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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
1823019868101 Strand London: J. Diggens for R. Ackermann 1823. First edition. Illustrated with 26 fine hand coloured plates of 27 - lacking one plate and a tinted aquatint plan with overlay slip large octavo pp 110 ii with the half-title a little age-toning and occasional light marking the half-title frontispiece and title page have light and faint crease page 69/70 has a paper fault crease to the margin which has left a faint imprint on the surrounding pages otherwise this is clean and sound internally half calf and marbled boards lightly rubbed. From the library of Alan Roger of Dundonnell House and Garden with his signature on the front endpaper. The missing plate is "A Picturesque Dairy". One of the most charming of estate improvement books of this period. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. J. Diggens for R. Ackermann Hardcover
1830018399Edinburgh: Thomas Clark 1830. Small slender octavo pp 40 the title page age-toned and a bit stained the last page marked and stained also a few early tick marks on the list of plants and various pencil crosses within the text recently bound in grey boards with paper label. SCARCE. The author trained at Kew between 180 1 and 1810; he then became Superintendant of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a post he held till his death in 1848. He was responsible for a huge change in the Garden's accessions and oversaw the move to the present site at Inverleith Walk; a transition for which he designed a crude yet effective tree transplanter for moving many mature specimens. First Edition. Boards. Good. Thomas Clark Hardcover
1826016704Thames Street London: C. Andrews 1826. Volumes II and III only small 12mo pp vi 185; vi ii 203 uncut very clean and tight internally original boards with paper labels slightly worn and creased one board with a slightly crushed corner. From the library of Norman Douglas Simpson with his executors label on the front endpapers. Funereal flowers shrubs and small trees flowers and plants of the fields etc. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. C. Andrews 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
1858012712Philadelphia 1858. Book. Good. Card and Cloth. 4.75 X 7.75 inches. Worn covers age-toned and foxed. The rear cover has a large lower-corner tear and edge tear that has been tape-repaired. Moisture exposure and some dampstaining in the first few pages of the upper corner. The almanac is now bound in protective cloth and card-a Gaylamount pamphlet binder from Gaylord Bros label inside rear cover. 60 pages. Includes ads for Landreth's Agricultural Ware-Houses and Landreth's Garden Seeds 15-page Descriptive Catalogue of Garden Seeds from Landreth & Son astronomical calculations by Joseph Foulke M.D. and monthly charts that include moon phases sunrises sunsets and planting advice. 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
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
18953688St. Louis MO: Missouri Botanical Garden. 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 134 pages blue cloth bevelled split at head of spine; x-library but tight <br/><br/>Scientific papers on North American species of Sagittaria and Lophotocarpus Leitneria Floridana leaf reflexion of Yucca alofolia and the mound flora of Atchison County Missouri by Jared G. Smith William Trelease Herbert J. Webber B. F. Bush. Illustrated with 56 plates. Missouri Botanical Garden. hardcover
188919694Sacramento: State Office 1889. First Edition. Octavo; 252pp: 14 plates illustrating 17 olives varietals plus budding and grafting techniques. Fine copy in publisher's black cloth lettered in gold. State Office unknown
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
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
1868C166754London: Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener Office 1868. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary cloth with blind decoration and gilt title to front slightly worn and marked professionally rebacked retaining backstrip new endpapers. Very good. No date c.1868. Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener Office, hardcover
18182111902160200464Suharaya Mohei Yamashiroya Sahei and others 1818. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Suharaya Mohei Yamashiroya Sahei and others paperback
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
1893102421<p>Paris 1893. Prospectus printed in black on thin red/pink paper. Illustrated. Size 215 cm x 275 cm. traces of folds but in a good condition.<br /><br />A system for protecting greenhouses and vines. The wine harvest of 1892 has been disastrous . Michelet has invented a new system for protecting the vines.</p>
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
1900D11309Paris c. 1900. Hardcover. Fine. Half black calf and mottled green cloth gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; oblong folio 381x280 mm; containing 71 mounted photographs by Constant Robert of 65 Avenue de la Bourdonnais credited on the front board of a French exposition of orchids roses lillies irises bonsai trees and fruit. 57 platinum prints and 14 silver prints ranging in size from 89x127 to 164x229 mm mounted to sheets creating a thin border of beige white or pale grey and heavy grey boards arranged 1 to 4 per page recto only. A lavish album just a bit rubbed along the edges. <br/><br/>The Paris horticultural society originated in 1827 and as it grew became the Royal Horticultural Society 1835 then in 1885 the "Societe Nationale d'Horticulture de France." The exposition portrayed here was extensive and possibly associated with one of the great international French expositions of the turn of the century. All but two images are interior photographs of plants or displays including close-ups of specific blooms arrangements of fruit wide views of the room and an array of Bonsai trees in Oriental ceramic pots. hardcover
180658818Philadelphia: Printed by B. Graves No. 40 1806. Thick 8vo. v 1 648 18 index pp. With 1 text diagram for planting Hyacinth bulbs 1 large folding table “Of the progress of vegetation in Pennsylvania compared with that of the some of the famous wine countries of Europe.†Contemporary full tree calf gilt & red morocco spine label gilt ruling on spine chipping head of spine tidemark through lower corner of textblock from wicking occasional slight foxing very light interior uniform toning 1 closed tear at gutter margin of large folding table still a good copy w/ former ownership bookplate & shelf no. on front pastedown. First edition of the first notable horticultural work and nursery seed catalogue printed in the United States by this Irish-American nurseryman who corresponded and traded specimens with President Thomas Jefferson at Monticello as well as cultivated specimens collected during the Lewis & Clark expedition. McMahon before 1765-1816 immigrated from Ireland during political unrest and by 1802 had established his popular nurseries including greenhouses experimental gardens and hot houses near the Germantown Turnpike between Philadelphia and Nicetown. These contained useful and ornamental plants adapted to the American climate and in this detailed volume he outlines month-by-month the instructions for erecting and laying out the plants their cultivation and has incorporated as appendix detailed catalogues of 18 separate classes for available specimens. Eventually McMahon was able to cultivate and began selling a variety of plants collected from the Lewis & Clark Expedition including a fragrant currant Ribes odaritissimum and he also successfully cultivated Osage orange trees Maclura pomifera which were among the most celebrated specimens. The book became a classic work in the United States reprinted in 11 editions from 1806 to 1857 and urged American gardeners to incorporate indigenous species into their ornamental plantings. See: Hedrick History of Horticulture in America to 1860 1988; Alexander Brey Bernard M’Mahon History of Early American Landscape Design National Gallery of Art 2022. Printed by B. Graves, No. 40, unknown
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
1900023265London: L. Upcott Gill 1900. Well illustrated with over 700 text engravings very thick octavo pp viii 1198 13 pages publisher's advertisements top edge gilt very slight age-toning several pages have been clumsily opened leaving slightly rough edges and occasional very minor loss of page margin page 159/160 has a tear into the text without loss the front hinge is cracked and there is weakness through to page vi due to the extreme weight of the book original publisher's embossed cloth a little bleached on both covers towards the front edge otherwise very good. An amazing book with a great deal of information on just about every aspect of late-Victorian horticulture. SCARCE. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary. First Edition. Cloth. Good. L. Upcott Gill 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
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