Sterland, W.J. and Whitaker, Joseph. Descriptive List of the Birds of Nottinghamshire.
1st. Ed. Pub.William Gouk. 1879 pp.71 plus 1-leaf of adverts of works by W.J. Sterland. 8vo. Hardback. Cords gently stretched, a few spots, o/w. contents fine. Neat ownership stamp of Howard Smith. Original decorated blue cloth boards in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. Scarce.
£225.00 [ref: 60433]

Stonham, Charles. The Birds of the British Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. E. Grant Richards. 1906-1911 Five volume set with 318 fine engraved plates, two colour fold-out maps and two full-page anatomical woodcuts printed in red and black. With 9-page list of subscribers to rear of Vol. V. Large 4to. Hardback. TEG. Ex-Bolton. Lib. Overall contents exceptionally clean and nr. fine. Original quarter vellum over blue boards with gilt lettering - short split to top of spine of Vol. III, o/w. in vg. condition.
Originally issued in 20 parts and finely illustrated by Lilian M. Medland.
£275.00 [ref: 66570]

Sweet, Robert. Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus of Rock-Rose; Illustrated by coloured figures and descriptions of the Distinct Species, and the most Prominent Varieties, that could be at present procured in the Gardens of Great Britain; with the best direction for their cultivation and propagation.
Pub. James Ridgway. 1825-30 pp.xx, with 112 fine hand-coloured, copper engravings and supporting pages of text. Royal 8vo. Very minor amount of scattered foxing and light offsetting, o/w. contents in fine condition. Marbled fore-edges and end-papers. Sewn headbands. Handsome half-morocco leather binding with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine, all in near fine condition.
Robert Sweet (1783-1835) was a highly respected horticulturist, nurseryman and author. In 1812 he joined Colvills, the famous Chelsea nursery. Subsequently, he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society and he published a number of very practical, beautifully illustrated works on British garden plants. The impressive plates comprised in ‘Cistineae’ are by J. Hart, M. Hart, W. Hart and Mrs Brown, engraved by S. Watts and Weddell, (Great Flower Books 1700 - 1900).
£1,500.00 [ref: 44354]

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Switzer, Stephen. The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener’s Recreation: Or, an introduction to Gardening, Planting, Agriculture, and the other business and pleasures of a Country life.
1st. Ed. Pub. B. Barker and C. King. 1715 pp.[viii], xxxiv, 266, [16] with engraved frontis. 8vo. Hardback. From the library of internationally renowned, English garden designer, Rosemary Verey (1918-2001), with her bookplate to the front paste-down. Two small holes to p.xxxi, with missing letters supplied in early hand, o/w. contents in fine condition. Very handsomely bound in original full calf-leather, decorated Cambridge panel binding, lightly marked in places. Acceptable wear at spine ends, to external hinges and the corners of the boards; the binding is still very firm and overall in vg. condition. Scarce. Was £1,750.00.
This was eminent garden designer Stephen Switzer’s first published work. He dedicated the book to the Marquess of Lindsey, for whom it is thought that Switzer designed the gardens at Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourne in Lincolnshire (Blanche Henry). It contains the first lengthy historical review of the development of gardening in England.
£1,575.00 [ref: 47610]

Tate [Galleries and O’Keeffe, Georgia]. Georgia O’Keeffe Portfolio : O’Keeffe Flowers.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. Tate. 2016 A portfolio of four colour, archival quality, prints with supporting, illustrated text leaf, all housed in publisher’s solander box. Folio (each print measuring 40cm x 30cm). Contents fine. Solander box nr. fine. Out-of-print.
In 2016, Tate Modern held an impressive Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition and this specially printed portfolio was produced in support of it. The prints illustrate O’Keeffe’s illustrations of ‘Abstraction White Rose’, ‘Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1’, ‘Jimson Weed’ and ‘Black Iris’. Giclee printed in the UK on Somerset Enhanced 100% cotton rag paper with hand-finished edges.
£500.00 [ref: 66436]

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Temminck, Coenraad Jacob. Nouveau Recueil de Planches colorees [coloriee] d'Oiseaux [d'ornithologie]. Vol. I.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. Fines Mundi GmbH Saarbrücken. 2015 pp.[448] with 101 colour plates. Folio. Fine hardback.
Facsimile of Volume One (which focusses on birds of prey) of Temminck's stunning original work which was first published in 1838 in Paris. It is unchanged in content apart from being reduced in size by about 15% thereby making the book a little more manageable.
£150.00 [ref: 72601]

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Thorburn, Archibald (& Grahame, Major Iain). Birds of Prey. A facsimile of the 1919 edition with a new foreword.
Collectors Ed. Pub. Major Iain Grahame. 1985 pp.[viii], [ii], iii plus 12 mounted colour plates each with supporting page of text. Folio. Hardback. TEG. Hand-made paper and marbled end-papers. Very minor spotting indeed o/w. contents fine. Original three-quarter dark green morocco with gilt lettering and decoration in nr. fine condition. This edition was limited to just 145 copies of which 135 (numbered 16 to 150) were for sale. Ten hors de commerce copies were also produced and lettered A to J - this copy being hors de commerce copy I. Comes with (loosely inserted) an original copy of the Publisher’s 4-page illustrated pre-publication advert. A most pleasing copy.
“First published in 1919 and limited to only one hundred and fifty copies, it has always been a great scarcity. One reason is that it was never issued in book form, but rather as a portfolio of lithographed prints, with an accompanying page of text. Many of them have been split up and framed, so only a very few copies remain in their original format. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Thorburn’s death, on 9 October 1935, I am proud to be republishing this little known work” Major Iain Grahame.
£725.00 [ref: 66528]

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Thorburn, Archibald. British Mammals.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans Green. 1920 Two volumes with 50 illus. in colour and many line drawings. Royal 4to. TEG. Scattered foxing to end-papers, o/w. contents fine. Original red cloth boards in near fine condition. A very pleasing set indeed.
£525.00 [ref: 38262]

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Thornton, Robert & Dressendorfer, Werner. The Temple of Flora The Complete Plates.
1st. Ed. thus Pub. Taschen. 2008 Thirty-two loose-leaf (Elephant folio sized) colour prints plus same-sized engraved title-page. Accompanied by a (same-sized) 44-page illustrated softback book comprising Dressendorfer’s introductory text and text supporting the plates (multi-lingual - English, French, German and Spanish). Contents in fine condition. Housed in Publisher’s illustrated clamshell case in nr. fine condition. Also comes with the Publisher’s illustrated cardboard packaging.
The year 1799 witnessed the first installment of a work that has gone down in history as one of the most remarkable books of botanical plates ever published. Two centuries have passed since the publication of Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora, but its charm remains unsullied today.
£325.00 [ref: 72056]

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Triggs, Hugo Inigo. The Art of Garden Design in Italy.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longmans. 1906 pp.xii, 134 with 128 b/w. plates, both photographic and illustration (collated and complete). Elephant folio. Hardback. Many illus. in text. Lightly coloured, scattered foxing in some places - largely confined to margins of plates. Spine showing some fading and minor wear at ends, common for this work. Boards also a little shelf-rubbed. A very good copy of this sumptuous work.
H. Inigo Triggs was born in 1876 and became a landscape gardener, architect and writer. He designed many formal gardens and later undertook the design of country houses, mostly in southern England. He specialised in historical research and recreating gardens from the past. His books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England. In 1926 he entered a partnership with the architect William Unsworth.
£250.00 [ref: 48410]