Delille, J. Les Jardins, Poeme.
Pub. Paris. 1801 pp.xxxi, 166. Bound in half calf with new calf spine & marbled boards.
£60.00 [ref: 26915]

Dicks, John. The New Gardener’s Dictionary.
Pub. Keith, Johnson, Alman, Blyth & Beevor. 1771 Unpaginated with frontispiece and 13 fine engraved plates. Fine copy in original full calf binding with gilt design to spine. Scarce. ** These books are heavy. Please check postage costs before ordering. Tel: 01497 820 471 **
£1,000.00 [ref: 32147]

Horticultural Society of London. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London.
Pub. Bulmer & Row. & W. Nicol. 1820-48 Series 1 vols.1 -7 and Series 2 vols. 1 -3 the latter contains the general index to both series. 4to with 171 engravings of which 88 are hand coloured. Beautifully bound in full green calf with gilt design panelled spines. A handsome, complete set. Vols. 1-3 of the first Series are 3rd edition all the rest are first editions. Some foxing to prelimns. not affecting coloured plates. A fascinating and scarce set. Complete.
One of the earliest aims of the Horticultural Society (now known as the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)) was that ‘the Society shall from time to time publish a volume of papers of the same size and form as the Transactions of the Adelphi Society [the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, later renamed the Royal Society of Arts]... That the Committee shall have the power of selecting the papers for publication, and that no paper shall be published before it has been read at a sitting of the Society’. This is complete ten volumes. One of the more important journals of the day. Contributors were many and include such eminent people as Sir Joseph Banks, Thomas Andrew Knight, John Wedgwood, Thomas Hogg, and Hugh Ronalds. With exquisite hand coloured fruit plates by William Hooker, artist to the Horticultural Society. Other plates are by Miss Drake and Mrs Withers.
£4,500.00 [ref: 36076]

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Knight, Thomas, Andrew. Pomona Herefordiensis. Old Cider and Perry Fruits.
Pub. Agricultural Soc. Herefordshire. 1811 pp. viii with 30 fine hand coloured plates of apples engraved and coloured by William Hooker after original drawings by Elizabeth Mathews of Belmont and the author’s daughter. Rebound in half green morocco leather with marbled boards, a very handsome and pleasing binding. Very scarce.
Elizabeth Mathews drew 27 of 30 plates the others were drawn by the authors daughter Frances Knight. William Hooker was considered one of the finest pomological artists-he studied with Franz Bauer. Originally published in 10 parts.
£4,500.00 [ref: 32315]

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Loudon, Jane. The Ladies Magazine of Gardening.
Pub. William Smith. 1842 pp. 379. with 13 hand coloured plates. A very clean bright copy of the scarce book in original green cloth binding.
£400.00 [ref: 32177]

Markham, Gervase. Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry or the inriching of all sorts of Barren and Sterill Grounds in our Kingdome, to be fruitfall in all manner of Graine, Pulse and Grasse as the best Grounds.
Printed by I.B. for Roger Jackson. 1628 pp.160. Title page a little browned. On page 157 a section of the margin has been torn with ‘st’ of August missing o/w no loss. Beautifully bound in full calf with bands, gilt title and blind tooling. With a few engraved images in text.
£400.00 [ref: 35126]

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Mawe, T. & Abercrombie, J. The Universal Gardener and Botanist.
Pub. G. Robinson. 1778 Unpaginated bound in full calf with new spine, original label and original boards. Very clean - nice copy.
£350.00 [ref: 32179]

McDonald, Alexander. [Dickson, R.W.] A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening.
Pub. for George Kearsley by R.Taylor. 1807 pp. iv, unpaginated with 61 fine hand coloured plates after Sydenham Edwards engraved by Sanson. 2 volumes bound in half calf with 13 uncoloured plates of garden buildings and implements. A little foxing to preliminary pages but coloured plates are fine and bright. McDonald was the ‘nom de plume’ of R.W. Dickson.
R.W.Dickson used the same plates by Sydenham Edwardes in his later publication entitled ‘The New Botanic Garden’. Sydenham Edwardes was one of the finest botanical illustrators of his period. He worked on several of William Curtis’s publications namely, Flora Londinensis and his long running Botanical Magazine. Later he illustrated some of the plates in his own Botanical Register.
£4,000.00 [ref: 35121]

Miller, P. The Gardener’s and Botanist’s Dictionary. Containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving The Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden and Nursery........
9th Ed. Pub.F.C. & J Rivington et al. 1807 Four volumes complete. Title page and dedication leaf are facsimile using paper that closely resembles the original. Bound in half calf with marbled boards with gilt panels to spines. A handsome set of the last edition.
£1,200.00 [ref: 22160]

Miller, Philip. The Gardeners Dictionary.
6th Ed. Pub.John & James Riverton. 1752 A very nice copy with frontis. and nine engraved plates. Rebound in half morroco with marbled boards. A handsome volume.
£575.00 [ref: 29104]

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