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017330London: Baldwin & Craddock 1831 - 1836. A complete set of five volumes. Illustrated with 10 hand coloured plates 7 black and white plates of which three are folding various text illustrations some full page some offsetting of text on to plates some browning and ageing throughout one weak internal hinge in the fifth volume otherwise all firm and tight. Volumes 1 - 3 bound in half calf and marbled boards rubbed joints slightly weak with the book label of Joseph Alexander Walton; Volumes 4 and 5 in original ribbed cloth with rubbed paper labels a little fraying of the spines bookplate of Thomas Bowyer Bower. A scarce complete set. Paxton was an English gardener architect engineer and Member of Parliament best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana the most consumed banana in the Western world. He was appointed head gardener at Chatsworth at the age of twenty and created an important range of glasshouses and frames when the use of such things was in its infancy. First Edition. Mixed bindings. Good. Baldwin & Craddock Paperback
1759019062Edinburgh: R. Fleming 1759. Octavo pp iv 412 some age-toning throughout the title page and the final page rather foxed otherwise extremely firm and tight internally with no tears rebound in a very smart dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards. Blanche Henrey 878. 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. First Edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. R. Fleming Hardcover
1795017372The Strand London & Edinburgh: T. Cadell & W. Davies; Bell & Bradfute 1795. Second edition. Illustrated with a folding plan of a cucmber bed a little foxed and browned slightly frayed at the fore-edge octavo pp xvi 312 fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed a little foxed and age-toned throughout a neat early signature on the title page bound by Spink & Thackray of Leeds in a brown half buckram and boards slightly worn and with an armorial crest at the base of the spine. Blanche Henrey 1000. RARE - a good wide-margined copy. Second edition of the work which brought MacPhail's forcing frame and controversial method of cultivation to the public view. McPhail was gardener to Lord Hawkesbury at Addiscombe Place in Surrey. The brick frame was of his own design and a notable feature of this book is the detailed weather observations covering a complete year together with the precise treatment given to the plants on each day. The frame proved immensely popular and within 40 years Rogers 1839 was to state " an excellent invention that has certainly rendered the forcing of this vegetable more simple.there are few gentleman's gardens and few principal market gardens without them". . Second edition. Half cloth and boards. Very Good. T. Cadell & W. Davies; Bell & Bradfute Hardcover
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
188810048Sacramento Cal: State Office: J.D. Young Supt. State Printing 1888. Slim octavo 23 x 15 cm 96 pages. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and wood engravings throughout. Several errata have been overprinted in purple ink rubber stamp. FIRST EDITION. Byron Martin Lelong 1856-1901 was the Secretary of California's State Board of Horticulture and amongst a generation of farmer-scholars working and publishing in California in the 1880s and 90s. Others included Thomas Garey and William Andrew Spaulding and in a different way Santa Rosa's Luther Burbank the great seedsman. Lelong's published work focused on citrus as well as prunes figs and walnuts. This treatise is mostly a technical manual on the best varieties of oranges and other citrus to plant in California as well as a guide for how to care for them. It also includes recipes for lemon pie orange souffle and citron cake. Illustrations show the physical differences in each variety of citrus including one of the cross section of a "Pumpel-mouse". Boards lightly scuffed with soiling to margins and fading to spine. Corners bumped and gently rubbed with boards bowing out at fore-edge. Rippling to endsheets with page margins lightly toned. Title page offset by frontis. Text has overprinted errata in blue to correct spellings to a few pages. In publisher's dark blue pebble-grained cloth lettered in gilt. Overall very good or better. Presentation slip tipped in at first free endsheet presented by Ellwood Cooper the then-president of California's Board of Horticulture. Zamorano Select 65. State Office: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing hardcover
1896018100Royal Exotic Nursery Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation 1896. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece with as usual a slight tear at the upper join nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs quarto pp 219 slight age-toning and marking a little foxing on the last few pages slight marking along the top of the title page original decorated cloth with paper inlay bevelled edges a bit rubbed and marked the spine dull and age-toned the upper cover unevenly age-toned recently re-cased with new endpapers. In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments to endeavour whether the Veitch gardens and nurseries might be enriched by further additions. He set off by way of Rome and Naples to Ceylon thence overland from Tuticorin to Lahore. He continued to Calcutta and on to the Straits Settlements. In Penang he visited the Botanic Gardens whose curator Charles Curtis was formerly employed by James Veitch & Sons as a plant collector before moving on to Singapore where he visited the Botanic Gardens. He then visited Johore before returning to Singapore in February 1892 when he climbed Bukit Timah the highest point on the island with Walter Fox curator of the Gardens. He then travelled to Buitenzorg West Java where he visited the Botanical Gardens. He also explored the crater of Kawah Papandajan volcano and visited Lake Bagendit near Garoet. His travels then took him to Japan where he met Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum and they undertook a joint plant collecting expedition including ascending the Hakkoda Mountains together. After visiting Korea he reached Australia in 1893. However he found Australia disappointing and wrote that it was easier to collect seed in Japan where there was cheap labour; in Australia "no one will help". He complained that the seeds of many plants "were so tiny he did not know if he was collecting seed or dust". He sent to Kew a collection of dried specimens of 250 species from Western Australia. Later he visited the North Island of New Zealand before returning to England in July 1893. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Printed for Private Circulation Hardcover
1975mon0000039034The Department 1975-01-01. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. in x in x in. Financial results 1964-65. Ex-library book usual markings with a few rips or minor marks on the cover & pages. The Department unknown
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
1837045152London: James Ridgway and Sons Piccadilly 1837. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarto. 428 pages indexed. COLLATES COMPLETE with 48 uncolored plates. Hardcover bound in original green publisher's cloth. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. The corners are a little bumped and there is some pale spotting along the fore edges and top edge of the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Prior owner's 1954 inscription on the front flyleaf of "William Lanier Hunt" INSCRIBED on the title page "From the Author." The text is a little toned but generally clean. There is some offsetting from the plates. Contains 48 uncolored plates. William Lanier Hunt 1906-1996 the 1950s owner was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum. <br/> <br/> James Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly hardcover
1930047313Hampton Wick Middlesex UK: A. W. Darnell 1930. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quartos. 252 3; 252 pages. Indexed at the end of the first volume. Large format books the bindings measure 11 /14 inches tall by about 9 inches wide. Hardcovers bound in early 3/4 green calf with green cloth-covered boards. Bindings signed in type in the verso of the front flyleaves "Bound by Bayntun Riviere Bath England." Raised bands on the spines which have 6 compartments each. Dual leather labels per spine. The compartments are nicely stamped in decorative gilt with floral designs. Some rubbing to the bindings and spotting on the cloth. Faux marbled endpapers. Prior owner's signature of "William Lanier Hunt" on the second front flyleaves. Text is foxed especially at the front and rear. Nicely illustrated throughout. Collates complete with 24 color plates 12 per volume and numerous black and white full-page illustrations. Scarce in such nice bindings. Possibly a custom binding which would make this set unique. William Lanier Hunt 1906-1996 the former owner was known as the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum. <br/> <br/> A. W. Darnell hardcover
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
1992229031MacMillan Great Britain 1992. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. This book encompasses a vast range of plants grown on a domestic or commercial scale in private gardens or present in specialist and botanical collections. They are plants grown for ornament for amenity or for economic use and they include a selection of cultivars. 50000 plants are described including many hundreds of cultivars. It gives concise botanical accounts of species in cultivation throughout the world in line with the latest taxonomic thinking and it gives practical advice on how to grow every plant described. There are over 500 articles on horticultural science and practice newly commissioned from leading authorities. Light foxing to outer page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Horticulture::Gardening; Gardening; ISBN: 1561590010. ISBN/EAN: 9781561590018. Inventory No: 229031. . 9781561590018 This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. MacMillan hardcover
1699017670at the Spread Eagle in Westminster-Hall: M. Gillyflower 1699. Second edition corrected. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine engraved plates of which eight are folding Apparently lacking one plate small octavo pp iv xxxv i 43iii 4 35-309 vii much of the text rather browned and age-toned a fair few signs of use though all very tight the first fifty pages or so have a fair anount of pencil notes and underlinings see illustration with a little more on pages 179-199 contemporary calf rubbed and cracked but soundrebacked with a fairly recent calf spine raised bands new endpapers apparently by Bayntuns. The folding plates are rather worn and creased occasionally frayed at the margins; two have old sellotape repairs and one is rather badly torn across but without loss. The pagination is erratic and appears incorrect but it actuall ties in exactly with the contents pages at the rear. In this copy "An advertisement of J. Evelyn Esq." as mentioned by Blanche Henrey is bound immediately after the title page. LACKING ONE PLATE. Quintinie was in charge of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens under Louis XV. "His book shows his deep knowledge of every aspect of kitchen gardening" - Taylor. George London and Henry Wise were garden designers and nurserymen and formed one of the most important garden design practices in the history of British gardening. They designed formal gardens very much in the tradition of Le Notre and London was also royal gardener to William and Mary. Full Leather. Fair. M. Gillyflower Hardcover
1802017638Fountain Well High Street Edinburgh: Oliver & Co 1802. The title continues "Likewise a new method of improving moss etc together with valuable receipts for destroying vermin on bushes hedges trees etc.". Small octavo pp xxviiii 228 a folding chart at the rear a little stained light age-toning and foxing with 7 woodcut chapter heads and tail-pieces the hinge at the title page cracking slightly but still perfectly sound bound in later green cloth. RARE. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his bookplate on the front endpaper. The folding chart lists the number of plants which can be grown in an acre either Scots or English. The title page states that Hall was late gardener and nurseryman to the Hon. Family of Cromarty. The letters V.D.M.E.D. appear after his name. Apart from that bleak information I can find nothing further on the author. The intriguing thing is that over half the book is devoted to catalogues of florists' flowers which is not mentioned in the title. These were obviously for sale but prices are not given. Nor are there descriptions but the extent of the lists makes them invaluable for cultivar names. Hyacinths Tulips Ranunculus Anenomes Bulbous Iris Auriculas Carnations Pinks finishing with evergreen and flowering shrubs and a few seeds. Hyacinths by no means the longest list contains over 300 cultivar names alone. Whilst it is perhaps not surprising that Harman Payne failed to spot this book for his Florist's Bibliography it is strange that it also evaded the eagle eye of Ray Desmond who fails to mentiong the author in his Dictionary. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Oliver & Co Hardcover
1850017564London: Longman Brown Green and Longman 1850. Small slim octavo pp iv 64 4 errata slip tipped in at page 9 five pages have minor early neat annotations or a line in the margins corners a little bruised otherwise clean and sound internally soft green cloth gilt decoration on the upper cover slightly worn a little faded. From the collection of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his bookplate on the front cover. RARE. The land at Chelsea was purchased around 1808 though most of the plants were cultivated at Battersea and further out the Kings Road site quickly becoming an impressive showroom. It was eventually sold in 1855 to another major horticultural figure - James Veitch. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Longman, Brown, Green and Longman Hardcover
1845016074Edinburgh London & Dublin: W.H.Lizars; S. Highley & W. Curry 1845. Illustrated with two plain and four hand-coloured lithograph plates an extra lithographed vignette title page 12mo measures 164 x 105 mm pp 82 all edges gilt very clean internally red blind-stamped cloth with gilt circular motif on the upper cover slightly rubbed with very slight wear to the spine head and the top of the upper joint. RARE. From the library of the alpine nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his bookplate on the front endpaper. The first book in English to deal with alpine gardening. Twenty-five years later it attracted the sarcasm of William Robinson. This is the true first edition of 1845. There was a re-issue around fifteen years later - this is distinguishable only in the shape and design of the gilt wreath on the upper cover. An extensive article by Charles Nelson on the book and its author can be found in Huntia Volume 13 number 2. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. W.H.Lizars; S. Highley & W. Curry Hardcover
1828018900London: Thomas Kelly 1828. Two volumes 1828 - 1830. Thick octavo an engraved frontispiece an extra engraved title page thirty plain engraved plates pp xxviii 1120 142 directions to the binder and an advertisement leaf a further advertisement page is placed after the second title page some foxing and age-toning throughout a bookseller's small label on each front endpaper Kempson - Chertsey later brown half calf and green cloth very slightly worn. a little faded the cloth a little marked in the second volume. One of the most important works of late Georgian horticulture. McIntosh made important contributions to the designs of Taymouth Castle Stratton Park Pengethley Claremont Laeken and Dalkeith. He never set out to emulate such figures as Lancelot Brown or Humphry Repton but remained at the cutting edge of contemporary horticultural techniques about which he wrote extensively; perhaps his greatest area of expertise being that of hot-house design and heating seen to great effect in this work . A landmark work in the history of practical horticulture. Some copies have the plates coloured - they are plain in this set. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Thomas Kelly Hardcover
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
2021DBS-9781774076750Society Publishing 2021. 1st. Hardcover. New. Society Publishing hardcover
2021DBS-9781774076750Society Publishing 2021. 1st. Hardcover. New. Society Publishing hardcover
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
1842022833Paris: L. Curmer 1842. 1842 - 1843. Two volumes large thick octavo very well illustrated with many fine engraved portraits plans and plates including 32 coloured plates of a very fine quality pp xxiv416; 462 ii one plate is foxed otherwise very clean internally apart from the endpapers which are a little marked becoming a little weak internally; the fore-edge uneven contemporary publisher's green pebble cloth gilt decorated spines very slightly worn. With the book label of the Sussex historian Lindsay Fleming Aldwick Grange. . Cloth. Good. L. Curmer Hardcover
1914022651London: J. & A. Churchill 1914. Many coloured and half-tone photographic plates large thick quarto pp xvi 500 top edge gilt the endpapers rather age-toned original brown lightly decorated buckram dull and slightly worn. As usual the plates are slightly dusty internally and a little waved. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley with his stamp on the front endpaper. A good association copy as Huxley was an RHS council member for many years. VERY SCARCE. A record of the first flower show to be held on the Chelsea site. Although owing its inception to the Royal Horticultural Society it was actually organized by a small private company. The work was published at Cory's expense. First Edition. Cloth. Good. J. & A. Churchill Hardcover
1823018905Edinburgh and London: Bell & Bradfrute; Longman Hurstm Rees Orme & Brown 1823. Illustrated with seven engraved plates of which two are folding a few small text illustrations also octavo pp xvi 574 ii contemporary half morocco rebacked fairly recently with a modern plain calf spine and black label. The plates are foxed and there is some offsetting on to the adjacent text pages otherwise the contents are in remarkably good condition. The original binder's ticket is on the front endpaper - Bates of Hexham. A very detailed account of north European horticulture. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Bell & Bradfrute; Longman, Hurstm Rees, Orme & Brown Hardcover
