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36 + xvi pages. Features: Cover illustration of young lass playing grand piano; Great Pyrene fire extinguisher ad inside front cover says their product reduces auto insurance cost; Great illustrated ad for The Rauch & Lang Carriage Company, maker of electric automobiles with worm drive; A City House of Distinction - Photo-illustrated article on the residence of Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, New York, is filled with a priceless collection of antique armor; Wall Papers and Their Selection; House of Mr. S.Z. Poli at Woodmont, Connecticut - two great photos and floor plans of this all concrete home designed by Messrs. Brown and Von Beren, Architects, of New Haven; How to Furnish a House on $1,500 - interesting photo-illustrated article; The Country House of Mr. Russell S. Carter at Hewlett, Long Island, New York - centerfold photos with small floorplan diagrams; A Los Angeles Bungalow Built for $2,400; Early Illustrated Music Titles - an illustrated discussion of the art used on sheet music; Door-Knockers - interesting one-page photo-illustrated article; Collecting Old Pennsylvania (Dutch) "Tulip Ware" (ceramics); Problems of Furnishing a Small Colonial House; Planning for To-Morrow's Furnishings; The New Year's Garden; The Modern Pantry - table and household suggestions; When Mailing Cut Flowers; Raising Watercress Indoors; Attractive color-illustrated ad for Globe-Wernicke Sectional Bookcases on back cover; and more. Average wear and external soiling. Modest moisture exposure to fore-edge of most pages. Centerfold loose but present. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
pp. xiii, 752. Illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs. Edges foxed. Large 8vo. Original full cloth binding, soiled. Hardbound. First published 1939. PLANTS W132
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 112 pages with large full color photos throughout. States include Eastern Washington and Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Signed by author on title page.
End papers covered with flower lists, both in pencil and in ink. A few other notes in pencil to individual flower listings. No name or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright slightly rubbed unmarked boards, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Untrimmed fore and lower page edges. Very clear gilt lettering to spine, floral embossing to front and top of page edges. Tissue guarded frontispiece. 344pp. Written to dispel the myth that alpine plants cannot be grown in gardens. Fourth revised edition. Illustrated.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 19 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), free endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial green cloth, upper board framed and blocked in lighter green and white lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A lovely copy. Inman 123.
Grange Batelière. 1972. In-4 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos frotté. Intérieur bon état. 63 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur et de dessins en noir et blanc. Série des guides pratiques.
1st edition. VG pbk. Illustrated by Hilary Abrahams. 18714. eng
New New Turkish Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 190 p., 1 folding page, color ills. Ali Üsküdârî: Tezhip ve ruganî üstâdi, çiçek ressami. Üsküdârî Ali Çelebi, who brought an unprecedented style and color consideration to Turkish decorative arts at the 18th century is presented in this academic work by Dr. Gülnur Duran. First Edition.
Larousse. 1961. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur bon état. 60 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur et en noir et blanc. Spécialement édité à l'occasion de la quinzaine Larousse 1961.
218 pages. Colour photographs and line drawings abound. Describes over 160 species from every geographic area of Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Good reference copy. Book
pp. 292, 171, 69, 93, 20 + Full page plates, a few chromolithograph plates. Large 8vo. 245 mm. Individually paginated reports from: the State Agricultural Society; the State Dairymen's Association; the State Horticultural Association; the State College; etc. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good condition. AG BX 1
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows some wear, no tears. 333 pages, diagrams, charts, b&w photos.
Sixth impression. xi, 264 pages. Index. Green cloth covers with gilt vignette of leaves on front cover, gilt title on spine. Spots and light marks on covers. Light wear to cover extremities.
petit in-8°, 172pp., illustrations hors-texte, 7 planches de plans de jardins, dont 2 pliants. Cartonnage decore de l"editeur. Tres bel exemplaire. [HA-3]
Orléans Grandes roseraies du Val de Loire 1930. In-8 cartonnage éditeur de 172 pages, planches hors-texte, certaines dépliantes et couleurs. Bon état
1st edition. VG pbk. 11250. eng
First edition, [8], lviii, 347-348, 588pp., proof copy, has extra title-page, and extra prelims and duplicated pp. 347/348 set differently, without the coloured map, 1 one double-page map, orig. green cloth, hinges shaken, signs of labels having been removed from spine, covers decorated in blind, spine gilt.
First edition, small 4to, lix, 588pp., no. 8 of 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, one double-page coloured map, 2 further maps, orig. printed boards, rubbed, re-cased with original spine laid-down, uncut.
First edition, small 4to (230 x 190 mm), lix, 588pp., number 16 of 50 large paper copies, one double-page coloured map, 2 further maps, orig. printed boards, slightly rubbed, uncut.
8vo, XXII-1214-LIII p. Hard Cover + dj VG++/VG+ [P-14] Seventh Edition. Revised by H. K. Airy Shaw.
Volume I covers 1515-1849 while Volume II spans 1850-1950. Volume I is 40 pages plus a large collection of black and white plates. Volume II is 37 pages plus another large collection of full-page black and white plates. Inclusions in this work are restricted to painters for whom, in at least one known painting the inclusion of representational flowers, fruit or still life has been of major importance. This definition allows the inclusion of many of the almost unknown illustrators who, working for scientific or horticultural publications have nevertheless served the two masters - Art and Science. Front endpaper removed from Volume I. Usual library markings to both volumes else unmarked. Average wear to blue boards. No library markings to exterior except darkened patches where library stickers were removed from spines. Bindings sound. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 208pp. A comprehensive compendium of useful plants and the legends surrounding them. With recipes, medicinal and cosmetic uses and attractive drawings of the plants, many in colour.
8vo (185 x 115 mm), iv, 121, [1]pp., very clean internally, cont. calf, boards with gilt rolled tool border, marbled endpapers, a little scuffed and rubbed, the spine dulled, a.e.g. One of the leading nursery gardens in Scotland, originally founded around 1729 by Robert Dickson of Hassandeanburn and later moving to Edinburgh. This catalogue is of particular interest "both for the extraordinary number of plates listed and also for those named which are still considered as rarities, many of them America". Provenance: Ownership signature of Lady Hope of front-free endpaper. JISC locates copies at the BL, National Library of Scotland and Kew; Not listed on OCLC. Cox, A History of Gardening in Scotland. p.166.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original notebook in marbling wrappers. Slight chippings on the cover's extremities. Demy 8vo. (21 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) text with Latin titles. [84] blank pages, color, and b/w ills. Scarce, richly illustrated Ottoman and a rare botanical manuscript on gardening, featuring as well the European flower cultivation of Turkish and Middle Eastern flowers. The manuscript starts with an introduction on gardening and floriculture and mentions trees and proper soils, tree and flower planting methods, pine trees, etc. In the "flowers" section, detailed descriptions on floriculture of Daisy, Begonia, Chrysanthemum, Dianthus, Hydrangea, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Oeillet Marguerite, Geant de Nice, Nicotinia, Generaria, Frimula, Calcealaire, Hyacinthus, Istanbul Lâlesi [i.e. Tulip, or Pauble de Constantinople], Albus, Bulbocodium, Bicalor Empress, Bicalor Emperor, Penoncul, Freesia, Ixia [i.e. Lillies], Cyclamen, Glaieul colvillei, Sparaxis, Cycl. Persicum, Iris, Azalea, Giroffe, Lobelias, Meuflia (Snapdragons), Silene, Gloximia, etc. and 19 numbered illustrations which are hand-drawn in color and b/w show the gardening and decorative elements in English and French styles.
Editions Tchou 1977, in-8 broché, 261 pages, bon état.
