GARDENING
ABLETT, WILLIAM H: Arboriculture for Amateurs: Being
Instructions for the Planting and Cultivation of Trees for Ornament
or Use.......
London: "The Bazaar" Office [1880].
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.120, with
advertisements dated 1880 at end. Original brown cloth gilt, no
dustwrapper; binding headbands bumped, spine slightly faded with a
small piece of cloth to side of spine beginning to split, and with a
slight bubbling of cloth to upper cover, internally, endpapers
browned and some foxing, but generally a very good copy indeed.
Ownership label on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 3178
Price: £25.00
BARRETTO, GLORIA D'ALMADA and SAYE, J.L. YOUNG: Hong Kong
Orchids.
Hong Kong: For the Urban Council, 1980.
Coloured photographic plates throughout. 8vo, pp. 108, softcover;
small vertical strip of fading along front side of spine, else
excellent.
Quote Item No. 7612
Price: £9.00
CHITTENDEN, FRED. J. [Editor]: The Royal
Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. A Practical and
Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture. Second edition by
Patrick M. Synge.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1956 & 1969.
Five volumes (including the 1969 supplement). 4to, original
cloth in d.w's. The d.w. to Volume 3 torn and in pieces, a few
other d.w's chipped at headband, otherwise an excellent set.
Quote Item No. 3194
Price: £45.00
FORREST, GEORGE: The Journeys and Plant Introductions of
George Forrest. Edited by Dr J. Macqueen Cowan.
London: Published for the Royal Horticultural Society by the
Oxford University Press, 1952.
First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 5 coloured plates and
numerous b&w plates and folding map at rear. 8vo, pp.xi:252,
original cloth in dustwrapper; binding extremely good; dustwrapper
with a number of small nicks and tears along edge (especially at
ends of spine) foxed; internally, a very small amount of foxing,
else very good.
Quote Item No. 4112
Price: £42.00
HYAMS, EDWARD: A History of Gardens and Gardening.
New York: Praeger, 1971.
First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout partly in
colour. 4to, pp.ix:345, original cloth; fine in like d.w.
Quote Item No. 2971
Price: £15.00
MACINTOSH, CHARLES: The Flower-Garden: containing
Directions for the Cultivation of All Garden Flowers....
London: Wm. S. Orr, 1838.
Hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured extra engraved title
vignette, and 9 hand-coloured plates. 8vo, pp.iv:515, original
green ribbed cloth blocked in blind and gilt, all edges gilt.
Inner joints split. Spine chipped at head and tail of spine
and slightly on lower joint, one coloured plate detached and
slightly nicked on fore-margin.
Quote Item No. 8097
Price: £45.00
MASSINGHAM, BETTY: Turn on the Fountains. A Life of
Dean Hole.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1974.
First edition. Coloured portrait frontispiece, 6 coloured
plates and numerous b&w plates. Large 8vo, pp.256, original
cloth fine in like dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 4115
Price: £10.00
MOORE,
THOMAS & PAUL, WILLIAM: The Florist and Pomologist: a
Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General
Horticulture.
London: at the "Journal of Horticulture" Office, 1871-1882.
Two hundred & fifty-one hand-coloured and chromolithographic plates
of which 6 folding and 1 double-page. Together with 12 uncoloured
plates and woodcuts in the text. 7 volumes 8vo, and 5 volumes
4to. Contemporary half green calf, spines floral gilt in
compartments within raised bands, crimson lettering pieces, in
excellent condition.
Some browning and spotting but generally the plates clean and
attractive. The plates mainly with tissue guards. Five plates have
portions of the tissue adhering to the surface (removable). Nineteen
plates trimmed by the binder just affecting the image on fore or
upper margin. Nine plates trimmed on the lower margin just
affecting the caption on seven and removing the caption on two.
The volume for 1873 bound without title-page.
A handsome run of this journal with its fine plates of flowers and
fruit.
Quote Item No. 5054
Price: £2200.00
London: James Cornish, 1850.
Woodcut illustrations in the text. 12mo, pp.xiv:122, original cloth
with printed paper label to upper cover. Rubbed, upper inner
joint partly split, label browned, traces of another label having
been removed from upper cover.
Quote Item No. 8241
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ROBEY, MELVIN J: African Violets. Queens of the
Indoor Gardening Kingdom. Illustrated by Nanci P. Robey.
San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980.
First edition. Plates & illustrations. 8vo, pp.199,
original cloth; very good in torn & repaired d.w.
Quote Item No. 3901
Price: £25.00
SACKVILLE-WEST,
V.: Even More for Your Garden.
London: Michael Joseph, 1958.
First edition. Plates. 8vo (8¼
x 5½
inches), 199-pages. Original cloth; very good indeed in a very good
dustwrapper which has some light marking and a quarter inch edge
tear to lower panel. The dustwrapper is price clipped.
Quote Item No. 10972
Price: £45.00
THOMPSON, W.: The English Flower Garden, of
Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants. With Ninety-three Figures, Beautifully
Coloured from Nature.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1855. Two volumes in one as issued.
Hand-coloured frontispiece and 93 finely hand-coloured figures on 23
attractive plates. 4to, pp. 187:(1):186:(1), original red cloth
blocked in gilt. Neatly rebacked at an early date retaining the
original gilt blocked backstrip. Contemporary gift inscription on
front free endpaper. Very good.
Quote Item No. 8674
Price: £325.00
WATKINS-PITCHFORD,
D.J: A Stream in Your Garden ..... by 'BB'. Frontispiece
and diagrams by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948.
First edition. Small 8vo, pp.viii:94, original cloth; a
very nice copy in good very slightly edge rubbed d.w.
Quote Item No. 8479
Price: £20.00
WEST, V. SACKVILLE: More for your Garden.
London: Michael Joseph, 1955.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.176, original cloth; some
foxing to endpapers, contemporary signature and date on front free
endpaper, else very good in slightly marked d.w. with some darkening
at spine.
Quote Item No. 5406
Price: £28.00
WEST, V. SACKVILLE: In Your Garden Again.
London: Michael Joseph, 1955.
First edition. 8vo, pp.178, original cloth; a very good
copy in lightly foxed d.w. which has some rubbing at backstrip.
Generally a very good copy in good d.w.
Quote Item No. 5320
Price: £30.00