Avray Tipping, H. English Gardens.
Pub. Country Life. 1925 pp.lxiv, 375 profusely illustrated with over 500 photographs and drawings. Spine ends showing wear and boards blemished in places. AEG. Contents in fine condition. Folio.
‘This volume illustrates and describes fifty-two English gardens as they are in our own times. Some of them are new creations, but many have links more or less strong with the past, so that, despite alterations arising from passage of time and change of taste, we can get, through them, a glimpse of what Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian gardening was like.’.
£175.00 [ref: 38283]

Avray Tipping, H. The Garden of To-Day.
1st. Ed. Pub. Martin Hopkinson Ltd. 1933 pp.288 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Minor spotting to fore-edge of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards nr. fine.
Tipping (1855–1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine for 17 years. This work is divided into four chapters ‘Garden Making and Garden Features’, ‘The Garden’s Four Seasons’, ‘Trees and Shrubs’ and ‘Perennials, Annuals and Bulbs’.
£150.00 [ref: 66949]

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Bacon, Lionel. Alpines.
Rep. Pub. Garden Book Club. 1975 pp.246 with b/w. photos. & line drawings. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in vg. plus dw.
A comprehensive survey of the cultivation of alpine and rock plants.
£3.00 [ref: 67740]

Baines, Chris. How to Make a Wildlife Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Elm Tree Books. 1985 pp.191 with colour photographs and b/w. illus. 4to. A vg. softback.
£5.00 [ref: 49970]

Baker, T. and Leston, G.L. Land and Engineering Surveying. For Students and Practical Use.
29th. Ed. Pub. The Technical Press. 1945 pp.xii, 248 with b/w. plates (one folding) & text figs. 8vo. With ownership insc. of ‘Milner White’ to ffep. Contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
A textbook for students beginning with a chapter on practical geometry.
£10.00 [ref: 67746]

Balmori, D. Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes. Her Gardens and Campuses.
Pub. Saga Press. 1985 pp.viii, 215 with b/w. and colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in card covers.
£10.00 [ref: 42034]

Bardswell, F.A. The Herb Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. A. & C. Black. 1911 pp.viii, 173 with 16 tipped-in col. plates. Large 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Presentation copy with ‘From the Author, March 14th 1913’ neatly written on ffep. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards with gilt lettering in thor. vg. condition
Advice on all aspects of herb gardening including herb types with their common and Latin names. The book explains how to maintain your plants and when best to sow, plant and harvest. It draws to a close with a chapter dedicated to ‘What modern writers are saying about herbs and herb-gardens’.
£45.00 [ref: 69921]

Barker, J. et.al. Everlasting Daisies of Australia. Identification, Propagation, Cultivation.
1st. Ed. Pub. C.H. Jerram & Assoc. 2002 pp.xii, 196 with colour photos., throughout. Large 8vo. Bookplate. Nr. fine softback. Out-of-print. Very scarce.
The result of five years of work by the Australian Daisy Study Group, this book covers all of the species in twelve genera of everlasting daisies. There are chapters on growing everlasting daisies, propagation, floral arrangements, floriculture, reproduction and hybridisation.
£65.00 [ref: 56250]

Barker, J.T. The Beauty of Flowers in Field and Wood: Containing the Natural Orders or Families of British Wild Plants; with their Moral Teachings Illustrated.
1st. Ed. Pub. Binns & Goodwin. [n.d. c.1852] pp.xii, 228 with 10 hand-coloured plates plus 20 page publisher’s catalogue. With additional illustrated title-page. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Period signature. Contents fine. Original gilt and blind decorated cloth binding thor. vg. / nr. fine. Scarce.
“Designed to make botany simple, and field and wood rambles instructive and agreeable.”
£225.00 [ref: 60773]

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Barnard, T. and Clark, J. (Eds.). Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hambledon Press. 1995 pp.xviii, 328 with b/w. illus. 4to. Fine hardback with a little light spotting to endpapers in nr. fine dw.
A biography of Burlington, architect and patron of the arts with particular attention to his achievement at Chiswick House.
£22.50 [ref: 63376]

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