Barla, J.-B. Flore Mycologique Illustree. Les Champignons des Alpes-Maritimes. Avec l’indication de leurs proprietes utiles ou nuisibles.
New Ed. Pub. Libreria Basso, Alassio. 1996 pp.80, 81-110 plus 64 full-colour plates. Hardback. Folio. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Fine condition. Scarce.
This is both a very pleasing reproduction of the original work published in 1888, with the addition of a 28-page section which makes the text more accessible to current readers. Contributors to the new section include Marcel Bon and Massimo Candusso.
£150.00 [ref: 58847]

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Blaikie, Francis. On the Conversion of Arable Land into Pasture and on other Rural subjects.
1st. Ed. Pub. J. Dawson. 1817 pp.47. 16mo. Sewn softback. Contents very clean. Internal stitching given way in places. Original printed wrappers in vg. condition. Scarce.
Francis Blaikie, (1771-1857) agriculturist and land agent was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland and made his way to England in 1802. He was employed by Lord Chesterfield, then in 1816 he moved to Holkham Hall, Norfolk to work as Land Steward to Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester and to whom this work is dedicated.
£95.00 [ref: 59942]

Boutcher, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto published, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments.
1st. Ed. Pub. R. Fleming, Edinburgh. 1775 pp.4, xlviii, 259 plus 3-page postscript. 4to. Hardback. Neat, early, signature to title-page. Contents thor. vg. to nr. fine with intermittent minor spotting. Does not contain the engraved title (present in a small number of copies) and not signed by the author. More recent handsome quarter cloth over marbled boards, lightly marked o/w. fine. A very pleasing copy.
William Boutcher was a nurseryman at Comely Garden, Edinburgh. His ‘A Treatise on Forest-Trees’ ‘was the best eighteenth-century work published on the subject and, in the opinion of Edlin, it still contains ‘much of interest and practical application in present-day forest nurseries’.’ (Henrey).
£160.00 [ref: 64606]

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Bromfield, William Arnold., (Hooker, Sir W.J. & Salter, T.B. (Eds.)). Flora Vectensis. Being a systematic description of the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to the Isle of Wight.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Pamplin. 1856 pp.xxxv, 678 with map. 8vo. Hardback. Contemporary binding of green full-calf leather, richly decorated on spine and boards - spine professionally relaid, all in near fine condition. All edges marbled with matching marbled end-papers. Contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Association copy, with dedication of ‘To the Rev. John Vernon, with the best wishes of the Author’s Sister’ neatly written on ffep. With the ‘Botanico-Topographic’ map which shows some wear at folds, still in vg. condition. Scarce, especially so with the map.
This work was published in two formats, one with the map, the other without.
£995.00 [ref: 53745]

Bull, Henry Graves, (Gen. Ed.) and Hogg, R. (Tech. Ed.). The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears.
Pub. The Folio Society, London. 2014 Two volume set with 77 fine colour plates plus text illus. Folio. Hardback. TEG. Text volume bound in green canvas, with the Plate volume bound in green Italian goatskin and canvas. Both volumes in fine, as new, condition. Presented in Publisher’s matching green canvas Solander box with gilt lettering and decoration, showing a few trivial marks o/w. in fine, as new, condition. Comes with the Publisher’s four full-size colour plates for framing (in matching green envelope) as published. Set No. 98 from the Limited edition of just 980 copies. This set also comes with The Folio Society’s 20-page, colour illustrated, pre-publication brochure advertising their edition of ‘The Herefordshire Pomona’.
‘The Herefordshire Pomona is the most comprehensive study of the apples and pears grown in Britain ever published with over 430 different varieties all beautifully illustrated’ (Folio Society). The plates were by Edith Bull, Alice B. Ellis and W.G. Smith (plate 1 only). They were lithographed by G. Severeyns and published under the auspices of the Woolhope Club. This is ‘one of the finest fruit books ever issued’ [Great Flower Books, pp.59-60; Nissen 294].
£625.00 [ref: 69918]

Cavanilles, Antoni-Josep. Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum Quae Aut Sponte in Hispania Crescunt aut in Hortis Hospitantur.
Facs. Pub. Generalitat Valenciana. 1995 Six volume set with 600 fine b/w. botanical engravings. Folio. Softbacks with dws. Repaired tear to Vol. V. dw. and card cover o/w. all vols. in nr. fine to fine condition.
A very well produced facsimile of Cavanilles sumptuous work illustrating plants growing in Spain, either naturally or in gardens, originally published in 1793.
£300.00 [ref: 65514]

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Clinton-Baker, H. and Jackson A. Bruce. Illustrations of Conifers Vols. I to III [&] Illustrations of New Conifers.
1st. Ed. Privately Printed, Hertford. 1909-1913 & 1935 Four volume set with half-titles and 331 photographic plates of leaves / needles and cones / fruit. Large 4to. TEG. Hardbacks. Only 300 complete sets released. With ‘H. Clinton Baker Esq.’ neatly in pencil to verso of title-page in Vol. III. With Errata slip in Vol. III and Publisher’s correction slip in Vol. IV. Some spotting to fore-edges of text blocks, some to text and verso of plates in Vol. II, only very minor spotting elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Handsomely bound in full green morocco with gilt lettering and raised bands to spines, very slightly rubbed at extremities, gently bumped to bottom fore-corners and spine of ‘New Conifers’ gently sunned. Scarce.
A superb work. “The cultivation of conifers in this country, whether for ornament or for producing timber, is on a gigantic scale and the number of species introduced is considerable. Their accurate discrimination is a matter of great importance........Mr. Clinton-Baker has taken the utmost pains to collect good specimens, which in some cases have been obtained with great difficulty.” Clinton-Baker was the grandson of William Robert Baker who planted a pinetum at his estate near Hertford advised by John Claudius Loudon. It was further developed by the author in the early 20th century and now belongs to the University of Hertfordshire, containing over 150 different species of conifer.
£995.00 [ref: 71214]

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Dalechamp, Jacques. Histoire générale des plantes, contenant XVIII livres également départis en deux tomes: Tirée de l'exemplaire latin de la bibliothèque de M. Jacques Dalechamps, puis faite françoise par M. Jean Des Moulins. Dernière édition corrigée.
2nd French Edition Pub. Lyon. 1653 Two volumes comprising 2,752 woodcuts, a number of which were made especially for this work. Hardback. Folio. All edges marbled. Contents complete with some pagination errors to Tome 1. Several leaves at the beginning of each volume repaired at blank gutter. Old water-marking (common in herbals) to both volumes, more extensive in Tome 2, nevertheless the contents overall are in thoroughly very good condition. Bound in contemporary full-leather, professionally restored in places, all in thoroughly very good condition.
The second, and last, French edition of Dalechamp's famous herbal - this edition being the most complete one in the French language. Prov: We know that this copy was at one point owned by Sir Frank Crisp (b. 1843 - d. 1949) the English lawyer and microscopist. After 1919, the books went into the library of Sir Edwin Hartland (b. 1848 - d. 1927) and after his passing away in 1936, they were donated to Gloucester Council. The most recent owner being Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist (b. 1935 - d. 2022).
£1,795.00 [ref: 66524]

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Dodoens, Rembert. A New Herball or Historie of Plants. Translated.....by Henrie Lyte.
3rd. English Ed. Corr. & Amen., London, Edm. Bollifant. 1595 pp.[xl], 916, [48]. Black letter, title within woodcut decorative border. Crown 4to. AEG. Contents in nr. fine condition. Nineteenth century half-calf leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, showing a little wear to spine, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. Prov: Neat private library stamp to pastedowns (Rothamsted, Lawes Trust, acquired by them in 1915). Henrey 112.
Henry Lyte first translated Dodoens’ celebrated herbal in 1578. The copy offered for sale here is the corrected and amended edition of 1595. Lyte’s work is held in high esteem. Agnes Arber commented that he was ‘no mere mechanical translator, for the herbal [Lyte’s own copy] is annotated and corrected, [with] references to de l’Obel and Turner being inserted’.
£3,950.00 [ref: 55027]

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Duppa, Richard. The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1816 Three volume set with 240 fine copper engraved plates of which 237 are hand-coloured and three are b/w. (as published), with the Dictionary of Botanical terms and Index at end of Vol. III. 8vo. Hardbacks. AEG. Contents in near fine condition. Contemporary full, straight grain, leather binding, with richly decorated spines and borders, gently rubbed, o/w. nr. fine. A very pleasing set indeed.
‘This work is intended to be a complete illustration of the Linnaean system of Botany’. It was published in both coloured and un-coloured issues.
£2,950.00 [ref: 60286]

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