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1799018021Edinburgh: Printed for the author 1799. First edition. Octavo not illustrated pp xii 430 some age-toning throughout a little foxing otherwise sound and tight internally marbled edges contemporary half calf and marbled boards rubbed the spine-head frayed. One of the scarcer of Nicol's works and the first edition seems particularly elusive. Walter Nicol 1769 - 1811 was a Scottish garden and hothouse designer who wrote several books on practical horticulture. An advertisement leaf in this books mentions his terms for garden design and advice at One Guinea per day. He was born in Niddrie. He was employed at a number of estates in Scotland and improved the design and layout of gardens and glasshouses. Nicol is in particular responsible for the walled garden layout at Dalhousie Castle in Midlothian."His works which were of a very high standard became exceedingly popular" - Blanche Henrey 1178. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Printed for the author Hardcover
1797182902Lyon, Robert et Gautier, 1797. M. 9 gef. Kpfr.-Taf. 2 Bl., 414 S., 1 Bl.; 2 Bl., 404 S. Ldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. u. Rverg. (diese etwas verbl.). Einbde. beschabt u. bestoßen. 1 Rücken m. Fehlst. am ob. Kapital. Front. in Bd. 1 fehlt. Gebräunt, teils etwas braunfl.
1726023086Half-moon over against St Dunstan's Church: Tho. Woodward 1726. Folio with a very striking engraved frontispiece three very small text illustrations but lacking the two other plates which seem never to have been bound in pp 22 456 with slight makes to page 161/2 273/4 and 292-3 a tiny tear to the top margin of page 167/8 a minute marginal wormhole running through 199 to 248 otherwise really extremely clean and bright internally an unpressed copy so slight waves to the pages. full contemporary panelled calf with new leather spine and red morocco label. A striking copy. With the bookplates of the Victorian traveller Frances Louisa Swayne the earlier book label of Reveerend Peter Gunning Farmborough and the later bookplate of the Society of the Sacred Mission Kelham. Blanche Henrey 945. . Full Leather. Very Good. Tho. Woodward Hardcover
1791018460Bath: S. Hazard 1791. Latin text with some Greek; a few of Clayton's notes are in English. Engraved frontispiece of the Agnus Scythicus pp 138 very clean internally the hinge at the frontispiece crackig but no weakness bound in a ater unlettered cloth-backed marbled boards rubbed and chipped at the edges but otherwise sound. RARE. The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone both the plant and sheep died. Underlying the legend is the cotton plant which was unknown in Northern Europe before the Norman conquest of Sicily. The Hunt Library Catalogue - Number 474 - devotes four pages to the earlier printings of this work - "One of the most curious little books in the Collection or even in the demesne of bibliography". This copy has an article bound in at the rear entitled Botany; it has 127 pages is probably late-Victorian and I have not traced its source. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. S. Hazard Hardcover
1774199651774. Paris chez les Frères Debure 1774 nouvelle édition revue corrigée augmentée et ornée de figures en taille-douce. Reliure d'origine plein maroquin dos à nerfs filets et fleurs dorés 11 cm x 17 5 cm XLIV+ 558 pages+3 feuillets d'approbation privilège et errata 5 planches dépliantes hors-texte. Texte de l'Abbé Roger Schabol ouvrage rédigé après sa mort sur ses mémoires par M. D. (Dezalier d'Argenville) portrait de l'auteur en frontispice. Reliure en état moyen mais bon état intérieur et bien complet des illustrations
1788019842The Botanic Garden Lambeth-Marsh: Published by the author 1788. Octavo pp 33i eight hand coloured engraved plates with slight age-toning the last twoplates with slight foxing also each plate has a descriptive explantikon page opposite twentieth century boards with cloth spine the upper cover a little faded but otherwise very good. RARE. Designed to illustrat a series of public lectures given by Curtis at his Botanic Garden only two parts each of four plates were ever published. The garden was in Lambeth Marsh near to what is now Waterloo Station. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Published by the author Hardcover
17711314271Halle, J. G. Trm, 1768-1771. 10 Bl., 364 S.; 16 Bl., 328 S., 4 Bl. Register. Marmorierter Ppbd d. Zeit m. etwas Goldprägung (beschabt, Kanten u. Kapitale stärker bestoßen, innen gebräunt u. teils braunfleckig).
1794021678Fleet Street: B. & J. White 1794. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece small thick quarto pp xxxviii 435 with the blindstamp of The Faversham Institute on the title page an ink name and address on the verso of the frontispiece has been cross-hatched out with the result thet the marking shows through to the plate the title page is a little age-toned the dedication leaf a little toned from an early insertion of a piece of paper otherwise this a remarkably clean and wide-margined copy bound in a recent full calf which has just slight signs of use. RARE. The subscribers' list accounts for just sixty copies. First English edition. Full Leather. Very Good. B. & J. White Hardcover
17888439A Paris, à Caen, à Avranches, chez Belin, chez Manoury l'aîné, chez Le Court, 1788. In-8 de [2]-523 pages suivies des planches, plein veau moucheté, dos lisse orné de roulettes, fleurons, encadrements et titre dorés, tranches teintées rouge.
1797021414Pater-noster Row & Strand London: G.G. & J. Robinson; T. Cadell & W. Davies 1797. Second edition "carefully revised corrected and very much enlarged and improved". Very thick quarto not paginated but probably 1200 pages or more with 11 engraved plates one of which is folding the plates are rather foxed and toned the text is slightly age-toned and foxed though not consistently so the hinge at the title page is cracked but in no way weak and the front endpaper IS loose and indeed the firmness and lack of damage to the pages throughout is remarkable; bound in contemporary speckled calf with marginal gilt lining the spine with gilt decoration and morocco label slightly worn overall very neatly re-backed at some time the original endpapers retained. At some time this copy found its way to the United States as it contains the tiny label of the notable horticultural bookseller Elisabeth Woodburn. Balnche Henrey 1087. One of the most comprehensive and detailed descriptions of horticultural practices at the end of the eighteenth century. Authorship is generally attributed to Abercrombie only. Second edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. G.G. & J. Robinson; T. Cadell & W. Davies Hardcover
1776183752Nürnberg, Lochner, 1776. 4°. M. 9 gef. Kpfr.-Taf. 1 Bl., 919 S. Ldr. d. Zt. Einbd. stark berieben, etwas bestoßen. Rücken u. hint. Einbd.-Deckel lose. Buchbl. gelockert. Einige Taf. u. S. lose. Vorsätze leimschattig. u. m. St. Gebräunt, teils braun- od. fingerfl. bzw. wasserrandig.
17976782EBTübingen, J. K. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, [1797]. 12°. 11,5 cm. Titelblatt, 1 Blatt, 212 Seiten, 2 Blatt. Illustrierte Original-Broschur. [5 Warenabbildungen]
1789014961London: G. Kearsley at Johnson's Head in Fleet Street 1789. Fourth edition. 12mo measires 168mm x 105mm pp xii 5 - 164 uncut and unopened hinge at pages 32/33 cracked but sound otherwise extremely clean internally original grey paper covers slightly marked and soiled. An outstanding copy - unpressed and in its original state - of a very scarce book. As this was a book designed solely for almost daily use by working gardeners a copy in this condition is a remarkable survival. Blanche Henrey 1489. "Weston appears to have had an excellent knowledge of nursery gardening and nurseryman's sales catalogues. The book was originally written as the result of Weston being requested by a seedsman of London to write a few short directions for the proper time of sowing seeds which could be given to customers". Paperback. Very Good. G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head in Fleet Street Paperback
1755019284Whitehall New Bond Street St Paul's Churchyard : Printed for the author 1755. the title continues " with the Latin trivial and common English names and an English index referring to the Latin names. Also a general catalogue of seeds for the kitchen-garden flower-garden grass-land etc usually raised for sale and those imported from America". First edition. Latin title two-sided advertisement leaf for the author's works English title 12 259 advertisement leaf; Supplement 1780 - Latin title English title pp 8 120 octavo a little age-toning with a small marginal piece missing from page 8/9 and very slight damage to the next page also otherwise remarkably clean and firm a later binding of red cloth perhaps early twentieth century a good sound copy of a scarce and important work. Our copy includes both Latin title pages which are oftern missing; it also has the extra advertisement leaf also uncommon. BLANCHE HENREY 1483 - "Weston appears to have had an excellent knowledge of nursery gardening and nurseryman's sales catalogues. He was interested in agricultutr and all forms of horticulture and he also made a study of horticultural and botanical literature." HUNT LIBRARY 647 - "This in its time was a standard handbook used by botanists gardeners nurseries seedsmen. It lists trees and shrubs herbaceous plants greenhouse plants stove plants and seeds according to their Linnaean binomial and English names." . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Printed for the author Hardcover
1776183754Nürnberg, Lochner, 1776. 4°. M. 4 gef. Kpfr.-Taf. 2 Bl., 966 S., 36 Bl. Hldr. d. Zt. Einbd. berieben, etwas bestoßen. Rücken m. Kleberest. St. verso Tit. Gebräunt, teils etwas braunfl.
1731018259Paternoster Row & St Paul's Churchyard London: J & J Knapton; A Bettesworth & C. Hitch; J. Pemberton & D. Browne 1731. Sixth edition. The title pages to parts II and III are dated 1730 as is Hereforshire Orchards;the title page to the appendix is 1731. Thick octavo pp xiv 608 25 with an engraved frontispiece and thirteen engraved plates of which eight are folding several plates are folded awkwardly and several have frayed margins but only one has very slight loss of the engraved surface and it is this one which protrudes slightly from the fore-edge some age-toning occasional small splash marks a little wear throughout light early manuscript notes on the front endpapers contemporary full calf a bit worn and marked but perfectly sound lacking tiny pieces at head and tail of the spine the remains of a contemporary manuscript label on the spine. A reasonably good copy of one of the most influential of eighteenth century gardening books. Blanche Henrey 503. Little is known about Bradley's childhood aside from an early interest in gardening and the fact that he lived in the vicinity of London a city at the time with many amateur naturalists. Though Bradley lacked a university education his first publication Treatise of Succulent Plants gained him traction with influential patrons like James Petiver and later Hans Sloane. With their support he was proposed and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712 at the age of 24. Two years later Bradley visited the Netherlands and took an interest in horticulture. He spent the next decade back in England writing treatises on topics related to this central interest like weather fertiliser productivity and plant hybridisation. In recognition of his work in the field and with the thereafter unfulfilled promise that he would found and fund a university botanical garden the University of Cambridge named Bradley its first professor of botany in 1724 a position he would hold until his death. As Bradley was not a wealthy man in his later life and as this was an unsalaried position the newly minted academic continued to focus most of his efforts on making a living through publishing. According to his rival and successor John Martyn as well as his successor son Thomas Martyn Bradley did this at the expense of his students whom he reportedly neglected to even lecture to. Bradley made notable innovations and discoveries across a wide array of disciplines. For example this work included directions for the making and use of a rudimentary kaleidoscope to aid in formal garden design and layout. He also wrote about cooking and was the first to publish recipes in the English language using the then-exotic pineapple as the main ingredient. His History of Succulent plants was the seminal treatise on the topic and his studies of tulips and auriculas helped further accurate theories of plant reproduction. Bradley was also a pioneer in the examining of fungal spore germination and the pollination of plants by insects. His publications additionally contained information on how to build and use greenhouses early theories regarding agricultural productivity and pond ecology. . Sixth edition. Half-Leather. Fair. J & J Knapton; A Bettesworth & C. Hitch; J. Pemberton & D. Browne Hardcover
1726DEZ-8995London, W. Mears, 1726. In-8, plein veau époque, reliure anglaise, dos à nerfs muet, plats encadrés de deux doubles filet estampés à froid et ornés de motifs floraux estampés à froid. Titre, 7 ff non chiffrés, 608 pp, 12 ff non chiffrés. Ouvrage illustré d'un frontispice et de 13 planches, dont 10 dépliantes. Coiffe inférieure manquante, coiffe supérieure abimée, mors supérieur fendu (mais toujours solide, mors inférieur partiellement fendu, coins émoussés, tache sur les plats, rousseurs, papier roussi, tache d'encre et mouillure sur les pages d'index.
17831159Chez Eugène Onfroy 10,5 x 17 Paris 1ère Edition 1783 Ouvrage nécessaire aux propriétaires des terres, aux régisseurs, aux amateurs, aux cultivateurs de tout genre, & à tous ceux qui habitent la campagne. 1783 A Paris, Chez Eugène Onfroy. Trois volumes in-12, reliure d'époque, plein veau raciné, filet encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, caissons dorés avec motif floral, pièces de titre et de tomaison, coupes filetées, tranches rouges. TOME I : XXXIX (dont faux-titre, titre), errata, 597 pages ; TOME II : faux-titre, titre, VIII-590 pages ; TOME III : VIII (dont faux-titre, titre et errata), 413 pages, 1 tableau dépliant (Plan de la distribution des fleurs des parterres suivant les saisons) p. 261, 2 pages non chiffrées (approbation permission), 8 pages (catalogue libraire). Contient différentes parties : I. Observations générales sur l'agriculture et le jardinage - Manuel pour le laboureur. L'année du laboureur II. Addition au Manuel du laboureur - Manuel du jardinier légumiste ou marager. L'année du jardinier marager. L'année du jardinier fruitier - Manuel pour les parcs et jardins d'ornemens (théorie). Etiquette de libraire collée sur le contreplat du tome I : "se vend à Bordeaux chez Gintrac, libraire rue St Pierre vis à vis du puits de la Samaritaine, maison de M. L. G. Labottière." Un coin du tome 1 usé, deux autres coins légèrement usés, coiffe supérieure du tome I un peu fragile, une petite épidermure aux mors du tome 1, mais très bon exemplaire. M. de la Bretonnerie (1720-1795) est un agronome français qui consacra sa vie "à son goût et à son activité dans tout ce qui concerne les travaux de la culture des terres et du jardinage". Ces trois volumes constituent un tableau très intéressant des réalités économiques des campagnes françaises à la fin de l'ancien régime. Bonne condition et intérieur très frais. (B43) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Livre
17831159Chez Eugène Onfroy 10,5 x 17 Paris 1ère Edition 1783 Ouvrage nécessaire aux propriétaires des terres, aux régisseurs, aux amateurs, aux cultivateurs de tout genre, & à tous ceux qui habitent la campagne. 1783 A Paris, Chez Eugène Onfroy. Trois volumes in-12, reliure d'époque, plein veau raciné, filet encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, caissons dorés avec motif floral, pièces de titre et de tomaison, coupes filetées, tranches rouges. TOME I : XXXIX (dont faux-titre, titre), errata, 597 pages ; TOME II : faux-titre, titre, VIII-590 pages ; TOME III : VIII (dont faux-titre, titre et errata), 413 pages, 1 tableau dépliant (Plan de la distribution des fleurs des parterres suivant les saisons) p. 261, 2 pages non chiffrées (approbation permission), 8 pages (catalogue libraire). Contient différentes parties : I. Observations générales sur l'agriculture et le jardinage - Manuel pour le laboureur. L'année du laboureur II. Addition au Manuel du laboureur - Manuel du jardinier légumiste ou marager. L'année du jardinier marager. L'année du jardinier fruitier - Manuel pour les parcs et jardins d'ornemens (théorie). Etiquette de libraire collée sur le contreplat du tome I : "se vend à Bordeaux chez Gintrac, libraire rue St Pierre vis à vis du puits de la Samaritaine, maison de M. L. G. Labottière." Un coin du tome 1 usé, deux autres coins légèrement usés, coiffe supérieure du tome I un peu fragile, une petite épidermure aux mors du tome 1, mais très bon exemplaire. M. de la Bretonnerie (1720-1795) est un agronome français qui consacra sa vie "à son goût et à son activité dans tout ce qui concerne les travaux de la culture des terres et du jardinage". Ces trois volumes constituent un tableau très intéressant des réalités économiques des campagnes françaises à la fin de l'ancien régime. Bonne condition et intérieur très frais. (B43) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Livre
1750015882Leyden & Amsterdam: Samuel Luchtmans & Meynard Uytwerf 1750. Illustrated with 13 finely engraved plates one with a tear and one with tears along the folds one full page plan within the text small quarto pp xxiv 6 412 32 contents a little age-toned but otherwise remarkably clean pages unpressed lacking the half-title contemporary full calf rather worn particularly at the corners joints cracked lacking the lower panel of the spine and a small piece at the head original marbled endpapers. LACKING one plate. "French edition of the first treatise in Dutch to provide a theoretical basis for garden design. It also addressed various practical issues including the cultivation of plants propagation and stove and hothouse technology the latter presumably embodying the knowledge held within the family - the author's father having grown the first pineapple at Meerburg in 1658" - Patrick Taylor . Full-Leather. Good. Samuel Luchtmans & Meynard Uytwerf Hardcover
1764019061Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell; R. Fleming 1764. Octavo pp iv 443 7 some age-toning throughout a little soiling here and there pages 331-362 stained in the lower margin otherwise firm and tight internally with no tears contemporary calf rubbed and a little worn and creased neatly rebacked with a new spine raised bands and green title label new endpapers. Blanche Henrey 883 mentioning that not all copies of this edition have the two plates and ours does not. In effect the third edition though the preceeding two have the title "The Scots Gardiners Director". Sir James Justice 1698 - 1763 was a Scottish horticulturalist/gardener. His works on gardening were distributed in much of Britain and Ireland. He reportedly had a passion for botanical experiments which he pursued at the expense of his finances and family. Indeed the later miniaturist John Kay wrote that tulipomania was the cause of him parting with his estate at Crichton and the purchase of a smaller one. His divorce and expulsion from the Fellowship in the Royal Society has been blamed on the expenses he put into greenhouses and soil mixtures. He is nevertheless a noted figure in Scottish gardening with a claim to be the father of it. The genus Justicia is named for him. Full-Leather. Good. A. Kincaid & J. Bell; R. Fleming Hardcover
1785117822caen Manoury 1785 A Caen, Chez Manoury, 1785, 3 volumes in-8 de 125x195 mm environ, (4) ff., XXIV, 410 p., (1) f. - (2) ff., 416 p. - (2) ff., 546 p. Complet des 12 planches dépliantes (sur papier bleuté). Demi reliure à coins, dos à cinq nerfs portant titres et tomaisons dorés, plats de papier rose, tranches rouges. Reliures restaurées (mors, coiffes, dos et coins), traces sur les plats, quelques rousseurs (surtout tomes II et III), travail de vers discret sans atteinte au texte, des traces de mouillures marginales au long du tome III (plus importantes sur les quarante derniers feuillets), des rousseurs éparses sur les planches (une planche tachée en photo), mais état satisfaisant malgré les défauts signalés.
17504823DBAus der achten englischen Ausgabe übersetzt. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1750. 8°. 16, 410 (recte 393) S., (1) Bl. Halblederband der Zeit mit verg. Rückentitel.
17504823DBGöttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1750. 8°. 16, 410 (recte 393) S., (1) Bl. Halblederband der Zeit mit verg. Rückentitel. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 4823DB|4823DB_2 [2 Warenabbildungen] Aus der achten englischen Ausgabe übersetzt.
17486860CB2 Bände. Paris, Paulus-du-Mesnil, 1748. 8°. (12) Bl., 379, (13) S.; (3) Bl., 480 S., (5) Bl. Mit 20 gef. Holzschnitt-Tafeln und 47 Textholzschnitten. Marmorierte Lederbände aus der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung und roten Rückenschildern.
