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Oak Spring Garden Library. -, 19891997. 1st. Ed.. Three volume set with superb colour plates throughout all volumes. 4to. Fine hardbacks in nr. fine dws. The Oak Spring Garden Library comprises Rachel Lambert Mellon's celebrated collection of rare books, manuscripts, works of art and artifacts relating to gardening, landscape design, horticulture, botany, natural history and travels. These three volumes present the collection and is of great interest to collectors of rare books, to fine-art historians as well as to horticulturists, botanists and garden historians.

By the author. , 1999. Rep. Ed.. pp.189, 194 with b/w. photo. 8vo. A fine softback.

Archaeologia Cambrensis., 1999. Rep.. pp.189-194 with b/w. photo. and illus. 8vo. A fine softback.

Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Harley Books. 2002. pp. 132 with colour photos., and b/w. illus. Large 8vo. Fine softback. A personal account of the author's experiences in the field of conservation. The first part describes Moore's transformation of a bare field into a private nature reserve, while the second part relates his own local experiences to the wider conservation scene.

Methuen., 1952. 1st. Ed.. pp.viii, 50 with colour and b/w. illus. 8vo. Boards a little darkened and label on spine o/w. a vg. hdbk.

Phaidon., 1980. Ltd. Ed.. pp. 112 profusely illustrated with colour and black & white illustrations throughout. This is the limited edition version, numbered 198 of 200 copies. Signed and numbered by Peter Scott. Handsomely bound in green quarter-morocco leather and in fine condition. With slipcase which is very gently faded fore-edges and otherwise in fine condition. A lovely copy.

Natural history Monographs . Pub. Henry W. Stacy. 1860. pp.viii, 156 with fold-out map and two b/w. engravings. 8vo. Softback. Pencil signature to ffep. Minor spotting at ends and to map, o/w. contents fine. Original printed blue card covers (dated 1860, title-page carries date of 1848) showing a little wear and rubbed at corners, o/w. thor. vg.

Univ. Toronto., 1957. pp.x, 258 with b/w. photographs and colour frontis. A vg. copy in yellow cloth boards.

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. J. Taylor, London. 1803. pp. 16, 222 [2], frontis., (portrait of author), 27 plates. Fourteen overslips. Collated and complete. 4to. Portrait and one engraved plate lightly foxed. A little, light offsetting. Double-page plate has small, neat repair at fold. Otherwise contents in fine condition. Prov: Bookplate of Walter Ambrose Harding, Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire. Recently rebound in handsome, period-style, half-brown calf-leather with marbled boards by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath. Spine richly gilt tooled and lettered. Binding in fine condition. First edition of the second of Repton's three works featuring his ingenious use of folding overslips to show the estates before and after improvement. "These three works are chiefly compiled from the author's 'Red Books' and are illustrated with facsimiles of the original sketches, engraved in aquatint. These publications are important as records of Repton's work and views as a landscape… Read More

Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1950. Rep. Ed.. pp.519-528 with 3 pages of b/w. photos of the White Rhinoceros called ‘Zuluana’. 8vo. A vg. softback. Scarce. Details a very important event and period of observations - the arrival and the life of Zuluana over the 18 months from when she first arrived at Pretoria. Her age was known to within a day and this was the first instance that a White Rhinocerous had found its way to a Zoological Garden.

Phaidon., 1980. 1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp.. pp.112 with colour and b/w. illus. 4to. A nr. fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.

Bees Books Published Between 1901 + 1999 . 1st. Ed. Pub. BBNO. 1985. pp.xiii, 89 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Signature to pastedown. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. This is the only book devoted entirely to the Observation Hive, its history, construction, use and maintenance.

Bee Books New and Old., 2013. 3rd. Ed.. pp.xiii, 90 with photos. A new softback. This is the only book devoted entirely to the Observation Hive, its history, construction, use and maintenance.

London by the Author., 1794. 1st. Ed.. pp.[8], 480. 8vo. Hardback. From the library of Prof. Leonard E. Newton with his stamp to bottom margin of title. Contents fine. More recent half morocco binding in very pleasing, nr. fine condition. Charming handwritten letter bound in at front dated 20 Nov. 1876 from North Wales Central Botanic Gardens to a member of the public searching for a copy of this title. Adrian Hardy Howarth (1768-1833) was a British botanist and entomologist being President of The Entomological Society of London from 1806 to 1822. During his lifetime he was the author of 60 publications, primarily concerned with succulent plants and lepidoptera. The facsimile of ‘Observations on the Genus Mesembryanthemum’ published in 1965 by Gregg Press was taken from this copy.

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Norwich, Printed by R.M. Bacon. 1806. pp. fold-out plate, [iv], xviii, [19]-121, [iii] with one further fold-out plate plus vignettes to text. 8vo. Hardback. Some off-setting to plates, occ. minor spotting, o/w. contents fine. Sympathetically bound in modern buckram preserving original spine label. William Smith (1769-1839) was known as ‘the Father of English Geology’ and famous for producing the first geological map of Britain (1815). The charming plates illustrate the plans of watermeadows made out of a bog on Prisley Farm.

British Pteridological Society., 2008. Facs. Ed.. pp.16 with fold-out illus. and chart at rear. 8vo. A fine softback. This is a facsimile copy of the original published in 1875 with notes by Michael Hayward and includes a description of the Dryopteris affinis, D. filix-mas and D. oreades complex as well as a Nature Print.

pp. 238 with illus. vg. pbk. copy.

Botany Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. The Drawing Center/Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. pp.288 [17] with col. and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Out of print. Exhibition card for this work and a copy of Taxon magazine’s review of the book both loosely inserted. ‘Ocean Flowers’ explores a little-known moment of exhilarating artistic experimentation. The book focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on botanical drawings, cyanotypes and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name.

pp.168 with colour photographs and other figs. throughout. A vg. copy in sl. bumped dustwrapper.

Ebury Press., 1993. 1st. Ed.. pp.224 with colour photos. 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dw.