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Westport, Connecticut: The Avi Publishing Company Inc, 1977. Two volumes, large 8vo, pp x, 531; xii, 667, very clean internally. the slightest of wear and marking to the cloth, but a good set. [Volume 1 - nutrition, anatomy, chemical composition and bioregulation; Volume 2 - Production, processing practices, derived products and personnel management. Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to…
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Gardening in England
by Amhurst, the Hon. Alicia
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London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895 398pp. Green, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and illustration; book illustrated by black and white photographs. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. General wear to the boards, particularly at the extremities. Book block secure to the boards, paper hinges begining to wear. Previous owner's name on the half-title page. A comprehensive, illustrated history of gardening in the UK with a bibliography of gardening from 1516 to 1836.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 10" x 6.5".
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Citrus Science and Technology. Two volumes/ [Alan Davidson's copy]
by Nagy, Steven.; Shaw, Philip E. & Veldhuis, Matthew K
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The Gardener's Year
by Capek, Karel; Josef Capek (illustrated by)
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Although the Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) was best known for his early science fiction stories, in The Gardener's Year he writes with wit about his passion of gardening, With illustrations by his brother, Josef. 12mo. Green pictorial paper boards, 159 p., illus.; dust jacket. A VG+ copy with toning to board edges in a VG, unclipped ($1.75), dust jacket, which is also toned and has one mark of soiling.
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Carte de visite depicting the Crystal Palace in Sydenham.
by (Crystal Palace) Chappuis, Paul Emile
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London: Chappuis, [between 1859 and 1871]. Cabinet card (103 x 62 mm). Photographer's ticket to the verso. Just a couple of tiny spots. Excellent condition. A lovely carte de visite depicting the Crystal Palace in its permanent home at Sydenham sometime after 1856, when the Brunel water towers, one of which is visible in the photo, were erected. The structure was originally built to house the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations (the Great Exhibition) in Hyde Park in 1851. Popular acclaim saw it preserved and reopened in Sydenham in 1854, but it was destroyed by a fire in 1936. This card bears the ticket of photographer Paul Emile Chappuis (1816-1887), whose Fleet Street studio operated between 1859 and 1871. Chappuis was also an inventor who held several patents on reflectors that would allow light into buildings that would otherwise require gaslights during the day. The firm that he set up to manufacture them was in operation until the Second World War.
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The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon
by Moberly, C.
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The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon (2014 reprint, White Rabbit Press) By C. Moberly. Used. Very Good Condition. Paperback. By C. Moberly, L. Jourdain, and Tony Walker. MARIE ANTOINETTE. TIMESLIP, PARANORMAL. Summary: On 10 August, 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antionette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back were no longer there. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Previously out of print, this is a new edition with additional timeslip type experiences at Versailles. A hard to find item.
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The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
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Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.
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The Rhododendron Leaf - a Study of the Epidermal Appendages
by Cowan, J.M.
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Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1950. Illustrated, 8vo, pp xii, 120, green cloth with very slight bumps to corners, very slight wear to head and tail of spine, a tiny ink signature on the front endpaper, but a very much better than average copy of an exceedingly scarce book.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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The Genus Lachenalia - a Botanical Magazine Monograph
by DUNCAN, Graham
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Kew Publishing, 2012. Illustrated with 39 fine botanical watercolours, over 280 colour photographs, large thick 8vo pp xvi, 479, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Only one thousand copies have been produced. [This is the first complete and illustrated monograph of the genus Lachenalia, a horticulturally important and botanically diverse plant group. Lachenalia ranks with Gladiolus as one of the two most popular genera of South African bulbous plants worldwide, and next to Ornithogalum is the second-largest member of the family Hyacinthaceae in southern Africa. All species are described, classified and illustrated, with detailed text on history, morphology, phylogeny, phytogeography, pollination biology, cultivation and propagation. This book includes many highly attractive species which have never been illustrated in colour before, with 11 new taxa, ten of which are new species.] N.B. Weighs 2 kilos when wrapped - extra shipping will be required.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New.
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A Reconsideration of Masdevallia. Systematics of Specklinia and Vegetatively Similar Taxa. Miscellaneous New Taxa in the Pleurothallid Genera. Addenda to a Treasure of Masdevallia. [Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII]
by Luer, Carlyle A.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 2006. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 274, paperback, covers very slightly worn, upper cover very lightly creased, tiny inked initials on the upper cover, the first fifty pages have a very slight bruise on the fore-edge. Otherwise a very good copy. [VERY SCARCE. Publication was limited to 500 copies].. Paperback. Very Good.
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Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied Genera. A Second century of New Species of Stelis from Ecuador. Epibator, Opidion, Zootrophion. [Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI]
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 2004. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp (2), 265, paperback, a tiny bump to the top corner of the pages throughout, otherwise a really very good copy. [Publication was limited to 500 copies]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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Himalayan Cobra-Lilies (Arisaema) : Their Botany and Culture
by Pradhan, Udai C.
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Kalimpong: Primulaceae Books, 1997. Second edition. Large slim octavo, pp 100, (errata slip loosely inserted), illustrated in black and white, clean internally, blue cloth slightly marked, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and age-toned. SCARCE. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and browned.
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Notes from the Garden: Creating a Pacific Northwest Sanctuary
by Wilde, Madeleine
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Chatwin Books, 2021. First Edition. Trade Paperback. New. New! 'I know from my own experience that an evening spent tending my garden, after another incomprehensible day, brings a strength and calmness that no other activity can match. Is it the qualities associated with gardening, such as nurturing and the hard work of hands and heart, that are deficient in our culture? Much good writing has been done about the garden as a special place.' Madeleine Wilde's woodland garden on the south slope of Seattle's Queen Anne Hill was more than a "special place." It was her Sanctuary, her prism through which she explored the world and accomplished "much good writing." For two decades, starting in the early 1990s, Madeleine's "Notes from the Garden" delighted readers of the Queen Anne & Magnolia News in Seattle. Here, in luminous prose, is the best of her work from those years, ranging from hands-on advice for gardeners and would-be gardeners to poetically charged, often wry, insights into life in the tradition…
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Proserpina, Ariadne Florentina, The Opening of the Crystal Palace
by John Ruskin
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Dana Estes & Company, Boston, circa 1900, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 424 pages, 5.25" x 7.5", top edge gilt, ownership inscription on ffep, otherwise tight and clean.
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Villa Gardens: How to Plan and How to Plant them
by W.S. Rogers
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Grant Richards, London, 1902, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 134 pages, 5" x 7.5", a clean and tight copy
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Jane Austen and the English Landscape
by Batey, Mavis
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London: Barn Elms, 1996. Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Landscape historian Batey explores real and fictional settings of Austen's novels. In each chapter she uses a different Austen novel to discuss the style of gardens and landscapes during the early 19th century and Regency England. A continuing theme is the tension between Georgian propriety and the challenging Romantic ideals as they played out in the English landscape. Jane Austen was deeply inspired by the landscape and rural comforts of southern England. Her family's final move to Chawton, in the depths of the Hampshire countryside and so near the Steventon rectory of her childhood, gave her great satisfaction and led to her most creative period. This comprehensive work provides a guide to the ideas and subtleties behind the real and fictional settings of Jane Austen's novels, with…
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Del Giardino
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Lime green cloth folio (31 x 25mm) with a paste-down floral watercolor image on the cover. The slightest sign of a dampstain exists under that image, floral endpapers inside. Text in ITALIAN with many full page watercolors. The chapters headings are months of the year. This is a collection of articles written by Vita between 1947 and 1961 for the Observer.
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The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon
by Moberly, C
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The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon (2014 reprint, White Rabbit Press) By C. Moberly. Used. Very Good Condition. Paperback. By C. Moberly, L. Jourdain, and Tony Walker. MARIE ANTOINETTE. TIMESLIP, PARANORMAL. Summary: On 10 August, 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antionette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back were no longer there. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Previously out of print, this is a new edition with additional timeslip type experiences at Versailles. A hard to find item.
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The Carrot Seed
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Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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The Pelargonium Family - the species of Pelargonium, Monsonia and Sarcocaulon
by Webb, William J
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London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 104, edges and margins a bit browned, otherwise very sound, in a dustwrapper which is very slightly worn and browned and which has a crease on the spine. [Quite possibly from the home of a smoker, but no aroma. [Originally published at £19.95, but now becoming increasingly scarce].. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair.
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A History of Garden Art. (Volume 2 only)
by Gothein, Marie Luise
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London: Dent & Sons, 1928. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Illustrated, quarto, pp xvi, 486, t.e.g., lower corner of upper cover slightly stained, otherwise a good copy in the original decorated blue cloth, in a rather poor dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor.
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