Gardening

R. Allen Watkins Honolulu, 1947, 1947 Hard Cover. No Jacket. Signed by Author. HB NoDJ, Third Edition, 1947, Blue decorated with Color Oval of Flowers & white on Cover, Some pages UNCUT, Interior nice, tight Clean very light Wear Fox, F/F, NODJ, Unpaginated, Tiny white spot back Cover. Signed by Author(s). 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Paris: Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1782. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Hardcover 1st, a very nice copy in contemporary leather. Mottled leather with triple-rule border, dentelles, marbled endpapers, edges gilted over red stain, giving a coppery effect. All text pages are bright, straight and clean. The gilted edges are a bit dulled, as is the gilt-stamped spine. Corners bumped and worn; there is a gilt rule on the very edge of the boards, and it is rubbed or broken in numerous places. Overall vg+ despite the wear on the binding. Engraved frontis and title vignette; different from the vignette in the Valade-Cazin edition published later the same year. A poem outlining the author's philosophy of outdoor design, this book was terribly popular and went through many printings and translations very quickly. It was a major influence on British garden design which can still be detected today. 143 pp. French text.

Venice: Giovanni Fiorina, 1592. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Fair Condition. Early vellum, worn and stained. Lacking first blank and A1 (the first text page but otherwise complete). [4 leaves], 52 (of 53) leaves, 4pp table, 2 blank leaves. Rear blanks are worn. Light dampstains throughout, heavier in spots, but not obscuring any text or illustration. Wear and short tears in the margins to the early pages. 20 woodcuts, mostly of grafting methods (one plate repeated 3 times), and 12 vignette illustrations of the months. A passable copy of a rare and important gardening work. Graesse I 581, Brunet 6466. There were editions in 1593, 1612 and 1781. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041984.

Venice: Camillo Borgomineri, 1593. Hardcover. Very Good -. Nuouamente ristampate con le figure de gl'istrumenti, che s'appartengono all'essercitio d'vn vero, & perfetto agricoltore, et con due tauole copiosissime: vna delle dichiarationi di molti vocaboli bresciani: & l'altra delle cose più notabili, che nell'opera sono sparse." [24], 447, [1] p.: woodcut engravings; 21 cm. Signatures: a8 **4 A-2E8 (4to in 8s). Original vellum with handwritten spine title. Woodcut headpieces and historiated initials. Includes index. In Very Good- Condition: vellum is slightly soiled; old dampstain in lower half of pages throughout (generally faint); old repair of edges of last 7 leaves of engravings, not impacting images; tight and bright.

Hereford / London: D. Walker For J. Robson, 1798. First Edition . Boards. Near Fine. 21.2 Cm Tall. Xxvii, Errata Page, 432 Pp. First Edition Of Volume Ii. Price's Own Copy, In Original Boards Covered With Plain Brown Paper, Half Title Present, Original Cords, Spine Paper Worn Away And Corners Rounded With Slight Wear To Corners Of Pages, Contents Clean With Light Foxing On Some Pages, Many Hand Corrections, Some Entire Paragraphs Crossed Out With Manuscript Page Of Text Intended To Replace It, All Possibly Intended For A Second Edition Of Volume Ii Or The 1810 Complete Revision In Three Volumes, But Not Signed By Price. A Unique Pre-Publication, Such Pre-1800 Material Now Scarce In The Market. An Important Contribution To The Nationwide Controversy That Developed At The End Of The 18Th Century Among People Of Education And Taste On The Merits Of The Picturesque Style Of Landscape Gardening As Against The Smoother Effects Of Capability Brown And Humphrey Repton. Price Advocates Here The First… Read More

Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 7. 6.625 x 4.125 x 1.5"; 5 panels, double sided. Jacob's ladder structure. Silkscreen printed on Japanese paper and Tyvek. Signed and numbered by the artist. Cloth bound covers and slipcase. Rebecca Goodale: "A Jacob's Ladder structure that undulates to reveal four short poems and illustrations of beets, daisies, fox gloves, and forget-me-nots."

311pp; With xxiv full page plates of line drawings to rear

Paisley, (Scotland): Printed at The Paisley Herald Office by W. B. Watson, 1874. First Edition, 1874. Binder's ticket of D. Carswell, Paisley. Bound in brown embossed cloth, gilt title "Miltonian Bouquet" front cover, all edges gilt, bright yellow end papers, 46 pages. Near Fine, four pages with lateral creases top edge, very light soiling. RARE, OCLC shows 5 holdings worldwide. A companion book to the author's The Flowers and Plants of Shakespeare, ...Burns, ...Tannahill. Written as an offshoot of the Paisley flower show, where prizes were offered for displays of flower arrangements named in the works of these authors. Apparently the author had entered each category and then published these pamphlets, done in the spirit of uncritical adulation of the great writers. (The Language of Flowers: A History, Beverly Seaton, p.27). Squarely in the genre of Sentimental Flower Books of the Victorian Age, a work that would also fit nicely in a Milton collection.. First Edition. Embossed… Read More

Albany, NY: New York State Department of Farms and Markets. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly scuffed.. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 33rd Annual Report, Part II. Green cloth binding. Index. All 94 full-page color plates present. The seventh monograph on fruits published by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, covering horticultural and botanical aspects of the raspberry, blackberry, dewberry, currant, gooseberry and strawberry. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 614 pages .

Norwood, NJ: Walter J. Johnson Inc. and Tehatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd.. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket worn and sunned.. 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. 9022107582 . Facsimile reprint of this 1620 herbal printed in London. Number 758 in the series, The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Printed in Facsimile. Red cloth binding. Wonderful woodcut illustrations of plants throughout. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

New York: James M. Thorburn & Co.; Sackett & Cobb, Steam Printers, 25 John Street, 1863. Octavo, cord-sewn (22.5 x 16 cm.), [3], 4-31, [1] pages. At head of title: "1863."; at foot of title: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by James M. Thorburn & Co." ~ An annual seed catalogue from this supplier based in New York City. Organized alphabetically, from Artichoke to Turnip, with an introductory "Rules for the Cultivation of Vegetables", and additional lists of grass seeds, seeds available by the bushel and the pound, books, and horticultural implements. The final page contains a list of all the kitchen garden seeds available from Thorburn at the time. Some light age-toning and some dog ears. No wrapper present but all catalogued copies we have located have the same pagination with no wrappers. Some light pencil marginalia to a few pages. [OCLC locates six copies].

London: Matthew Gillyflower & James Partridge, 1693. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. THE COMPLEAT GARD'NER, OR, DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATING AND RIGHT ORDERING OF FRUIT-GARDENS AND KITCHEN-GARDENS: WITH DIVERS REFLECTIONS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF HUSBANDRY, IN SIX BOOKS. By Jean de La Quintinie, translated by John Evelyn, printed for Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, published in London in 1693. This folio edition (31.5 cm x 19 cm) is the first English edition, bound in full leather with five raised bands to the spine. Copper engraved frontispiece of Jean de La Quintinie, with title page printed in red and black. Jean de La Quintinie (1626-1688) was a lawyer, gardener and agronomist who served France's King Louis XIV. On a trip to Italy he was impressed by the gardens he saw, and became fascinated by horticulture. There are 12 leaves of plates, two of which are fold-out. The first fold-out, opposite page 1 of volume I, is a map entitled… Read More

Jacket is chipped along edges with largest chip at top of spine. short 1" tear to top edge of jacket on front cover. Book itself has a solid binding and is free of any interior markings. Some light wear and dust soiling to edge of pages. 352 indexed paged with bibliography. 1.25" X 9.25" X 6.25" 3cmX 23.5cm X 16cm Easy to follow instructions for using lunar agriculture in every phase of gardening from preparing the soil to planting through to harvest using organic methods. Includes chapters on everything from fruit trees to to vines, to lawns, to grain and even house plants. Also includes a chapter on herbs for both culinary and medicinal uses. Includes black and white photos and diagrams. Bonus ephemera included with book: brochure "Herbs at a Glance" from Caprilands Herb Farm in North Coventry, Connecticut

London: Elliot Stock, 1898. A superb example of a vellucent binding. Cedric Chivers (1853 -1929) of Bath revived the technique of painting under vellum. Chivers would execute his paintings on paper which was covered with a translucent skin to form the binding, The covers were then lightly tooled with gold. It is rare to find such a finely preserved fine binding. Signed by Chivers. In 'Days and Hours in a Garden', 19th century Scotish artist and writier, Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825 -1916) takes us through the months of the year, the cherry blossoms, the rooks, the wild ivy etc. etc., reminiscent of a modest walled-garden 'Walden' by Thoreau. VIII MAY "There have been just one or two sweet days, when the white Cherry orchards shone softly against the sky of serenest blue; days when we did not but revel in the joyous present, forgetting quite that ever it could be that "rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" Octavo, vellucent binding, top edge gilt, frontispiece, small woodcut illustrations… Read More

London: Eliot Stock, 1898. Finely bound in straight-grained calf with ornate gilt back, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, by TRUSLOVE & HANSON of Sloane Street (signed on front turn-in), a highly regarde London binder of the period, Bookplate of Coker Court, from the library of George Helyar of Somerset front paste down, later bookplate of Richard F. Turner front end page. Near Fine, small rubs at corners and along top edge of spine, covers lightlly soiled, evidence of a small sticker removal top corner front end page. A lovely little book. . Tenth Edition . Straight - Grain Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.