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19672081002109002263Seibundo Shinkosha 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 220p both illustrations Size: 26cm Seibundo Shinkosha paperback
19672110502150301688Seibundo Shinkosha 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Seibundo Shinkosha paperback
018685Editions Medicina Rara Ltd Not dated 1977 or later . A facsimile of the 1535 Frankfurt edition. Small octavo illustrated with many woodcuts not paginated pp 88 extremely clean internally bound in marbled paper covered boards in very good condition. In a velour-lined sheepskin box one of three hundred copies bound thus this copy being number XCIII. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Hucley with his stamp on the front endpaper. Boards in box. Very Good. Editions Medicina Rara Ltd Hardcover
1850023406Great Marlborough Street London: Henry Colburn 1850. 1850 - 1852. A new edition in four volumes corrected revised and enlarged. Two portrait frontispieces small octavo pp xl 429; ii 396 a folding pedigree; xiiii 399; iv 448 very clean and tight internally original blind-stamped cloth slightly worn. All volumes have been repaired and re-cased and there is loss to three of the spines but still a very pleasing and useable set. A heavy set - extra postage may be necessary. . Cloth. Good. Henry Colburn Hardcover
021394The Bell in St Paul's Churchyard: Jo. Martin & J. Allestry First edition. "Sylva Or A discourse of forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. By J.E. Esq; As it was Deliver'd in the Royal Society the xvth of October MDCLXII. upon Occasion of certain Quæries Propounded to that Illustrious Assembly by the Honorable the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. To which is annexed Pomona; Or An appendix concerning Fruit-tTrees in relation to cider; the Making and several ways of Ordering it. Published by express Order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium Hortense; Or Gard'ners Almanac; Directing what he is to do Monethly throughout the Year." Tall quarto pp 16 120 4 20 ii 21-40ii 41-50ii 55-83 iii with the license leaf the errta leaf and the two unpaginated leaves in Pomona which are often not present the first title page printed in red and black as is the Kalendarium title and also the name of each month is in red two small woodcuts in the text a small stain at the bottom margin runs throughout slight staining to the gutter margins of the last few pages the cintents are unpressed so slightly waved throughout vey slight signs of use internally slightly age-toned the first blank is creased and frayed the license leaf also but less so a neat contemporary manuscript note on page 83 the hinge at pages 32/33 cracked but without weakness the hinge at the title page similar but less so contemporary full calf rubbed scuffed and marked but still very sound loss of the leather surface here and there "SYLVA" faintly written on the spine recased at some point not recently and with later endpapers. One of the most influential books on forestry ever published. Janson Pomona's Harvest page 146; Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel M. M. Hunt No. 296; Blanche Henrey British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 Volume 1 No. 132; Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Sylva a selection of The Rare books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library No. 32. First Edition. Full Leather. Good. Jo. Martin & J. Allestry Hardcover
1976020730Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 1976. Illustrated pp 120 very clean internally large octavo a folding map at the rear brown and green cloth in very good condition. Limited edition of 250 copies this one being 181. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Hardcover
1897019987187 Piccadilly London: Privately printed for Arthur L. Humphreys 1897. Octavo pp xvi 123 top edge gilt the other edges uncut decorative endpapers original decorated cloth faded but sound the corners slightly worn the spine darkened the fore-edge very slightly bruised. SCARCE. Originally published in 1829. I know nothing of the compiler who doesn't even get a mention in Desmond's Dictionary. Second edition. Cloth. Good. Privately printed for Arthur L. Humphreys Hardcover
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
1638018234Roma: Pier Ant Facciotti 1638. Small thick quarto pp 12 520 26 illustrated with an engraved title page an engraved frontispiece though here bound in after the preliminary pages and 45 plates of 46 - lacking the plate which occupied pages 55/56 some age-toning and slight foxing throughout the plates a bit more browned but without the intense browning often found in this book overall quite tight internally one preliminary page and pages 395-398 protruding slightly and a little chipped and frayed at the margins full vellum binding probably original rather used and marked but quite sound and firm the upper and lower cover a bit warped and bowed the front hinge cracked but firm and showing traces of old glue. The first Italian edition. Ferrari 1584 - 1655 was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome and a botanist. He devoted himself till 1632 to the study and cultivation of ornamental plants and published De Florum Cultura which was illustrated with copperplates by amongst others Anna Maria Vaiani possibly the first female copper-engraver. The first book deals with the design and maintenance of the garden and garden equipment. The second book provides descriptions of the different flowers while the third book deals with the culture of these flowers. The fourth book continues with a treatise on the use and beauty of the flower species including their different varieties and mutations. The plants featured in Ferrari's research came from Cardinal Francesco Barberini's private botanical garden the Horti Barberini a garden which was under the care of Ferrari. Several Cape bulbs are illustrated for the first time - most notably Haemanthus coccinea but also Amaryllis bella-donna Brunsvigia orientalis and Ferraria crispa. Hunt Library Catalogue rather downbeat in its comment - "The fame rests more on the quality of the engraved plates than on their contribution to botanical knowledge". Perhaps so but horticulturally I feel this is a fundamental work for its period. Nissen BBI 620; Pritzel 2877. Vellum. Good. Pier Ant Facciotti Hardcover
1878015548Clerkenwell London: Gilbert & Rivington 1878. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece one plate and three plans octavo pp 2 272 one fox spot to the title page and the opposing flimsy otherwise very clean internally red cloth very slightly worn spine a little faded spine head slightly pulled. A much better than average copy. With a catalogue of the plants arranged according to the natural system. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good. Gilbert & Rivington Hardcover
1878015549Clerkenwell London: Gilbert & Rivington 1878. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece one plate and three plans octavo pp 2 272 slightly age-toned internally rear endpaper marked very slightly weak brown cloth slightly worn spine lacking a piece at the head and a little torn. With a catalogue of the plants arranged according to the natural system. Second edition. Cloth. Good. Gilbert & Rivington Hardcover
1878015695Clerkenwell London: Gilbert & Rivington 1878. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece one plate and three plans octavo pp 2 272 very clean internally front hinge cracking slightly but very firm red cloth very slightly worn spine a little faded spine head slightly pulled. A much better than average copy. With a catalogue of the plants arranged according to the natural system. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good. Gilbert & Rivington Hardcover
19440117551944. Scrapbook. Good. Spiral Bound. 11 x 15 inches 28 X 38 cm. Spiral-bound black card covers with pictorial inlay embossed floral design and gilt-stamped title Scrap Book. The covers are bowed a bit with light staining to the front cover rubbing wear to both covers and some edge wear. 31 pages numbered in pencil in the upper- corners. A magazine article pasted on one page is dated September 1944 which offers the best indication of when this scrapbook was created. The writing and grammar is that of a young student and this scrapbook was quite possibly a school project though neither a grade nor comments are found. Contents are found on both recto and verso of the pages and recto only for some pages. Inside the front cover is affixed a booklet titled "Our World in Pictures; The Cattle Industry." The first page has a pasted introduction hand-written on ruled notebook paper and pasted to the scrapbook page. Illustrated with newspaper and magazine articles as well as one color illustration and nonconsecutive numbered black and white photographic plates from a series depicting various aspects of beef production from pasture to processing plant to butcher. Paperback
1908biblio1036<p>Can be used with Watson's Howell's or Piper's Flora</p> University of Washington paperback
19672083002116405333Seibundo Shinkosha 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Seibundo Shinkosha paperback
1995018667Santa Barbara: Allen A. Knoll 1995. Very well illustrated horizontal quarto pp 144 a review copy label on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally cloth-backed pictorial boards in very good condition in a dustwrapper with only very slight signs of use now nicely protected in a removable clear cover. Reputedly published in a low print run. The gardens were created over four decades by opera singer Madame Ganna Walska who owned the property as a private residence from 1941 until her death in 1984. She was assisted in landscape planning and garden design by Peter Riedel Ralph Stevens Lockwood DeForest and Joseph Knowles. The garden was opened to the public in 1993. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Allen A. Knoll 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
1856016075London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1856. First edition. Small octavo pp viii 296 slightly age-toned illustrated with engravings in the text a large corner has been cut from the title page to remove a signature the name of the author has been written on the title page and on the reverse an inscription states that this is a presentation copy to the botanist A.D. Cotton from J. Skan . Recently bound in a simple quarter leather and cloth and quite a good bright copy overall. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Hardcover
021519Lugduni Lyon Flora MONSPELIACA sistens plantas numero.1850 ad sua genera relatas et hybrida methodo digestas ; adjectif nominibus specificis trivialibusque synonymis selectis habitationibus plurium in agro Monspeliensi nuper detectarum et earum quae in usus medicos veniunt nominibus pharmaceuticis virtu'tibusque probatissimis. Published Benedicti Duplian 1765. Octavo pp xvi543 i with three engraved plates several engraved tail-pieces Hortus Regius Monspeliensis: sistens plantas tum indigenas tum exoticas No. Mm. Cc. ad genera relatas cum nomonibus specificis synonymis selectis nominibus trivalibus habitationibus indigenarum hosptiis exoticarum secundum sexulem methodum digestas. Published Fratrum de Tournes 1762. Octavo pp 14 548 32 a light marginal stain at the head of the frist few pages a lttle age-toning with 6 engraved plates one folding one slightly shaved by the binder.Linnaeus C. Termini Botanici Explicati. Editio Nova Auctior Lipsiae Leipzig 1767. Title page with engraved vignette pp 39 a little age-toning and staining. A stunning set remarkably clean internally bound in rwo matching volumes contemporary full calf the spines gilt with raised bands and red morocco labels a little wear with slight loss to the spine heads marbled endpapers an early bookseller's catalogue description pasted to the endpaper. . With the bookplates of Kenneth Lazenby a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. The Hortus Regius Monspeliensis was the first book to be published in France using the Linnean classification. The Flora Monspeliaca was the first regional flora using the Linnean classification. Soulsby 643a. . First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. 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
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
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
1896023081Berlin: Paul Parey 1896. Fifth edition. Well illustrated with 5 coloured and 145 plain plates of flower bed designs large octavo very clean internally original brown cloth decorated in b lue green and cream very slightly rubbed. A charming work on the art of "carpet bedding". The designs give detailed plant lists. Cloth. Very Good. Paul Parey Hardcover
1879015680London: Sampston Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1879. Illustrated octavo pp xxx 371 publisher's catalogue 10pp all edges gilt a neat contemporary inscription facing the half-title otherwise very clean and bright internally decorated cloth gilt very slightly rubbed the spine slightly pulled at the head and foot but overall a very attractive copy. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good. Sampston Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 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