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FLORA HISTORICA: OR THE THREE SEASONS OF THE BRITISH PARTERRE. Historically and Botanically treated; with observations on planting, to secure a regular succession of flowers, from the commencement of Spring to the end of Autumn. To which are added, The most approved methods of cultivating bulbous and other plants, as practised by the most celebrated florists of England, Holland, and France. In two volumes.
London: E. Lloyd And Son, 1824. Hardcovers. No dust-wrappers. Volume I: li, 354 pages. Endpapers lightly browned; very light spotting to text-block throughout. Volume II: xii, 464 pages. Foxing between half-title and contents pages, and throughout index. Both volumes bound in green cloth, gilt. First edition. Octavo. A very good set.
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FORMAL GARDENS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND Their Planning and Arrangement Architectural and Ornamental Features. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and fifty-three reproduced from photographs by Charles Latham with forty-six additional colour plates showing the gardens during the 1987 and 1988 seasons.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. Hardcover. Unclipped pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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GARDEN DESIGN and Architects' Gardens. Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic.
London. John Murray, 1892. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xviii, 73[74] pages. Original olive green cloth. Octavo. First edition. Cloth a lightly rubbed; light wear to corners and head & heel of spine; light spotting to endpapers; else a very good, clean copy of this scarce book.
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ITALIAN GARDENS. With an introduction by Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1989. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. Reprint. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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KALENDARIUM HORTENSE; OR, Tha Gard'ners Almanac, Directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year. And What Fruits and Flowers are in Prime. The Eighth Edition, with many useful Additions.
London.R. Chiswell. 1691. Engraved frontispiece, [2], 175, [15]pp. Engraved plate on page 157. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Octavo. Small hole in A4, another in C4 with the loss of two letters; else a very good copy. Bookplate of Sir Richard Brooke. Bart.Wing E3498.
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LA PLANTE cent vingt planches en héliogravure d'après des details très agrandis de forms végétales. Introduction de Charles Nierendorf.
Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, No date [circa 1929]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xv, [1], 120 pages, each printed on one side only and bearing reproductions of photographs. Original green cloth, gilt. First French issue of Urformen der Kunst [1928]. Enfpapers lightly spotted; soft crease in front endpaper; else an excellent copy.
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LES FAUVES D'AFRIQUE. Photographiés chez Eux. D'après cinquante-huit clichés de l'Auteur une carte en noir.
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie, 1910. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 267 pages. Illustrated. Folding map. Original cloth, gilt. Quarto First edition. Rear inner joint a little tender; else an excellent copy.
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MR NOAH AND THE SECOND FLOOD. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
London.Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1973. 63pp. Black & white illustrations by Michael Foreman throughout. Crimson cloth gilt. Pictorial dust wrapper. Octavo. First Edition. Signed by Author. A fine copy.
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MY GARDEN IN SPRING. With new introductions by Anthony Huxley. Together with, MY GARDEN IN SUMMER, MY GARDEN IN AUTUMN AND WINTER. With new introductions by Anthony Huxley.
Newton Abbot. David & Charles reprints, 1972. Hardcovers. Unclipped dust-wrappers. Octavos. Slight mellowing of wrapper spines; else a near fine set.
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NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF KENT. With Nine Plates and a Map.
London: R. H. Porter, 1907. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 465 pages. Black & white frontispiece, eight hand-coloured full-page plates and a folding map. Original green cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate. Ownership inscriptions on front endpaper, including that of the Kent historian Philip Rogers. A very handsome copy. One of 300 copies printed.
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PARADEISOS. The Art of the Garden.
London: Cassell Publishers Limited, 1990. Hardcover. Unclipped pictorial dust-wrapper. 29.9 x 24.1 cms. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote
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PEDIGREE. Essays on the Etymology of Words from Nature. The New Naturalist No. 56.
London: Collins, 1973. Hardcover. Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy.
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PELARGONIUMS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. Illustrations Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst. Volume 1.
Kirstenbosch. National Botanic Gardens, 1979. Hardcover. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Illustrated in colour. Second edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. There are two signatures to the half-title, which we cannot decipher.
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SHELL LIFE An Introduction to the British Mollusca. Revised by A. Laurence Wells. With upwards of six hundred illustrations 188 of which prepared in colour by W. J. Stoke.
London.Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1945. 443pp. Original cloth gilt. No wrapper. New edition. Slight bump to top outer corner of upper boards; else a very good copy.
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SYMBOLORUM ET EMBLEMATUM EX RE HERBARIA DESUMTORUM CENTURIA UNA COLLECTA.
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THE AQUARIUM: It's inhabitants, structure, and management. New edition.
London.W.H. Allen & Co. 1884. xv,[i],[1],316pp. plus 4pp. adverts to rear. 239 black & white illustrations throughout. Original pictorial boards gilt. a.e.g. Octavo. Minor wear to head and heel of spine and corner tips. Very small tear with loss of paper surface to bottom edge of rear free endpaper; else, a very good bright copy.
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF WESTERN GARDENS. A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day.
Cambridge. Mass. The MIT Press, 1991. Hardcover. Pictorial Dust-wrapper. 4to. A fine copy. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ENGLISH GARDENS. Designs for the garden from the collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1609 to the present day.
London. Wiedenfeld and Nicholson, 1989. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. First Edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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THE BIRDS OF CITES and How to Identify Them. Illustrated by Helga Boullet Erritzoe and the Author. Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Philip.
Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 1993. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper as issued. De-luxe leather bound edition. A fine copy – as new.
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THE BIRDS OF OXFORDSHIRE. With a Map.
Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1889. vii, 217 pages. Illustrated with a folding maps an hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece. Original blue cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine a little worn; bookplate on front fixed endpaper; else a very good, clean copy.
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