Gardening

1825. London, James Ridgway, 1825-1830. Royal 8vo. Contemporary green hmorocco. A few minor scratches. Topedge gilt. XX,(224),(3) pp. (Leaves numb. 1-124 + Alphabetical Index). With all 112 engraved plates in beautifull handcolouring. (Plates by J. Hart, M. Hart, W. Hart and Mrs. brown, engraved by S. Watts and Wedell). A few textleaves with faint offsetting from the plates. Plates clean and fine. First edition of this highly esteemed work on Rock-Roses and their cultivated varieties. The work is prized by gardeners for its showry rose-like flowers. They are widely spread and occur in Europe, West and Central Asia, North Africa, North & South America and the Cape Verde Islands. - Nissen BBI: 1922 - Pritzel: 9078 - Sitwell, Great Flower Books p. 141.

New York:: Random House,, (1982). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light foxing to fore-edge of textblock, endpapers, and interior of dj, price-clipped) Books signed by Page are quite scarce. . 2nd printing. A reissue of a classic by one of the most famous landscape gardeners of the 20th century. This describes the author's training and the development of his many celebrated gardens. . . he designed gardens all over the world, from Leeds Castle in Kent to the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Garden at the Pepsi Cola Headquarters in New York, as well as in France, his home for many years. Page was considered the great English garden designer of the 20th century, known for mastering the art of conjuring vast spaces, and creating formal gardens within informal contexts. Originally published in 1962 this edition includes a new preface, and some unpublished pictures from Page's files. Illustrated. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in 1983. Illustrated. Index 382 pp.

Berne: The author, 1818. First Edition. Two parts in one volume, published in July and September 1818. Recent red three quarters leather with gilt titles and red boards. Clean and tidy without major flaws. Original blue paper wrapper bound in. To the front cover paper is written "Par l'auteur" presumably by Seringe. One plate and one folding table (complete.) Rough cut page edges. A little foxing to the pages only. VI + 1 ff. + 244 pp. Text in French. 210 x 130 mm (8¼ by 5 inches). Nicolas Charles Seringe, first Teacher at the Academy of Bern then Professor of Botany and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Lyon wrote a work with the exact description, classification and history of flowers. He sought to avoid scientific language, and to arrange the objects in an easy order, through which one can easily learn about plants, how to propagate them and finally how to use them. Première édition. Deux volumes en un seul volume, parus en juillet et septembre 1818. Cuir rouge trois quarts… Read More

Wingbow Press & Leaves of Grass Press, 1981. Third Printing. Very Good-. Text block is clean and free of marks although the whole is faintly age-toned. Cover and fore-edges show shelf and handling wear with minor creasing, soiling, and edge wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.

A Paris, chez Desenne, Gattey, Guyot et à Chantilly chez M. Hédouin, 1791.
8vo [217 x 134 mm] of (2) ll., 1 folding plan, 60 pp., 20 plates out of pagination. Full green morocco, gilt lattice pattern on the covers framed by gilt stars, spine ribbed and decorated with 5 red morocco gilt-rimmed medallions, red morocco lettering piece, gilt edges. Contemporary inlaid binding.
First edition and first issue of the 21 beautiful engravings of views of the gardens and buildings of Chantilly, one of the copies on large vellum paper.
Brunet, IV, 899.
It is illustrated with a folding plan and 20 mezzotint style plates by Mérigot et Fils.
"Nature and the arts seem to have contributed to Chantilly's embellishment. There are very few places in France which gather so many objects of munificence and pleasure. The luxury and wealth of the buildings, the variety and beauty of the gardens, the abundance of waters, the brightness of the various points of views, the precious collections, rarities of many kinds… it is… Read More

Timber Press, 1976. Used - Fair condition. Binding is tight and interior is clean except for staining in the upper right on pgs 87-124. Covers show shelf and handling wear as well as staining, discoloration, and foxing. A solid, serviceable copy. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

London, printed for Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1679.. TITLE CONTINUED: also, how to plant, make and keep vvoods, vvalks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. With several figures in copper-plates, proper for the same. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land, and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry, shewing the use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; with many other rules, useful for most men. By Moses Cook, gardiner to that great encourager of planting, the Right Honourable, the Earl of Essex. Whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure. SECOND EDITION IN TWO PARTS,1679. A reissue of the 1676 edition with a cancel title page and the addition of A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: with its owne title page (viz). Of all… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Signed by the Barbara Kingsolver and Stephen Hopp on the title page. First edition / First printing. paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Longman, Rees, Cadell and Davies. London. 1803. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). iii-xxvii, 523pp. Bound without half title but otherwise complete, with 13 engraved plates, all but two folding. A clean copy finely bound in recent half burgundy morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments decorated, ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. A very good copy of this popular work.

Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1910. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. Written by Harry Higgott Thomas, the first regular gardening columnist for the Daily Telegraph. Green cloth, gilt embossed, with garden picture on front (happy to send photo as this is unusually lovely spine and front cover! ) Interior shows some foxing in first block of pages but otherwise clean and tight in binding. Former owner's name on front flyleaf. Sixteen color plates and 96 illustrations from photos. Color plates tipped in and overlaid with protective sheet with caption printed on it. Title page lists date of publication as 1910, no other dates shown. Overall a handsome edition.

Very good copy of Volume XXX (30) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1844
Complete with all 67 (5 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-67).
The majority by talented woman botanical artist Miss Sarah Drake.
Includes 21 exotic species of showy orchids (Cattleya, Laelia, Oncidium, Bulbophyllum, Encyclia, Calanthe, Prosthechea, Anguloa, Diaphananthe, Polystachya, Pinalia, Bromheadia, endangered Aerides odorata, etc.), as well as sacred lotus, hibiscus, lupine, mountain hydrangea, crocus, astiria, rocktrumpet, Kashmir sage, hill glory bower, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to… Read More

Very good copy of Volume LXXII (72) of the whole series (Volume 2 of the Third Series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1846.
Complete with all 72 (11 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 4203-4274).
All plates drawn and lithographed by the prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including 14 orchids such asPaphiopedilum, Cattleya, Acineta, Miltonia, Mormodes, Cycnoches, Catasetum, Lycaste and Bulbophyllum. Also includes plates of tropical plants such as Japanese hydrangea, bell-fruited mallee, magnolia, fuchsia, alligator-apple, angel's trumpet flower, lipstick plant, lotus, basket vine, etc.
The dynamic illustrations of flowers and leaves take up the whole plate, and are crammed with details of the seeds and fruits.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was one of the great botanists, professor at Glasgow University and later director of Kew Gardens in 1841. He edited Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1826 onwards, and brought in talented young… Read More

Good copy of Volume XLV (45) or Third of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1818.
With 58 (of 81) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1948-2022). Seven folding plates. Missing 23 plates: 1945-1947, 1952-1962, 1968, 1989-1994, 2001.
Copperplate engravings after an unknown artist, a few engraved by Weddell.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including endangered Jamaica sago, bitter ginger, Cape aloe, sweet crabapple, blood lily, Florida arrowroot, brown widelip orchid, boneset, cherimoya, passionflower, sunflower, etc.
John Sims (1749-1831) was an English physician and botanist. Born in Canterbury and educated at the Quaker school in Burford, Oxfordshire, he went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He became the first editor of the Botanical Magazine after the death of William Curtis in 1799, and edited the magazine from 1801 to 1826.
Contemporary quarter leather binding dry and flaking, spine with five raised bands, chipped orange and burgundy leather title labels, gilt… Read More

Very good copy of Volume XLVI (45) or Third of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1819.
With 49 (of 80) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 2023-2103). Seven folding plates. Missing 31 plates.
Copperplate engravings after an unknown artist, a few by John Curtis and Sydenham Edwards, most engraved by Weddell.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants such as rose, chrysanthemum, carnation, orchid, passionflower, gentian, evening primrose, cinnamon tree, wisteria, Hong Kong gordonia, Chinese holly, stapelia, amorphophallus, etc.
John Sims (1749-1831) was an English physician and botanist. Born in Canterbury and educated at the Quaker school in Burford, Oxfordshire, he went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He became the first editor of the Botanical Magazine after the death of William Curtis in 1799, and edited the magazine from 1801 to 1826.
Contemporary quarter leather binding dry and flaking, spine with five raised bands, chipped orange and burgundy leather title labels, gilt… Read More

London, John Murray, 1882.. Seventh thousand 1882, corrected by Francis Darwin, 190 x 135 mm, 15 text illustrations, pages: vii, 1-328 including index, plus 1 page publisher's catalogue, original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind decoration to covers, original brown endpapers. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, corners slightly worn, small dark stain to to lower cover, pale foxing to endpapers and title page, small ink name or scribble on first blank endpaper, otherwise a very good clean copy. See R. B. Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin page166, No. 1364. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.