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Eight section folding sheet. Useful information on growing spring bulbs. Ephemeral and scarce. PLANTS W133
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Presents notable figures from Tudor times to the reign of Victoria. SCARCE.
First edition, 8vo (210 x 130 mm), [16], 259, [1], [12], 120, [2, 'Books on Gardening, Agriculture, and Botany. Written by Richard Weston.']pp., without the Latin title page for the main work, but present for the supplement, cont. calf, rubbed, joints cracked, without spine label. "This in its time was a standard handbook, used by botanists, gardeners, nurseries, seedsmen. It lists trees and shrubs, herbaceous plates, greenhouse plants, stove plants, and seeds according to their Linnaean binomial and English names."?Hunt. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Johannes Georgius Home Drummond de Abbots Grange. Hunt, 647; Henrey, 1483; Pritzel, 10205.
First edition, 8vo (206 x 122 mm), [18], 259, [1], [12], 120pp., complete with supplement and Latin title page for both the main work and the supplement (usually lacking), cont. calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a nice copy. "This in its time was a standard handbook, used by botanists, gardeners, nurseries, seedsmen. It lists trees and shrubs, herbaceous plates, greenhouse plants, stove plants, and seeds according to their Linnaean binomial and English names."?Hunt. Provenance: Bookplate of Edward Winnington, 1786; B. O. Mulligan, purchased from Blackwell's in 1945 with their invoice tipped-in at rear. Hunt, 647; Henrey, 1483; Pritzel, 10205.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 150 coloured illustrations in the text; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Observer 46. Code 1040.572. Marren & Carter, p.168-9.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 12 plates in monochrome and 4 charts, endpapers moderately browned; green cloth, upper board and backstrip patterned and lettered in darker green, uncut, backstrip mildly else a very good, clean copy. Scarce work by a well-known professional horticulturalist from Westchester County.
206 pages, illustrated, glossary, index, light staining to middle page edges. eng
Third edition, with large additions, 8vo (167 x 105 mm), [2], x, [4], 278, [18]pp., with the final advert leaf and additional engraved title page, 3 engraved plates, some light browning to blank fore-edges, cont. full mottled calf, small crack to upper lower joint else a very nice copy in a nice contemporary binding. "This popular treatise, with a title-page and three plates engraved by F. H. van Hove, contains much useful advice and information for the practical gardener. The author... is generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth-century writers on gardening and husbandry."?Henry. Henry, pp.205-206; Hunt, 380; Wing, W2606.
1072 pages. Gutters of both pastedowns cracked. Heavy foxing on half-title page and less heavily on title page and early pages. Joints of spine split at several places; some wear to cover corners. Page edges browned.
38p. + Full Page Photographs. Small 4to. Original printed wraps. PA PAMPH 20_4 BX3 + 2nd c.
Shelfworn covers, corners bumped. Crayon scribble on pages 62 and 63. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
Broché. 30 pages.
Broché. 48 pages.
45 vols., (vol. 43 lacking title page) numerous engraved plates, from the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate, uniformly bound in brown buckram, a couple loose gatherings but overall a very good set. Young wrote many of the articles in the Annals himself, it was a labour of love and exhibited his belief in the importance of agriculture and the benefits of pursuing improvements. "It was intended, among other things, to put before the public the views and experience of the foremost agriculturists, but Young was bitterly disappointed in its sales." (ODNB). Contributors included King George III, writing under the name of "Ralph Robinson", and he had extensive correspondences with George Washington, who's library contained thirty-one volumes of the periodical ranging from 1784 to 1798. This periodical was continued until 1815 when Young's eyesight failed. Provenance: From the library of The Royal Agricultural Society of England.
xi, 55p. Uncut and unopened. Buff colored rag paper. Tall 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards, extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Limited edition. Unsigned and un-numbered. "Of This First Impression of 250 Numbered and Signed copies, 50 are printed on large paper, quarto; the remainder, octavo, on buff-tinted rag paper; all uniformly bound in boards, uncut, paper label. This is an out of series (un-signed & un-numbered copy). Scarce. PLANTS W130