a protected dust jacket. VG/VG. ISBN 1854711172. 20067. eng
256p. Full page drawings in color and black and white. Blind embossed ownership on title page. 12mo. Original full color decorated cloth binding. Hardbound. Nice copy. A good guide for identifying, gathering and drying herbs. PLANTS W130 Left Rear
216 pages, 16 pages of great black and white photos. 'Hello Canada' is the first definitive biography of Foster Hewitt. Few Canadians will ever forget the sound of his voice as he screamed the words "He shoots! He scores!." Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very faint creasing to upper edge. 192pp. Includes 141 coloured photographs of heathers.
166 pages including index and black and white illlustrations. How to let earthworms work for you to build and condition your soil for better plants, more beautiful gardens and richer crops. Includes instructions for propagation and use of domesticated earthworms in biological soil-building. Average wear. Some soiling externally. Ink stamp upon front cover and half-title page. Solid copy. Book
Features: Up and down the Laurentians; the dramatic Deas Island Tunnel - article with great photos; Through the Annapolis Valley; Take your children to Storybook Gardens, a project of the London Public Utilities Commission (PUC); History with a high fence - Fort Macleod has captured much of southern Alberta's history and put a stockade around it; Time for all - public clocks in Canada; Imperial has already printed 25 million road maps!. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
PARIS, Lib. Ac. Didier et Cie - 1873 - in-8 - broché - 420 pages + Table IX & Errata (1) - rousseurs éparses - Envoi manuscrit au Comte de La Roche-Brochard - Bon exemplaire - très rare
467pp.richly illustrated in colour and in bl/w, 27cm., illustrated softcover, with ex-dono at titlepage, very good condition, [Exhibition catalogue: Gustav-Lübecke-Museum, Hamm, 15 Okt.- 14 Jan. 2001 & Landesmuseum Mainz, 4 März - 24 Juni 2001], S85126
Editions Vilmorin Andireux, 1974. Fort et grand in-8 relié plein cartonnage éditeur illustré de 677 pages illustrées. Bon état
pp. 349, (39) color plates illustrated by Violette Niestle. Line illustrations by Paul Schauenberg. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Hardbound. Nice copy of an authoritive work on the subject. PLANTS W130