Fortune, Robert. Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China. Including a visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: With an account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray, London. 1847 pp.[ii],xiv, [iv], 406, [ii] plus 16-page Murray catalogue. With half-title, illus. frontis., illus. title-page, further title-page, map, 3 further full-page plates, plus illus. in text. 8vo. Hardback. Some scattered foxing, o/w. contents fine. Original gilt and blind-tooled decorated boards (which have benefited from discrete, professional repairs), showing some sunning to spine and top-edge, all in thor. vg. condition.
£900.00 [ref: 55025]

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Fripp M.D., Henry. The Compound Eye of Insects and Crustacea.
Pub. Popular Science Review, London. nd. mid 1800s pp.12-29 with two plates of illustrations. 8vo. With bookplate. Contents nr. fine. More recently bound in yellow boards, fine condition. Scarce.
A detailed study. Dr. Henry Edward Fripp M.D. was born on 10th June 1816 and passed away in Bristol on 23rd March 1880.
£50.00 [ref: 57763]

Garton, James. The Practical Gardener, and Gentleman’s Directory for Every Month of the Year. Adapted to the New Stile. An entire new work containing the lateft and moft approved Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Phyfic Garden.
1st. Ed. Printed for E. and C. Dilly, London. 1769 pp.[x], 285, [9]. Fold-out plate and rfep. removed. 8vo. Hardback. Charming early handwritten calculations and names to front pastedown, ffep., and title page. Light wear to margins of index, o/w. overall contents very clean and in thor. vg. condition. Early full calf leather, wanting lettering panel on spine, showing some wear to extremities, o/w. very sound and in vg. condition. A charming copy of this scarce work.
Praised by both Fussell and Janson as standing out from the plethora of other Calendars available at the time. The long-title continues ‘And for Managing the Vineyard and Pine-apple, The Nurfery, Shrubbery, Greenhoufe, and Hothoufe. With proper Directions for Raifing Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, An Essay upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hot-beds, &c.’.
£225.00 [ref: 68884]

Gerarde, John, [Gerard, John]. The Herball [Herbal] or Generall [General] Historie of Plants.
2nd. Rev. Ed. Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers. 1636 pp.[xxxviii], 1632 with engraved title, over 2,500 wood-block engravings plus Indexes and Table of Virtues. Collated and complete. Folio. Hardback. Seven wood-block engravings hand coloured (not dated but in keeping with the practice of the period). Last leaf professionally remargined with loss to a couple of letters only. Other than marking to some margins, as is common with herbals, and some occ. minor spotting the contents are very clean and nr. fine. More recently handsomely rebound in full calf with raised bands and blind ruling decoration, a trifle marked o/w. fine.
A very pleasing copy of Thomas Johnson’s expanded version of John Gerarde’s Herball (first published 1597). It is ‘noteworthy for its many corrections, improvements, additions’ (Henrey). Johnson indicated where he had made amendments with obelisk and double obelisk symbols.
£4,500.00 [ref: 63843]

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Gessner, Conrad (Zoller, Heinrich et al). Conradi Gesner Historia Plantarum. Sechste Folge.
Fac. Pub. Urs Graf Publishing, Zurich. 1979 pp.107, plus limitation leaf. With 22 tipped in reproductions of watercolours plus b/w. illus. Folio. Hardback. Text in German with Latin. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Copy No. 309 from a limited edition of 490.
A super production. Historia Plantarum is Gessner’s botanical encyclopedia compiled by him between 1555 and 1565, but not published until 1750. This is the sixth volume of the facsimile edition which comprises 22 finely reproduced watercolours from Gessner’s estate held in library of Erlangen University. The annotations Gessner made on each plate are deciphered and presented in Latin and German. A detailed and lengthy commentary section within this facsimile provides much additional information.
£225.00 [ref: 62676]

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Gosse, P.H. Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals.
1st. Ed. 1st. Issue. Pub. Van Voorst. 1858 - 1859 pp. half-title, xl, 362 with 12 plates (11 coloured). 8vo. Hardback. A very minor amount of spotting, o/w. contents in fine condition. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards (spine more recently professionally relaid) in thor. vg. condition. With ownership stamp of F.J. Bridgman to front paste-down. A single volume comprising all original 12 Parts plus Erratum slips. The seldom seen ‘Parts Issue’. Scarce.
‘Actinologia Britannica’ was first published in 12 Parts (referred to as the ‘Parts Issue’) between March 1st 1858 and December 1859. We offer for sale here, all 12 Parts (plus their original covers bound at the end) bound as one volume. Following completion of the Parts Issue, a single volume was published and despite it stating 1860 on the title page, it was released for the Christmas market in December 1859 (Williams 2017).
£375.00 [ref: 53645]

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Gould, John. Monograph of the Pittidae. Parts I & II.
Fac. Pub. Hill House, Melbourne. 1989 Title pages, accompanying text and 10 fine colour plates. Elephant folio. Fine hardback. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Limited edition this being copy No. 543.
A superb reproduction of the original work held at the British Museum. As facsimiles, the books carry faithfully every spot, mark or stain of the originals. They also carry the original Museum Department of Zoology stamps, and librarian's annotations. From behind glass, the naked eye would be unable to distinguish the original from the facsimile, so accurate is the colour printing.
£125.00 [ref: 72053]

Hale, W.G. The Meyers’ Illustrations of British Birds.
1st. Ed. Pub. Maggs Bros. & Peregrine Books. 2007 pp.xv, 257 plus copies of the original lists of subscribers and covers. Contains two original lithographs, one hand-coloured (of a male and female Bullfinch) taken from the folio format ‘Illustrations’ and a further 42 fine reproductions of plates. Small folio. Hardback. TEG. Bound in half burgundy morocco over marbled boards. Fine copy of the De Luxe Edition (No. 24 of 40), signed by W.G. Hale, in fine slipcase. As new. A superb copy.
Meyers’ Illustrations of British Birds’ published over a number of years from 1835 has been said to be ‘one of our most valuable illustrated works on Ornithology’ (Mullens & Swann 1917). W.G. Hale’s book is a fascinating insight into the history of this publication and the contributions made by members of the Meyer family.
£625.00 [ref: 71197]

Harding, J.D. Lessons on Trees.
4th. Ed. Pub. W. Kent & Co [n.d. c.1858] pp.[8] plus 30 lithographic plates covering 63 lessons. Folio. Hardback. Contents in vg. to thor. vg. condition with some scattered foxing and two neat repairs. Charming bookplate of Isabella Baker to front paste down. Original decorated brown cloth boards in vg. condition.
Charming. This work was dedicated to the artistic study of trees, taking the reader through the ‘how to’ illustrate the various elements and on to complete compositions. Harriet Isabel Adam nee Baker (1863-1952) was a British artist, scientific illustrator, and author. She attended the Birmingham School of Art and trained as an artist before moving to illustration and specializing in the Arts and Crafts style. She is most known for her botanical drawings, bookplates, and published two volume set, ‘Wild Flowers of the British Isles’.
£250.00 [ref: 60016]

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Harrison, Charles. A Treatise On The Culture And Management Of Fruit Trees.
2nd. Ed. Pub. for the Author. 1825 pp.xii, 356 with figs. in text. 8vo. Hardback. Marbled fore-edges. With period signature and personal roundel to title-page. Occ. minor spotting, title-page slightly trimmed, o/w. contents fine. Occ. period marginal annotation plus recipes for waterproof cement, a dressing for fruit-trees, paint for woodwork or walls, the Gilchrist Compound and zinc labels to rfep. Also loosely inserted are an advert for Gilchrist Compound ((c. 1859) featuring reviews of its effectiveness by Sir J.W. Hooker and Mr. Rivers) and a period article, with illus., for Grape Vine Mildew. More recently rebound in red-cloth, retaining original spine label, lightly spotted on rear, o/w. fine. A charming, unique copy.
A detailed, well illustrated treatise considering Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherry, Apricot, Peach and Nectarine trees. Also discusses Vines, Figs and the Gooseberry, Raspberry and Strawberry.
£175.00 [ref: 34581]

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