Curtis, WilliamBiblio.com
4 181 résultats
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
folio [42 x 26 cm]; xii, 719, [i, publisher's ads] pp, copper engraved frontis plus 12 copper-engraved plates, one of which is double-page, engraved headpieces, tailpieces and other illustrations. contemporary full paneled leather, worn especially on spine & edges, joints cracked through with covers holding by strings, front blank endpaper chipped, old damp stain to gutter and fore-edge of first 50 pages, text block solid, contents very good. A pic The title, a minor essay in itself, goes on to mention crops, breeding and preserving cattle, curing their diseases, managing the orchard, the brewhouse and the dairy. The plates include farming implements, plants, plans, buildings and one of a dung pit. Most plates have several figures. Fussell p. 37. Later editions had fewer plates. Macdonald 210 mentions only the Dublin edition of 1757 in two volumes which had only 5 plates and the London 1758 edition. A detailed and early agricultural work covering all aspects of the subject.
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
Third edition, 8vo ( 220 x 135 mm), iv, 139, [9]pp., with index and final errata leaf, title page spotted with occasional spotting to the text, cont. half calf, joints cracked. John Graefer (1746-1802) a German botanist nurseryman born in Helmstedt. Trained by Philip Miller at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, one of the most prominent botanical gardens of Europe during the 18th century, Graeffer was subsequently gardener to the Earl of Coventry at Croome Court, Worcestershire, which was being landscaped by Capability Brown, and then to James Vere, of Kensington Gore, a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society. Graeffer struck out on his own as a partner with Archibald Thompson and the prominent nurseryman James Gordon in Gordon's long-established Mile End nursery near the New Globe, Stepney, just beyond the East End of London. In the 1790s Graeffer obtained a recommendation from Sir Joseph Banks, to be employed as head gardener to the king of Naples.?Wikipedia. Provenance: Contemporary ownership signature to head of title page "Eliz. Carill Worsley, 1799." Henrey, 764; originally published in 1789 with two further eighteenth-century editions, a second edition also of 1789 and our third - all are rare. ESTC locates 5 UK copies and one in North America of this third edition.
8vo., Best Edition, with frontispiece and plates; buff boards, oatmeal holland back with paper label printed in red and black, dark red top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Considerably revised and enlarged version of the original Medici edition of 1921.
291p. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original printed wraps, loss to top edge of front wrap. A fascinating and useful study of medicinal plants in Appalachia. PLANTS W133
Foxing to textblock. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xxi, 304 pp, frontis, 300 illustrations from drwgs, some full-page, glossary, bibliog, botanical index, vernacular index, pictorial endpapers. original cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An authoritative survey of 750 herbs used through the ages, arranged alphabetically, and giving the history, origin, uses of each, some with cultivation notes.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes an extensive bibliography.
Two volumes: pp. 1016; 1080. Profusely illustrated. Top edges blue. Top and fore edges of Volume Two slightly stained. Large 8vo. Original full blue cloth bindings, spines gold lettered. Original dust jackets. Hardbound. Very nice set. A comprehensive illustrated reference to British flora. PLANTS W130
020022THOMAS BARNES. A New Method of Propagating Fruit-trees and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased which will not take root from cuttings or layers confirmed by repeated and successful expeience. First edition 1759. With two engraved folding plates a bit foxed and slightly worn octavo pp 42 scattered foxing.Blanche Henrey 434. It seems little known; the system must have been well received as John Rutter mentions it in Modern Eden 1767 - "a very singular method of propagating fruit trees.lately revived by the very excellent gardener Mr Barnes of Elsham". bound with A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. A New System of Agriculture; or A Plain and Easy and Demonstrative Method of Speedily Growing Rich: Proving by undeniable Arguments that Every Land-Owner in England may advance his Estate to a Double Value in the Space of One Year's Time together with several very curious instructions how to feed oxen cows and sheep to much greater profit than has ever yet been known in England. First edition 1755. pp 182 lacking a small corner from the last page without loss of text. Fussell does not identify the 'Country Gentleman' and is slightly credulous of the claim made on the title page. He notes that there was then no copy in the British Museum. bound with BENJAMIN STILLINGFLEET. Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History Husbandry and Physick translated from the Latin with notes. First edition 1759. pp xxx 230. Contains Linnaeus Oration concerning travelling in one's own country; Biberg's Oeconomy of Nature; Barck On the foliation of trees; Gedner Of the use of Curiosity; Beyerstein's Obstacles to the improvement of physic; Haffelgren's The Swedish Pan and the author's own Observations on Grasses which Fussell praises as an important paper. bound with FRANCIS HOME The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. Second edition 1759. pp viii 207 the last few pages foxed. Fussell observes that Home made a very real contribution to agricultural sciences; and Sir John Russell comments -"The book is a great advance on anything that had gone before it not only because it recognizes that plant nutrition depends on several factors but because it indicates so clearly the two methods to be followed in studying the problem - pot cultures and plant analysis". Generally quite clean and firm internally though with slight age-toning. Bound in a simple cheap full leather green and red labels on the spine rather rubbed but sound the rear hinge cracking but firm. . Full Leather. Good. Hardcover
1668015654London: George Sawbridge 1668. 1668. Illustrated with six plates plus woodcut illustrations within the text small octavo pp ii 102 some browning and thumbing throughout with general signs of use the occasional very early small manuscript note the last two pages with slight wear to the margins and minor neat paper repairs early manuscript figures and small scribbles on the blank surface of the final page. Lacking a large corner of pages 65/66 and replaced with a paper repair; the text has been copied in manuscript and the missing portion of the maze parterre has been very carefully copied and is barely noticeable apart from the different paper colour see images. Neatly bound in a fairly modern full calf small raised bands and red morocco label. When first published in 1617/1618 this was the first gardening book intended for the conditions of the North of England and the Country Housewife's Garden the first English gardening book for women. Full-Leather. Good. George Sawbridge Hardcover
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
1930RO20193595GRANDES ROSERAIES DU VAL DE LA LOIRE. 1930. In-8. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 172 pages - nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte - lettrines, bandeaux et culs-de-lampe - nombreuses photos et illustrations en monochromes et en couleurs hors texte + 14 planches depliantes en noir et blanc hors texte en fin d'ouvrage - frontispice en monochrome.. . . . Classification Dewey : 635-Horticulture
01498962 St Paul's Churchyard London: F. & C. Rivington Third edition considerably enlarged and improved. 12mo pp xii 408 rather age-toned and browned the title page spotted restored at the upper corner lacking a tiny portion of the upper corner of the following four pages bound in fairly recent boards with paper title label on the spine. Blanche Henry 1010 - "An instructive little book written professedly for the younger gardener which remained popular over a long period.". . Third edition. Boards. Good. F. & C. Rivington Hardcover
1841018520London: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longmans 1841. First edition. Large octavo illustrated with seven engraved plates and and a engraved portrait frontispiece pp xii 379 rather used and thumbed internally and becoming rather weak the front and rear hinges very cracked and loose the title page detached original cloth rather worn and blotched. The Syon Gardens copy with their stamps throughout. RARE. The extensive sketch of his life was written by his daughter. Knight was the brother of Payne Knight and the second President of the Royal Horticultural Society. Attention was first called to his work in 1795 by the publication of the results of his research into the propagation of fruit trees and the diseases prevalent among them. He used 10000 acres 4000 ha of land he inherited to conduct breeding of plants including strawberries cabbages and peas and built an extensive greenhouse. Knight performed basic physiological experiments on plants which work had been performed before only rarely. He elucidated the effects of gravity on seedlings and how decay in fruit trees was passed on by grafting. In many respects his work looked back to that of Rev. Stephen Hales. His goals were always strictly practical aiming to improve useful food plants by breeding for better qualities. The Downton strawberry was the ancestor of most important modern strawberries until recent times. It is not widely known that he studied variation in peas and found many of the same results as Mendel but he failed to make the same imaginative leap about how these changes took place. Knight intentionally shut himself off from outside scientific influences. He refused to read anyone else's scientific papers until Sir Joseph Banks with whom he had a voluminous correspondence persuaded him to do so. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans Hardcover
1933157832London, Methuen, (1933). M. Abb. a. Taf. XV, 323, (1) S. OLwd. M. Goldpräg. a. etwas verblich. Rücken. Vors. minimal stockfl. Schmutztit. fehlt.
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
1896018101Royal Exotic Nursery Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation 1896. With signed presentation inscription to J. Hollingsworth head gardener at Tredegar Park followed by Margam Park. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece with as usual tears and creases at the upper join now neatly repaired nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs quarto pp 219 slight age-toning and marking some inner joints rather cracked and weak the last third of the book has rather damp-wrinkled pages with light staining on the last few pages original decorated cloth with paper inlay bevelled edges a bit rubbed and marked the spine dull and age-toned andpulled at the head and tail the upper cover slightly unevenly age-toned. 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 decide 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. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Printed for Private Circulation 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
1811020897Air Glasgow Edinburgh: Wilson & Paul; Brash & Reid; A. Constable & Co et al 1811. Octavo pp xxx 355 i marbled edges the first four leaves have a light crease to the lower corner otherwise clean and sound internally though the latter half of the book tends to be a little age-toned contemporary full calf rubbed neatly re-backed with a new calf spine and morocco label. Full Leather. Good. Wilson & Paul; Brash & Reid; A. Constable & Co (et al) 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
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
R320116321GRANDE IMPRIMERIE DE MEULAN L.LAMBERT. NON DATE. In-8. Broché. Etat passable, Couv. défraîchie, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Mouillures. 122 pages - plats tâchés - déchirures sur les plats - nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte - papier jauni - traces de mouillures en pied de page à l'intérieur de l'ouvrage sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture.. . . . Classification Dewey : 635-Horticulture
