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1830023339Royal Exchange & Catharine Street Strand: Effingham Wilson & Joseph Onwhyn 1830. Second edition with considerable enlargements. Octavo pp xxxviii 221 not illustrated very clean internally original green boards slightly marked a later cloth spine the remains of the original label very darkened laid down. Second edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. Effingham Wilson & Joseph Onwhyn Hardcover
1810017753St James's Street London: John Harding 1810. A new edition improved by Samuel Curtis. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates octavo pp viii 271 very light occasional foxing or age-toning but overall very clean internally the printing of the title page slightly faint in places half calf and marbled boards rubbed the spine dull with faint lettering slightly worn at its head. Bookplate of Sir Edward W. Watkin. Covers the Hyacinth Tulip Ranunculus Anemone Auricula Carnation Polyanthus and Bulbous-rooyed Plants. Blanche Henrey 1003. Limited edition. Half Leather. Good. John Harding Hardcover
199408004Mexico: Secretaria De Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos Direccion General Juridica 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Brown leatherette with gilt lettering. Light soil to top edge of page block otherwise fine. The dust jacket has a couple of edge tears and a small amount of rubbing and soil to the rear panel. Protected in a clear Mylar cover. One of only a thousand copies printed. A beautifully produced book with special attention to paper graphic design and typography. A large heavy book 12 pounds which will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. 922 pages with Index. The page preceding the title page is a full-page color portrait of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari who wrote the Preface. His Preface starts: El campo es para los mexicanos un hilo conductor de su historia y es raiz y razon de los mas arraigados anhelos de campesinos The field is for the Mexicans a thread of its history and is the root and reason of the deepest yearnings of peasants. This book published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources General Legal Directorate reports the legislation created in President Salinas' time in office 1988-1994 pertaining to agricultural and water resource issues. Text in Spanish. Secretaria De Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos Direccion General Juridica Hardcover
185673463Columbus Ohio: S. D. Harris. Good. 1856. Softcover. 14 issues of the OHIO CULTIVATOR 1856. Some toning and edge rubbing chipping; Issues meaures 12" x 8" and average 16 pages in length. Illustrated. Good condition. . S. D. Harris paperback
1833AQ25264London: John Harris 1833. 175pp 33. With engraved 19 plates and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's red roan-backed dark-green cloth boards lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed corners bumped. Internally clean and crisp. An anonymous primer for young children of the fundamentals of gardening particularly the seasonal planting of flowers; first published in 1831 as a part of the popular Little Library series published by John Harris. Moon 303 3. Third edition. 8vo. John Harris hardcover
1772021679London & York: R. Horsfield & H. Dunover; W. Tessyman & J. Todd 1772. 1772 - 1781. Four parts each with title page. Book the First 1772 pp 2 30 advertisement leaf; Book the Second 1777 with the half-title pp 34 advertisement leaf; Book the Third 1779 with the half-title pp 32; Book the Fourth 1781 with the additional general title page for the whole work pp 54. Some age-toning and light marking throughout an early signature on the first title page - M. Berens a closed tear to the general title page but otherwise very sound and generously margined bound in a simple modern quarter calf and boards. Blanche Henrey 1036 1040 1042 1043. William Mason 724 - 1797 was an English poet divine amateur draughtsman author editor and gardener. "Mason was both a good horticulturist and an effective landscape gardener. As well as giving directions for gardening the poet traces the history of the art through the writings of Bacon Spenser Milton Temple and Addison and the garden work of Southcote Shenstone and Capability Brown.". First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. R. Horsfield & H. Dunover; W. Tessyman & J. Todd Hardcover
1828017561Edinburgh and London: John Murray 1828. Second edition greatly improved and enlarged. Illustrated with six engraved plates octavo pp xxxviii 527 sadly the plates are heavily foxed which has also affected the neighbouring page howver the remainder of the text is remarkably clean and very tight and sound; bound in a contemporary half calf rubbed rebacked sympathetically with a new calf spine. lightly tipped-in at the first page is a small advertisement leaf warning of 'sundry ignorant and uneducated persons' attempting to pass themselves off as having been trained by Henry Steuart - this seems to be scarce. Steuart 1759 - 1836 was a Scottish landowner agricultural improver soldier and classical scholar. Owing to bad health Steuart abandoned most of his literary work and experiments in arboriculture became the chief interest of his life. In September 1823 a deputation from the Highland and Agricultural Society which included Sir Walter Scott and Lords Belhaven and Corehouse visited Allanton and reported on the improvements effected there by Steuart's system of transplanting large trees. Though he had had to contend with an unfavourable soil and an exposed position he attained at no extraordinary expense the power so long desired of anticipating the slow progress of vegetation and accomplishing within two or three seasons those desirable changes in the face of nature which he who plants in early youth can in ordinary cases only hope to witness in advanced life. From this time Steuart frequently corresponded with Sir Walter who imitated several of Steuart's experiments at Abbotsford. When in 1828 Steuart published this work Scott reviewed it enthusiastically in the Quarterly March. When Scott visited Allanton in January 1829 in company with Lockhart he noted in his journal: Sir Henry is a sad coxcomb and lifted beyond the solid earth by the effect of his book's success. But the book well deserves it. The book was also favourably reviewed by Southwood Smith in the Westminster Review by Professor Wilson Christopher North in Blackwood's Magazine April 1828 and in the Edinburgh Review March 1829. It had a large circulation in America. In his preface to the second edition Steuart claims to have made the first attempt to apply the principles of physiology to practical arboriculture and to have created the new science of phytology. Second edition. Half Leather. Good. John Murray Hardcover
1821017740London: James Ridgway 1821. Octavo pp ii 528 slight age-toning but otherwise surprisingly clean internally bound in a recent brown quarter calf and cloth very slightly rubbed. Later editions of the book were published under the title 'A Hothouse and Greenhouse Manual Or Botanical Cultivator' but this first edition is very scarce. Sweet was a prominent botanist and gardener of his day. He published both expensive colour plate works and also practical manuals such as this. This is one of the earliest books to contain so much specific information on propagation. First Edition. Quarter calf and cloth. Very Good. James Ridgway Hardcover
1832016730London: Effingham Wilson 1832. Two volumes small octavo pp xxii 358; 304 with both half-titles slight age-toning and foxing but otherwise sound throughout original brown boards slightly marked and worn neatly re-backed with bew spines and paper labels. This copy is from the Circulating Library English College Lisbon with their small blind-stamp on the title pages and a label and number on the front endpapers. As a landscape gardener Puckler-Muskau is considered of European importance. As a writer of books of travel he holds a high position his powers of observation being keen and his style lucid animated and witty. First British edition. Boards. Very Good. Effingham Wilson Hardcover
1991x-0792312791Kluwer Academic Pub 1991. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 414 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. Kluwer Academic Pub hardcover
1802019028London Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood 1802. Second edition enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates a little browned and marked pp 432 vii slightly used throughout the blank page following the front endpaper is creased and lacking a corner bound in a later brown cloth. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young but I can find no justification for this Fussell certainly made no such assertion. Second edition. Cloth. Good. Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood Hardcover
1816017034Paternoster Row London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1816. Two volumes. Illustrated with a folding plan in the first volume 12mo measures 180mm x 108mm the first volume is partly unpaginated the second volume is 4 211 i slight age-toning and the occasional blemish the frontispiece is awkwardly folded and along with the title page a bit browned but otherwise clean and sound internally half calf and boards rubbed lacking most of the spine labels with the tiny armorial bookplate of William Booth Grey - the son of George Harry Grey 1737 MP for Staffordshire in 1761 and succeeded as the 5th Earl of Stamford 30 May 1768. He is considered to be the artist of two plant collages in the style of Mary Delany acquired by the British Museum in 2008. RARE. William Salisbury botanical nurseryman has been erroneously described as a brother of Richard Anthony Salisbury. In the preface he states that from 1791 he was employed by the Board of Agriculture in conducting experiments on the growth of plants ; he may have been previously engaged as a nurseryman. In 1797 he was gardener to J. Symmons F.R.S. at Paddington House Paddington and in the same year entered into partnership with William Curtis at his garden at Queen's Elm Brompton. After Curtis's death in 1799 he removed the garden to Cadogan Place Sloane Street where he held botanical classes. He died in 1823. The site is now the private gardens of Cadogan Place. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Hardcover
1876017838London: Longmans Green & Co. 1876. Third edition. Illustrated with a stunning tinted lithograph frontispiece two folding plates of ring growth octavo pp x 235 24 page publisher's catalogue edges uncut slight age-toning but otherwise very clean internally the front hi nge is slightly weak and is exposed for about 40mm at the top original green cloth with only slight signs of wear the spine head slightly pulled. A work that seems little-known as indeed is the author within horticultural circles. Greenwood had an estate in Hampshire at Brookwood Brockwood House near Bramdean. The tree-lifter was the Colonels invention for transplanting trees up to 30 feet in height with their ball of earth intact a feat the apparatus apparently made possible for a single individual to do at a rate of one tree per day. The somewhat aptly-named Colonel Greenwood was very enthusiastic about the importance of trees to the landscape and the first edition was published in 1844. Colonel Greenwood is said to have excavated local archaeological sites and was a keen geologist referred to as the father of subaerialism ascribing the greater inequalities in the earths surface to atmospheric influences. He published a further book in 1857 entitled Rain and Rivers. His main thesis was the supremacy of rainwash as an agent of land sculpture and the realtive unimportance of streams and rivers. It was said in his obituary that 'had he fallen amongst geologists in early life instead of amongst thoroughbreds he would doubtless have occupied a leading place among men of science'. He does not appear in Hadfield's History of British Gardening nor more surprisingly in Desmond's Dictionary. Third edition. Cloth. Good. Longmans Green & Co. Hardcover
1814014918Edinburgh and London: Archibald Constable & Co. 1814. Third edition. 12mo half-title title page pp xiv 398 uncut slight age-toning slightly uneven fading of the title page and opposing page otherwise exceptionally clean and sound internally very neatly and recently rebound in grey boards with paper label on the spine. A superb copy uncut and unpressed in a very sympathetic binding. Walter Nicol 1769 - 1811 was a Scottish garden and hothouse designer who wrote several books on practical horticulture. 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 1187. Third edition. Boards. Very Good. Archibald Constable & Co. Hardcover
19472092902143901535Toyokan 1947. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Toyokan paperback
18679337New York: William Wood & Co 1867. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo each part separately paginated 152 212 166pp. Indices. Engravings and woodcut vignette illustrations by S. Edwards Todd. Publisher's purple cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards soiled and faded spine dulled. Hinges starting but sound and clean internally. Very good. <br /> <br /> Nicely illustrated edition in original cloth of this comprehensive American horticultural work from Thomas Bridgeman 1786-1850. Bridgeman was born in England and emigrated to the U.S. in 1824 opening a seed store. He authored several other titles on gardening. <br /> <br /> Both the first edition of 1866 and this enlarged 1867 edition are surprisingly scarce. William Wood & Co unknown
51-1644Buffalo New York: Cosack & Company1877. Chromolithograph by Clay Cosack & Co. Buffalo NY. Sheet size 19 x 13.5 inches.Letterpress descriptive pages in English and French.From Treasures of Art Industry and Manufacture Represented in the American Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1876. Edited by C. B. Norton. Buffalo New York: Cosack & Company1877. Buffalo, New York: Cosack & Company,1877 unknown
1831019750Ave Maria Lane London: Whittaker Treacher & Co 1831. New i.e. Third edition with additions. Hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece octavo pp xliv 464 the half-title and the last page are age-toned otherwise the contents are extremely bright recently bound in grey boards with a paper label on the spine. After an introduction on literary treatments of flowers and bouquets the text is arranged alphabetically by English vernacular name Latin names used when no common name available and each section includes history cultivation details and quotations from poets on the subject. The conclusion offers six pages of "General observations" on the care of potted plants. Published anonymously the author was Elizabeth Kent the sister-in-law of the writer Leigh Hunt. She advertised botany classes for young ladies in The Times. New Edition. Boards. Very Good. Whittaker, Treacher & Co Hardcover
1802017846London Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood 1802. Second edition enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates with stains and virtually detached pp 432 vii untrimmed and unpressed the first few pages rather weak a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages otherwise clean internally though rather weak original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and erroneously entered 1828. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley with his stamp on the front endpaper which also contains a contemporary signature. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young but I can find no justification for this Fussell certainly made no such assertion. Second edition. Boards. Fair. Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood Hardcover
1926022173Paris: A. Vincent & Cie 1926. Two volumes folders folio cloth-backed decorated boards with fabric ties slightly worn 124 plates with several pages of text loose-leaf slightly age-toned very slightly worn occasionally at the margins but overall quite good. SCARCE. A heavy set - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Cloth-backed folder. Good. A. Vincent & Cie Hardcover
1808020196St James's Street Fleet Street & Poultry London: J. Harding; J. White & J. Mawman 1808. Second edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the Woburn Beech seven other plates of which three are tinted and folding octavo pp 4 6-277 an advertisement page extremely clean internally recently bound in green quarter morocco and marbled boards. A very smart copy. Pontey was a Yorkshire nurseryman and planter and tree-pruner to the Duke of Beford. Second edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. J. Harding; J. White & J. Mawman Hardcover
1956021385Toky Osaka Moji and Nagoya: The Mainichi Newspapers 1956. Well illustrated with 124 monochrome plates quarto pp 106 56 very clean internally bound in silver clith very good condition in the original pink slipcase which is just slightly worn. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. A splendid monograph including English captions to the plates Japanese main text and lengthy English resume. First Edition. Cloth in slipcase. Very Good. The Mainichi Newspapers Hardcover
1834019859Edinburgh London & Dublin: Fraser & Co.; Smith Elder & Co.; W. Curry Jun. & Co. 1834. Two volumes bound in one. Illustrated with 20 engraved plates including a map small thick octavo pp viii 368; 344 very slight age-toning and foxing of the text the plates are a little more marked recently bound in a simple green quarter calf and cloth very good. . Quarter leather. Good. Fraser & Co.; Smith, Elder & Co.; W. Curry, Jun. & Co. Hardcover
1932021306London & New York: Ernest Benn Ltd & Charles Scribner's Sons 1932. Folio illustrated with 40 plates pp 44 a little age-toned internally original blue buckram and brown cloth slightly worn the spine age-toned and bit marked. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Ernest Benn Ltd & Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
1892008433Sacramento: A. J. Johnston State Printing Office 1892 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pp. 4 458 plus frontispiece 53 plates including 2 color plates of Beneficial Insects numerous text illustrations. Index. Publisher's original pebbled black cloth gilt lettering and pictorial element of the Goddess Pomona to spine. Corners of two leaves slightly crunched ink stamps to front and rear endpaper. A very fine copy. First edition of this Biennial Report. Includes the Reports for both 1893 and 1894. Covers the normal reports to the Governor etc. Also includes transactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth State Fruit Growers' Convention and of course information on the Horticultural Exhibit at the Midwinter Fair held in San Francisco 1894. The frontis illustration shows a portion of the exhibit; the second section of the book provides the article Exhibit at Midwinter Fair and Horticultural Day Tree pp. 443-451 including a photographic plate showing the Mission Olive Tree labeled the Horticultural Day Tree planted at the west side of the Fine Arts Building at the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park. This was one of the famous and historic trees at San Diego over a century old "from which dates the first period in the horticultural history of California." Other key articles include those on apricots cherries Fruit Growers in the Santa Maria Valley another on California Almonds etc. . A. J. Johnston, State Printing Office hardcover
