ND [c.1750]. Full Calf. A rare survival of understated elegance. A charmingly primitive miniature Lady's Drawing Book. Very Good. Rubbing to spine and tips. Small chip to head of spine. 12 mo. (4 3/8 x 3.25 inches). Speckled calf finely ornamented with gilt tooled trailing grape vines surrounding the perimeter... More about Drawings S. Banks
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1966/67. First Printing of the First American Edition. Boards. Two Volume Set. Both volumes are in Fine Condition with Fine Dust Jackets. Quarto (8.25 x 10.75 Inches). Red boards with gilt lettering. Volume I: 335 pp. Fully illustrated with 187 color plates and... More about Plants of the World The Higher Plants. Volumes I & II
London: The Falcon Press, 1951. First printing. Cloth. Fine condition in a Near Fine DJ. Octavo (5 x 7.5 Inches). Green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Pp. 141, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. From The Countryside Series. For the amateur tobacco grower; the history, cultivation, curing and regulations of homegrown tobacco in... More about Tobacco Cultivation in England
London: The Garden Book Club, 1959. First printing. Boards. Fine condition in a Near Fine DJ. Octavo (5 x 7.75 inches). Teal boards with black lettered spine. 171 pp., Illustrated with 21 color & b/w plates. From author and collector of largest primrose garden in Britain, the first book devoted... More about Primroses
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1910]. First printing. Boards. A Near Fine copy. Very light soiling to prelims, text and plates bright and clean. Octavo (6.25 x 8.25 in). Moss green lettered boards with tinted photographic plate set in dark green surround. Pp. xi,116, eight colored plates. Edited by R.... More about Lilies. Present Day Gardening
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1871. First edition. Cloth. A Very Good copy. Clipped title page, lightly rubbed edgewear. 12mo. (5.5 x 7.75 inches). Green beveled cloth boards with gilt lettering and floral design in black to front board and spine. AEG. iv, 285 pp, engraved frontispiece, 5 colored plates with... More about The Amateur's Flower Garden; A handy guide to the formation and the management of the flower...
Portland: Timber Press, 1986. First American Edition. Boards. Fine in a Fine DJ. Octavo (5.75 x 8 Inches). Brown boards with gilt lettered spine. 445 pp. An comprehensive handbook on alpine plants; plants appropriate to rock gardens and alpine houses, by the vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society and the Alpine Garden Society. More about Ingwersen's Manual of Alpine Plants
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, December 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 115-128pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, November 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps.105-114 pp., with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, October 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 95-104 pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, September 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 85- 94pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, August 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 75-84 pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, July 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 65-74 pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, June 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 55-64pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, May 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 45-54pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, April 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 35-44pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, March 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 25-34pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize- winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, February 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. 15-24pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize-winning specimens and newly... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
Ghent: Gand, imp. Eug. Vanderhaeghen, January 1892. First printing. Printed Wraps. Fine. Folio (10.75 x 14 inches). Gray printed wraps. [1-4] 5-14pp. with 2 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards. Publisher's adverts printed on wraps. A fine monthly horticultural review introducing the most notable plants and flowers; both prize-winning specimens and... More about L'Illustration Horticole. Revue Mensuelle Des Plantes Les Plus Remarquables Des Introductions...
London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1956. First printing. Boards. Fine in a Fine DJ. Octavo (5.5 x 8.5 Inches). Red boards with gilt lettering to spine. B/w frontispiece, illustrated with 12 color plates [1-4] 224 pp. Identification and harvest information for both edible and poisonous fungi. More about Britain's Wild Larder Fungi
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1993. First printing. A Fine copy in Fine D/J. Octavo (8.75 x 11.25 in., 222.25 x 285.75 mm). Brown buckram with silver lettered spine. Pp. 299. Fully illustrated with color photographs. The cultivation, history and scientific background of the primula family. More about Primula
New South Wales: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1967. Revised and Enlarged Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good D/J. Minor crease and tears along back lower and upper edge. Minor chipping along upper and lower spine on D/J. Folio ( 9.25 x 11.5 in., 235 x 292 mm). Gray... More about New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour
Grandview, Missouri: Diversity Books Ltd., 1967. First printing. A Fine copy in a Fine D/J (price clipped). Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 in., 146 x 216 mm). Robins egg blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Pp. 351. Fully illustrated with colored and black and white photographs. More about Gesneriads and How to Grow Them
London: John Van Voorst, 1863. Second revised. A Near Fine Copy. Octavo ( 6.5 x 9.5 inches). Green embossed publisher's cloth with gilt emblem on cover and lettering on spine. Head and foot of spine softened, corners lightly frayed. AEG. Tidy owner's signature and location dated 1868 on prelim. A.... More about British Wild Flowers Illustrated by John E. Sowerby.; Described, with an introduction and key to...
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1996. First printing. A Fine copy in Fine D/J. Octavo (7.75 x 10.5 in.) Black buckram with gilt lettered spine. Pp 176. Fully illustrated with color photographs. More about Orchids of Kenya