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Observations on Mangel Wurzel
by Lindley, George
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- 1813
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- Original Wraps
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Norwich: Printed for the author by Bacon, Kinnebrook and Co. [1813]. Small 8vo.Pamphlet. 14, [2] pp. Original printed paper wraps. Sections loose, though all present. Liquid stain to front cover, affecting middle hinges of leaves, becoming more faint towards latter leaves. Lindley argues that the value of Mangel Wurzel in Britain is only considered in terms of it as a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters
by Nisbet, John
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- 1905
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- Publisher's Cloth
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1905. Large 8vo. Two volumes. xx, 506; xv, 642, [2] pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Minimal bumping and rubbing to extremities and ink name to pastedown, otherwise internally clean. Covering all aspects of woodland management, the author was formely Conservator of Forests in Burma. . Very Good.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Stephens' Book of the Farm : Dealing exhaustively with every Branch of Agriculture, in Three Volumes - Volume I. Land and its Equipment
by MacDonald, James
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- Used - Very Good
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- 5th Edition
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- 1908
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- Publisher's Cloth
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons c. 1908. Large 8vo. Volume one only. xxviii, 541 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to extremities, though internally clean, save ink name to pastedown. The fifth edition was revised and largely rewritten by the author who was Secretary of The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Volume one… Read more about this item Item Price
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The English Physician Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, That were not in any Impression until This. Being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health or cure himself, being Sick, for Three-pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.
by Culpepper, Nicholas
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- 1801
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- Half Calf
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$321.28
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London: Printed for J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, W. Lowndes and J. Barker [1801]. 12mo. [xii], 348 pp. Rebound in brown half calf over marbled boards; red title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine with raised bands. Light spotting to text throughout. Short biography of Culpeper (spelt Culpepper on title page) written in ink at prelims. This work covers… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Garden at Eichstatt : The Book of Plants
by Besler, Basilius
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2000
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- Hardcover
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- 9783822865279
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Koln / London / Madrid / New York / Paris / Tokyo: Taschen 2000. Large 4to. 464 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Light spotting to top and bottom edges. Internally clean. Prince Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen founded the famous garden at Eichstatt in the early 17th century. It was documented in 367 copperplate… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Diary of John Evelyn
by Evelyn, John; de Beer, E. S. [ed.]
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- Good
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- First Editions Thus
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- 1955
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- Cloth
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Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955. 8vo. 6 volumes. Dark blue cloth in printed and unclipped jackets. Blind-stamped Oxford crest to boards and gilt lettering to spines. Chipping, spotting and sunning to jackets, with short tears. Slight bumping to extremities of books. All internally clean. Evelyn's diaires form a highly authoritative source for scholars of late 17th century England, now in a… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Thatched Roof
by Nichols, Beverley
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- Used - Very Good
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- 4th Impression
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- 1933
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- Publisher's Leather
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London: Jonathan Cape 1933. 8vo.Illustrated. 4th impression. 285 pp. Deluxe publisher's leather with gilt lettering and decoration; illustrated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities and some foxing, mostly at prelims. With illustrations by Rex Whistler. . Very Good. Publisher's Leather. 4th Impression. 1933. Item Price
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In Your Garden & In Your Garden Again
by Sackville-West, Vita; Victoria Glendinning intro.
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- As New
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- Slipcase
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- 2011
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- Hardcover
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London: The Folio Society 2011. 8vo. xiv., 290 pp. Shrink-wrapped. As this is shrink-wrapped, we have not determined which printing this is, but it was printed twice in 2011. . As New. Hardcover. 2011. Item Price
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Repton in London: The Gardens and Landscapes of Humphry Repton (1752-1818) in the London Boroughs
by (Simms, Barbara [ed.])
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- 2018
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- Softcover
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- 9781527220690
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London: London Parks & Gardens Trust 2018. 4to. [4], 116 pp. Illustrated softcover. Light curling to corners. Internally clean. Includes chapters by a range of authors on subjects such as Kenwood, Russell Square, Bloomsbury Square and Haling Park. 9781527220690 . Very Good. Softcover. 2018. Item Price
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The Economy of Vegetation or Phoenomena of Plants
by A Fellow of The Linnean Society [Murray, John]
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- 1838
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London: Relfe and Fletcher 1838. 8vo. 175 pp., with a hand coloured lithographic additional title, and 2 plain lithographic plates. Blind stamped original cloth with gilt lettering to spine has some minor bumping and to extremities. . Near Fine. Original Cloth - Gilt Lettered. 1838. Item Price
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Handbook of British Fungi, With full Descriptions of all the Species, and Illustrations of the Genera [Two Volumes]
by Cooke, M. C.
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- First Editions
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- 1871
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- Gilt Lettered Cloth
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London: MAcmillan and Co 1871. 8vo. First Editions. 2 volumes. [v], 488; 489-981, [3] pp. Full green cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Marks to boards with wear to spine ends and corners. Ink names and stamps to prelims, which are foxed, otherwise internally clean. Colour frontis and black & white diagram illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Decorative Flower Studies for the Uses of Artists, Designers, Students, and Others. A Series of Forty Coloured Plates Printed in Facsimile of the Original Drawings, accompanied by studies of detail from each subject, and descriptive notes. (+ Decorative plant & flower studies for the use of artists, designers, students & others [etc.])
by Foord, J.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1901
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- Gilt Decorated Cloth
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London: B. T. Batsford 1901; 1906. Large 4to. First Edition. Original publisher's light green cloth, with floral gilt stamped decoration and lettering to boards and spine. Marks to boards and rubbing to board edges and spine. Slight yellowing to pages. The first series of 40 beautiful pochoir colour plates of art deco flowers, made into a portfolio format, along with… Read more about this item Item Price
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An English Garden in Provence
by Spender, Natasha
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1999
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- Cloth
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- 9781860465147
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London: The Harvill Press 1999. Oblong 8vo. First Edition. 208 pp. Blue hardcover with paper title label to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Minimal marks to boards; internally clean and bright, binding firm. Colour photographs throughout by Stephen Spender and Jean-Marie del Moral. 1860465145 . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1999. Item Price
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British Poisonous Plants
by Johnson, Charles
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1856
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- Decorative Cloth
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London: John E. Sowerby 1856. Small 8vo.Illustrated. First Edition. iv, 59 pp. Brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration and gilt lettering to boards; recent spine. Some marking and slight fading to parts of the boards, light wear to corners; spine fresh and firm. Light spots throughout, not affecting plates. Stamp to front pastedown and once internally. Illustrated with 28 hand-coloured plates.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Gardener's Diary for 1937 [VERY SCARCE]
by Bawden, Edward
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1937
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- Pictorial Boards
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London: Country Life Ltd 1937. 8vo. Very scarce. Unpaginated. Red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Red cloth spine over pictorial boards; illustrated endpapers. Small hole in cloth of spine; board edges yellowed, as are all the page edges within - original colour is light blue - but otherwise very clean. Designed and with illustrations throughout by Edward Bawden, with weekly… Read more about this item Item Price
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Our Homes and Gardens, Volume IV 1922-23
by Country Life Limited (Publishers)
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- 1923
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- Cloth
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London: Country Life Limited 1923. 4to.Magazine / Journal. viii, 376 pp., Green cloth binding with blindstamped boards and gilt lettered spine. Some sunning to the spine and marks to the boards. Slight wear to the extremities. Some wear to the hinges with webbing visible, otherwise binding firm. Internally clean and illustrated throughout in black and white. This is a heavy… Read more about this item Item Price
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Flowers of Madeira ; Flores da Madeira ; Fleurs de Madere ; Blumen Madeiras
by Vieira, Rui
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Madeira: Francisco Ribeiro. Large 8vo. Portuguese, English, French and German text. 280 pp. Colour pictorial boards. A few marks and scratches to boards and edges. Internally clean. 159 colour photographs of the flowers of Madeira. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards. Item Price
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Practical Treatise on The Grape Vine
by Thomson, William
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- Used - Good
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- Enlarged Edition
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- 1867
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- Gilt Lettered Cloth
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London: William Blackwood and Sons 1867. 8vo. ciii, 79, [39]pp. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Green cloth binding with gilt lettered front board. Some wear and loss to the spine and slight rubbing to the boards. Binding slightly shaken with wear to the front hinge and webbing visible. Light scattered spotting, with occasional pencil marks and pencil inscription to the front board.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Flower Fairies of the Summer
by Barker, Cicely Mary
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1931
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- Decorative Boards
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London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Limited (1931). Illustrated. Unpaginated. Decorative boards with tipped on colour illustration in illustrated jacket. Illustrated throughout with 24 colour plates. Jacket marked with a few tears to edges (protected by acetate now). Boards clean and bright, binding firm. Internal spotting throughout, not affecting plates. Owner's name to verso of ffep., dated 1931. . Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Gardens of England in the Northern Counties and Peasant Art in Austria and Hungary. Two volumes in one.
by Holme, Charles (ed.)
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- 1911
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- Half Morocco
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London, Paris & New York: 'The Studio' Ltd. 1911. 4to.Illustrated. 2 volumes bound in 1. xxxviii + plates; x, 30 + plates. Half black morocco with gilt lettering to the spine and marbled boards. Endpapers marbled and top edge gilt. Some rubbing to the edges and corners, with loss to the marbling on the front board. Damp stain to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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