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May 2013 Alpine Garden Society. Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society (59 Volumes). England: The Alpine Garden Soci- ety of Great Britain, 1930-1986.

Green cloth-covered boards with gold embossed titling to spines. Set consists of a complete run of Volumes I-LIV spanning the years 1930 to 1986, as well as the four Index Volumes: I-XV, XVI-XXX, XXXI-XL, and XLI-L; and the International Conference Report of 1971. Very Good. An important reference work in Alpine Plants. (#24145) $400.00

Andrews, James. The Parterre: Or, Beauties of Flora. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

Unpag. Folio. Green cloth-covered boards have light wear and scuffing from age. Gold embossed titling to cover, rear board, and spine still bright. Small losses at head and foot of spine. Edges gilded. Twelve (12) vibrant hand-colored plates. A stunning work of floral illustration paired with verse relating to each illustration. The Fuschia plate (Plate V, page 10) is loose but laid in at proper place in volume; chipping and losses at the edges of the plate, illustration clean and intact.Very Good. (#23881) $1,000.00

Bean, W. J. Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles (3 Vols.). London: John Murray, 1950.

Seventh Edition. Green cloth-covered boards with gold titling to spine. Scuff- ing from shelf wear, small chips and at right edge of front cover board, bumping to corners. Previous owner’s name in ink and bookplate on front pastedown in each volume. Volume 1 has a tape repair at gutter of rear pastedown. Green cloth-covered boards with gold titling to spine. Scuffing from shelf wear, small chips and at right edge of front cover board, bumping to corners. Previous owner’s name in ink and bookplate on front pastedown in each volume. Volume 1 has a tape repair at gutter of rear pastedown. An important reference in English horticulture, first published in two volumes in 1914, a third volume in 1933, and this Seventh Edition in 1950 with Bean finishing his review of the galley proofs weeks before his death. Very Good. (#18352) $100.00

Brainerd, Ezra. Violets of North America. Burlington, VT: Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, 1921.

Originally published as a paperbound reference, the previous owner had this copy bound as a hardcover book. Blue cloth covered boards with soiling from shelf wear. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing throughout. Color plates of many different varieties of violets. Very Good. (#18300) $80.00

Brown, O. Phelps. The Complete Herbalist or The People Their Own Phy- sicians by the Use of Nature’s Remedies. Jersey City, NJ: Self Published, 1867.

407, [1] ad. 12mo. Brown cloth-covered boards with gold embossed floral design on front cover board, blind embossed borders, gold embossed title to spine. Volume has been re-backed in our in-house bindery using original spine, new marble endpapers. Light foxing throughout. An important herbal reference. Very Good. (#21876) $100.00 Burbank, Luther; Whitson, John (Editor); John, Robert (Editor); Williams, Henry Smith (Editor). Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application (3 Volumes). New York and London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914.

Brown cloth-covered boards, with an embossed illustration of a cherry tree branch with red cherries dangling on covers, gold titling to spine. Light bumping to corners, scuffing from shelf wear. Profusely illustrated with tipped in color plates from photographs. Dedication page to the subscriber, Sarah H. Richardson, tipped in and signed by Robert John, one of the editors of the project. Very clean within. Very Good. (#23093) $75.00

Cane, Percy S. Modern Gardens: British & Foreign. London: The Studio, 1927.

166 pp. Black & white, color illustrations. Special Winter Number of “The Studio” 1926-27. Edited by C. Geoffrey Holme & Shirley B. Wainwright. Forest green cover is stamped on front with checkerboard design of embellished squares. Title block center front outlined and lettered in gilt. Bright gilt on spine. Beveled edges. Touches of wear to corners and spine head. There is a smudge of white on lower back and also three tiny spots on spine. Frontispiece is a garden watercolor by Beatrice Parsons. There are seven more color illustrations and numerous black & white photographs. Very Good. (#8834) $75.00

[Catalog] Tulip Catalog. Haarlem, Holland: Bond Van Bloembollenhan- delaren.

Black leather-covered scrapbook has touches of edgewear and soil, but its metal spiral binding is tight and its contents are exquisite! Front cover is warped. Contains 32 cards, each 5 1/2 x 7,” each illustrating a single tulip blossom, identifying the species by name and season. Some of the cards are signed with the initials “LM.” All are absolutely lovely, bright chromolitho- graphs. At the lower edge of each card is “Copyright Bond van Bloembol- lenhandelaren, Haarlem” and “Printed in the Netherlands.” Captions are in English. The book is arranged with two cards per page, each page protected by a tissue printed with traces of flowers. Edges of some of the tissue covers are aged or chipped. Likely dates to the end of the 19th century. Very Good. (#11098) $300.00

Chittenden, Fred J. (editor). The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture (4 Volumes). London: Oxford University Press, 1951.

4to. Green cloth-covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. An exceptional set. Fine. (#24339) $125.00

Chung, In-Cho. The Arctic and the Rockies as Seen By a Botanist Pictorial. Seoul, Korea: Samhwa Printing Co., Ltd., 1984.

First Printing. 343 pp. + 1 pp errata sheet. Green cloth-covered boards with gold embossed titling cover board and spine. Clean, crisp copy, signed by author on title page. Limited to 500 copies. Fine. (#24006) $75.00 [Church, Thomas] Treib, Marc (Editor). Thomas Church, Landscape Ar- chitect: Designing a Modern California Landscape. San Franciscio, CA: William Stout Publishers, 2004.

First Printing. 283 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with the faintest whisper of sunning at the dust jacket spine, now in mylar cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. (#23721) $125.00

Constantin, Julien. Atlas des Orchidées Cultivées. Paris: L. Orlhac, n.d. [c. 1920].

91 pp + 30 plates. Folio. Green buckram covered boards, with gold embossed titling to spine, previous owner’s name embossed in gold at lower right corner of front board, light scuffing. Clean within, original wraps intact and protected by later hardcover binding. Thirty plates depict over 500 different color examples of orchid varieties. Text in French. Very Good. (#24095) $600.00

Correvon, Henry. Album des Orchidées D’Europe. Geneve: H. Correvon, 1923.

Second Edition. 68, [3], 66 Plates. 4to. Dark brown paper wraps with an orchid illustration on the front cover. Light scuffing and wear, front cover has separated at base from spine for 3”. Interior is clean and crisp, all plates except LVI (which is in black & white) are vibrant and bright. Stunning! Plate XLIX has had the bottom 1-1/2” strip removed at some point and then re- attached. Inscription to previous owner in ink on first free endpaper. Very Good. (#24534) $500.00

Culpeper, Nicholas; Sibley, Ebenezer (Editor). Culpeper’s English Physi- cian; and Complete Herbal. London: Lewis and Roden, 1805.

As. xvi, 350, 25 plates. 4to. Full leather binding, cover boards have a beveled edge. Boards detached, spine still clinging to rear board. Marbled endpapers with foredges marbled to replicate endpapers, text block tight. Engraved por- trait of Culpeper at frontispiece. Plate 1 repeated twice, first time uncolored, second time colored as are all of the subsequent plates (1-24), depicting various plants from the herbal in alphabetical order. Good. (#24825) $400.00

Curtis, William. The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed (Volumes 1-28 Bound into 14). London: W. Curtis, 1787-1808.

8vo. Complete run of The Botanical Magazine beginning in 1787 and con- cluding in 1808. Contains all 1,109 plates. Occasional light foxing in the text. Plates exquisite, some off toning from plates to facing pages. An unbelievable set with many fold-out plates that are as sharp and clean as the date they were completed. Includes index to Volumes 1-20 bound into the fourteenth bound volume which also contains Volume 27 & 28. Full brown leather-covered boards with tree calf covers, all volumes re-backed at some point. Consid- erable wear and scuffing to all, Volume 11-12 (sixth bound volume) missing black oval Volume number stamped in gold indicating two issues within. Vol- ume 19-20 (tenth bound volume) has detached front board. Each volume has the bookplate of Viscount Hood on the front pastedown, pasted over an earlier bookplate that cannot be read. Also pasted in Volume 1-2 on the first free endpaper is the original catalog description from when the set last changed hands. Very Good. (#23765) $15,000.00

Curtis, Winifred; Stones, Margaret. The Endemic Flora of Tasmania (2 Volumes). London: The Ariel Press, 1967/1969.

Part I: 68 pp, Plates I-XXIII . Part II: 65 pp, Plates XXIV-XLVII. Elephant Folio. Both volumes are Very Good in overall condition except for a large divot that has been banged into the spine of each volume, 3” up from the foot; dust jacket and cover cloth torn/ripped on each. Red cloth-covered boards with gold embossed outline of Tasmania on cover boards, gold titling to spine. Dust jacket also has light wear and scuffing, light staining here and there. Interiors clean and crisp. Color plates from paintings by Margaret Stone. Very good in very good dust jacket. (#24822) $300.00

Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Cen- turies: Their History, Makers and Uses With a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They are Found. Washington DC: Gordon Dunthorne, 1938. xiv, 275 pp. Folio. 79 full-page color and black & white illustrations. Tan buckram boards with a beveled edge; inset green octagon title label with gold embossed titling on cover boards, brown patch title with gold embossed titling on spine. Clean and crisp within. Matching buckram cloth covered slipcase in Very Good condition with very light staining across base. Published in an edition of 2,500 copies at the Lakeside Press, Chicago, IL. Fine. (#24675) $125.00

Elgood, George S. Italian Gardens. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907. x, 157 pp. Folio. Blue cloth covered boards with light wear, minor bumping to corners. Black endpapers with a few chips to the edges of the front first free endpaper, top edge gilded. 52 color plates by the author/illustrator. Very Good. A beautiful interptetation of Italian gardens. (#24033) $125.00

Evelyn, John; Keynes, Geoffrey (Editor). Directions for the Gardiner at Says- Court But Which May be of Use for Other Gardens. England: Nonesuch Press, 1932.

Orange dust jacket with decorative border and title on front and spine. Consider- able chipping and wear to edges, losses at corners, in mylar cover. Cover boards covered in marbled paper, with the same paper being used as endpapers. Paper beginning to chip along cover boards hinges, but still tight and intact. Copy #44 of 625 produced for the English Market, 175 copies were also produced for the American market and distributed by Random House. Designed by Francis Mey- nell and printed in the types of Janson on Van Gelder paper by the Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press. Very good in good dust jacket. (#19396) $225.00 Farrer, Reginald; Clay, Sampson. The English Rock-Garden (2 Volumes). London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd, 1922.

First Printing. lxiv, 504 pp.; viii, 524 pp., 8vo. Green cloth-covered boards with small chips and tears at edges, bumping to corners. Large Hatchard’s bookseller label on front pastedown of Volume I, slightly loose in boards. Minor age toning to endpapers of each volume, clean within. Very Good. (#18318) $100.00

[Fine Press] Todd, Glenn (Editor); Dine, Nancy (Editor). The Temple of Flora. San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 1984.

Elephant Folio. Green quarter-leather binding with light green cloth covered-boards, titling in gold embossed on spine. Housed in a custom box of the same light green cloth, it is topped by a bas-relief sculpture of the Temple of Flora by Jim Dine, with a green leather inlaid doorway with the edition title in gold. A stunning presentation with light spotting around the outer edge, which appears to have only had an effect on the box exterior, two light rust colored spots on bottom of box near foredge. Includes separate print “Details from Nancy’s Garden” in printed paper folder with tissue guard, signed and numbered by Dine. Fourteenth book of the Arion Press. Fine. Book contains twenty-eight dry-point etchings by Jim Dine and botanical notes and poetry selected by Todd Glenn and Nancy Dine. Inspired by the original “Temple of Flora” by Dr. Robert John Thornton (1765-1837) published in 1807, this edition, also printed in folio with full page plates, steps away from the color vibrancy of that edition to look at a more stark depiction of the flowers repre- sented within. Poetry by John Ashbery, Richard G. Barnes, Hart Crane, Rob- ert Creeley, E. E. Cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Robert Hass, Andrew Hoyem, Ronald Johnson, Denise Levertov, Josephine Miles, Frank O’Hara, Ron Padgett, Robert Pinsky, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, James Schuyler, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, Philip Whalen, Jonathan Williams, and William Carlos Williams. Set in Monotype and Romulus type and printed on Rives BFK paper Signed in pencil on lim- itation page by Jim Dine, this is number 7 of 175. Fourteenth publication of the Arion Press. (#20652) $6,250.00

Fouquier, M.; Duchene, A. Des Divers Styles de Jardins: Modèles de Grandes et Petites Résidences. Sur l’Art Décoratif des Jardins. Jardins Européens et Jardins Orientaux. Paris: Emile Paul, 1914.

[12], 216 pp. Folio. Original printed wraps with original glassine dust wrapper with some losses at rear. Interior clean with many pages uncut. Numerous historical plans and drawings as well as photographs of gardens in France, Europe and Asia. Text block signatures have released from each other at pp. 64/65. This is the binder’s wrap so the signatures have never been sewn and the volume was not intended to survive in this original cover. Very Good. (#24096) $100.00

Fullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First. 347 pp. 4to. Illustrations and black & white photographs. Gray covers have photograph pasted on front of a woman pushing a harrow through her garden. Covers are soiled. Contents are clean and tight, although both sets of endpapers are separated at hinge. Very Good. (#12358) $70.00 Garden Club of America. The Garden Club of America. History: 1913-1938. Philadelphia, PA: The Garden Club of America, 1938.

177 pp. Black cloth spine with cream colored paper-covered boards, bumping to corners, lower right corner has a loss of paper. Clean within. Very Good. Hard Cover. (#24021) $75.00

Gleason, Henry A. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adja- cent Canada (3 Volumes). New York: The New York Botanical Garden, 1952.

First Printings of each volume. Vol. 1, “The teridophyta, Gymnospermae and Monocotyledoneae--Lycopodiaceae to Orchidaceae, Clubmoss to Adam-and-Eve”, 482 pp.; Vol. 2, “The Choripetalous Dicotyledoneae--Saururaceae to Cornaceae, Lizard’s-tail to Cotton Gum”, 655 pp; Vol. 3, “The Sympetalous Dicotyledonear--Clethraceae to Com- positae, Sweet Pepper-bush to Goat’s Beard”, 589 pp. Green cloth-covered boards with a plant motif appropriate to each volume embossed on over boards, bright gold titling to spine. An extremely clean and important set with only a whisper of age toning to the edges of the pages due to age. Fine. (#20312) $300.00

Haskell, Eric T. The Gardens of Brecy: A Lasting Landscape. Paris: Les Editions du Huitieme Jour, 2008.

First Printing. Clean, crisp copy signed by author on title page. A scarce and beautiful book. Fine in fine dust jacket. (#23008) $200.00

Hedrick, U. P.; Booth, N. O.; Taylor, O. M.; Wellington, R.; Dorsey, M. J. The Grapes of New York. Albany, NY: New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1908.

Green cloth-covered boards with some mottling due to moisture earlier in this volume’s life. Previous owner’s bookplate pasted to front pastedown as well as other previous owner’s name in ink on first free endpaper. Interior clean and bright with full-page color plates throughout of the different grape varieties of New York State at the time. An important reference work. Very Good. (#17929) $350.00

Hedrick, U. P.; Howe, G. H.; Taylor, O. M.; Tubergen, C. B.; Wellington, R. The Cherries of New York. Albany, NY: New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1915.

Green cloth-covered boards with gold titling to spine and cover boards, minor bumping to corners, slight mottling from moisture damage at an earlier age. Previous owner’s bookplate pasted to front pastedown, another owner’s name in ink on first free endpaper. Interior clean and bright with full-page color plates throughout of the different cherries of New York State at the time. An important reference work. Very Good. (#17931) $400.00

Hedrick, U. P.; Howe, G. H.; Taylor, O. M.; Tubergen, C. B. The Peaches of New York. Albany, NY: New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1917.

Green cloth-covered boards with gold titling to spine and cover boards, minor bumping to corners, wear at edges. Previous owner’s bookplate pasted to front pastedown, another previous owner’s name in ink on first free endpaper. Interior clean and bright with full-page color plates throughout of the different peach varieties of New York State at the time. An important reference work. Very Good. (#17933) $350.00 Hervey, Rev. A.B. Flowers of the Field and Forest. Boston - New York: L.C. Page & Company, 1899.

As. Unpag. Color plates. Subtitle: “From original water-color drawings after nature, by Isaac Sprague....with ex- tracts from Longfellow, Lowell, Bryant, Emerson, and others.” Cover cloth is tan tinged with gilt, lettered front and spine in silver gray. Back boards have more of a green undertone. Top edges tinted brown. Insignificant touches of edge wear. Endpapers ghosted as if a jacket had been present, although there is none included. Slight touches of foxing on endpapers. This is a beautiful book, with chapters on ten wildflowers, each including a full-page chromolithographed plate in exquisite color. The tissue-protected plates are as new, although three of the tissues are slightly blemished. Very Good. (#10758) $125.00

Hetley, Mrs. Charles [Georgina Barne]. The Native Flowers of New Zealand: Illustrated in Colours in the Best Style of Modern Chromo-Litho Art from Drawings Couloured to Nature. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington (Limited), 1888.

Folio. [4], 8, [2] pp. 36 colored plates. Published in three parts, bound as one. Green leather covered boards with gold embossed border to front and rear boards, gold titling to spine, gold floral motif at turn-ins along border, marbled endpapers. Binding has wear and scuffing. 1” tear in leather at foot of spine on hinge, 1-1/2” tear at head of spine on hinge, bumping to corners. Text block tight to boards, compression bump to upper right corner where volume appears to have been dropped at some point, causing a minor bend to the corners, all edges gilded. Earlier bookseller catalog description (small) pasted to first free endpaper. Very light foxing to second free endpaper. All plates bright with tissue guards present. Overall, exterior shows some wear, interior bright. Very good. (#24130) $1,250.00

Hirose, Yoshimichi; Yokoi, Masato. Variegated Plants in Color (2 Volumes). Iwakuni, Japan: Varie Nine Ltd., 1998.

Volume 1, 1998; Volume 2, 2001. Rare set in any condition, these are fine. Although bound in wraps, each has a dust jacket. Clean and crisp throughout, text in both Japanese and English. Profusely illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Soft Cover. (#23052) $300.00

Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Hooker, William J. (Editor). The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; Being an Account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons Recently Discovered in the Mountains of Eastern Himala- ya, from Drawings and Descriptions Made on the Spot, During a Govern- ment Botanical Mission to that Country. London: Reeve and Co., 1849-[51].

First Issue. 14, 7, [33], 30 colored plates. Elephant Folio. Burgundy cloth-covered boards in what appears to be a 19th century cloth binding; small repair at head of spine toward rear board. “Hooker’s Rhododendrons” embossed in still bright gold on front cover board, gold titling to spine has faded somewhat with age and sunning. General scuffing and wear to cover boards as expected. Yellow paper endpapers appear to have been replaced at the time of the re-backing of the book which re-used of the 19th century binding, an exceptional job that is hardly noticeable. Small blind embossed label at base of rear pastedown near gutter states it was “Bound By David Stevens.” This is a First Edition, not to be confused with the Second Edition that contains a tinted lithographic print on the title page. The First Edition exhibits a small circular profile of a man with the words “Nulla Dies” and “Sine Linea” at the right and left edges. Light age toning to the title page. All 30 plates intact and crisp, colors unbelievably vibrant, a whisper of age toning at edges of each plate as is to be expected. Minor spotting here and there on the text leaves facing each plate. (Great Flower Books (1990) p. 101). Very Good. An absolutely stunning book based on sketches by Joseph Dalton Hooker during his travel and explorations in Sikkim (now part of India), Tibet, and Ne- pal. Hooker’s father, Sir William Hooker was director of Kew Gardens and saw the illustrations through to publication, with plates by botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch based on the younger Hooker’s sketches. Volume is contained in an appropriately designed clamshell box. (#23003) $17,500.00

Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Hooker, W. J. (Editor). Illustrations of Himalayan Plants Chiefly Selected from Drawings Made for the Late J. F. Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service. London: Lovell Reeve, 1855.

iv, [33], 24 colored plates. An exquisite hand-colored title page and 24 hand-colored plates. Brown cloth-covered boards with spine that has been re-backed, considerable scuffing and staining given its age, corners bumped with cloth losses and cardboard revealed at each. Light spotting to title page which is also hand-colored, light red pen mark at top of title page 2” in length, page has also been mis-folded at time with some minor creases. Foxing to endpapers front and rear. All 24 plates by botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch based on the Cath- cart’s drawings are intact and crisp, colors unbelievably vibrant, a whisper of age toning at edges of each plate as is to be expected. Minor spotting here and there on the text leaves as well as some foxing on tissue guards, with small tears as well. The following plates have additional spotting beyond what is normal for a volume of this age: Plate IX has a 1/2” tear at foredge, 7-3/8” from foot; Plate XI light staining upper right corner; Plate XVI light staining at edges; Plate 25 light foxing, transference from tissue guard page. Volume is contained in an appropriately designed custom clamshell box made by the bookseller’s in-house bindery. Very Good. According to Patrick M. Synge in Great Flower Books, p. 101, “Con- tains probably the finest plates of Magnolia Campbellii and Meconopsis simplicifolia ever made...” (#23005) $25,000.00

House, H. D. Wild Flowers of New York (2 Volumes). Albany, NY: The University of the State of New York, 1918.

Green cloth-covered boards with considerable scuffing and wear to edges and corners. Each volume slightly shaken in boards, previous owner’s bookplate pasted to front pastedown of each volume. Minor foxing to endpapers of each volume, profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates throughout each volume. Good. (#17935) $150.00

Ioki, Bunsai; Ohba, Hideaki (Introduction & Botanical Notes). Japanese Alpine Plants Illustrations. Tokyo: Ya- saka Shobo, Inc., 1982.

150 pp. Folio. Tan cloth-covered boards with blind embossed turtle logo on front board, protective opaque dust jacket clean and crisp. Interior is a stunning collection of 99 color plates of Bunsai Ioki’s work along with an image key in black and white at the rear with Botanical notes for each plate. All in Japanese except for the Editor’s note on page 150 that provides a very brief overview of Ioki’s work. Housed in custom color printed slipcase that has light chipping and wear at the edges. A stunning book. Fine in fine dust jacket. (#24453) $500.00 Itoh, Teiji. Imperial Gardens of Japan. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1989.

Fifth Printing, 1989. 290 pp. Imperial purple cloth binding with blind-stamped, bright gilt chrysanthemum medal- lion on front cover. Blind-stamped, bright gilt lettering on spine. Binding is clean and crisp. Dust jacket clean and crisp, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Internally as new. Fine in fine dust jacket. (#21861) $75.00

Iwata, Seido. Sekiso. Tokyo, Japan: Heibonsha Ltd., 1966.

Unpag. Beige cloth-covered boards. Filled with color photographs of different Japanese flower arrangements. Very Good. (#24022) $75.00

Jekyll, Gertrude. Garden Ornament. Easthampton, MA: Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1982.

First Antique Collector’s Club edition. 460 pp. Dust jacket has small loss at top of spine on rear panel, minor scuffing, now in mylar cover. Decorated endpapers with the image of a garden and folly. Gift inscription to previous owner on second free endpaper. Clean and crisp within. An important book in English garden design that first ap- peared in Country Life Magazine. Book has a slight musty smell. Very Good in very good dust jacket. (#23786) $75.00

Kingdon-Ward, F. Plant Hunter in Manipur. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952.

254 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light scuffing from shelf wear, small chips and loss at head and foot of spine, small 1/2” loss within publisher logo, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very good in very good dust jacket. (#24263) $70.00

Kitao, Shigemasa. Shashin Kacho Zue “Natural Study of Flowers and Birds” (4 Volumes). Japan, 1805 & 1813.

Three volumes are in a light blue paper-covered boards, the fourth binding is in red. All four bindings have a paper title in Japanese characters pasted to the front cover of each volume. According to an earlier bookseller label in the first volume, the three blue bindings were published in 1805, the single red volume in 1813. Light wear, scuffing, and minor creasing to each volume. All are housed in a later tri-fold cloth case with bone-clasp closures. Interior images clean and quite bright, all consist of a com- bination of birds and florals and almost all are double-page. Very Good. (#24087) $1,000.00 La Quintinye (Jean-Baptiste de) . Instruction Pour Les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers, Avec un Traité des Orangers, Suivy de Quelques Réflexions sur l’Agriculture (2 Volumes). Paris: Claude Barbin, 1690.

Instructions for Fruit and Vegetable Gardens. 4to. Volume I: 1, 6, 16, 522, 2 pp. Volume II: 566, 2 pp. Volume I begins with a 6 page dedication to the King of France, Louis XIV, followed by 16 pages of poems, the first an ode to Pomona by Santolius Victorinus, and a frontispiece engraving of La Quntinye followed by an ode to La Quntinye by Perrault. Volume I contains 3 plates: pp. 32/33 tri-fold plate of the Potager du Roy a Versailles (Kitchen Garden of the King at Versailles), older Japanese paper tape repair at verso width of plate where it was completely separated in half; pp. 304/305 tri-fold plate of 15 illustrations of pruning instructions; pp. 504/505 tri-fold plate of 15 illustrations of pruning instructions. Volume I divided into three parts, each section begins with an engraving at the top of the page introducing that section, illustrated first letter of lead paragraph, small illustration engravings inserted into text throughout. P. 276 has a 1-3/4” tear at upper right corner along gutter, lower right corner of p. 277 has a 2”x3” piece missing. Volume II divided into three parts, IV-VI, each section begins with an engraving at the top of the page introducing that section, illustrated first letter of lead paragraph, small illustration engravings inserted into text throughout. Also includes two additional sections, Traité de la Culture des Orangers and Reflexions sur Quelques Parties de l’Agricutlure, each section beginning with an engraving and cap- ital engraving. Volume II contains 11 plates: p. 24/25, single page with 9 examples of pruning; p. 26/27, single page with 9 examples of pruning; p. 36/37, single page illustration of a pruning knife; p. 38/39, single page illustration of a pruning saw; p. 42/43, single page with 9 examples of pruning; p. 52/53, single page with 12 examples of pruning; p. 66/67, single page with 11 examples of pruning; p. 76/77, single page with 12 examples of pruning; p. 158/159, single page with 2 examples of pruning; p. 160/161, single page with 9 examples of pruning; p. 246/247, single page illustration of a pruning knife.

Full leather with five raised bands at spine, elaborately decorated panels between bands, gilded decoration with gold embossed patch titling in second panel from top, volume number on third panel from top. Contemporary bindings with considerable chipping and wear at edges, scuffing, splitting at head and foot, but all cords on which the signatures are sewn are intact and tight to the boards and spine. Small losses at head and base of spine from leather chipping. An early 1” wide inventory sticker affixed to upper right corner of rear board next to hinge of Volume I. Very light age toning to pages, light swelling to each volume at foredge due to the high quality of this paper and its interaction with the environment for over 300 years. An amazing record of La Quintinye’s lesson learned as the director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens under Louis XIV. A high spot in books on garden history. Very Good. (#24030) $8,000.00 Le Bon Jardinier Almanach Pour L’Anée 1858 (2 Volumes). Paris: Librarie Agricole De La Maison Rustique, 1858.

1563 pp. 12mo. Subtitle: Contenant les principes generaux de culture; l’indication, mois par mois, des travaux a faire dans les jardins; la description, l’histoire et la culture de toutes les plantes potagers, cereales, fourrageres, industrielles, des oignons et plants a fleurs, des arbres fruitiers, des arbres ou arbustes utiles ou d’agrement, et des notions elementaires de botanique hort’cole; un vocabulaire des termes de Jardinage et de Botanique; un jardin de plantes medicinales; un tableau des vegetaux groupes d’apres la place qu’ils doivent occuper dans les Parterres, Bosquets, etc...” Handsome books have fine brown leather spines and corners, set off by blind rules. Four raised bands on spine, bright gold embossed titling. Brown marbled paper covered boards, lightly scuffed with shelfwear to edges, corners bumped. Yellow endpapers are aged and lightly soiled. Each book has tiny sticker on front pastedown from a Philadelphia bookseller. Contents are foxed and pages are a slighlty brittle, but binding is tight. There are no illustrations in these books, but an assortment of specimens have been pressed within the pages. All text in French. Very Good. (#9829) $125.00

Lockwood, Alice G. B. (Editor). Gardens of Colony and State: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Col- onies and of the Republic Before 1840 (2 Volumes). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons for The Garden Club of America, 1931/1934. xxii, 464, xxi, 444 pp. Folio. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to cover boards and spines. Minor bumping to corners, yellowish pinpoint spots to front and rear boards of both volumes. Volume I: Massachu- setts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michi- gan, Ohio, Illinois. Volume II: Virginia, Washington, DC, Maryland, Delaware, South and North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and California. Clean within. Very Good. (#24820) $175.00

Lowe, E.J. A Natural History of British Grasses. Covent Garden: Bell and Daldy, 1871.

As. First Bell and Daldy Edition, originally published by Groombridge in 1858. vi, 245, [1], 8 ads. 4to. 74 “finely coloured plates.” Green cover has stamped design, gilt grass on front, gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped; edges & hinges worn, as are top & bottom of spine. Originally published in 1858, this is the first edition from Bell. Ink inscription on first free endpaper. Very light traces of foxing. Good. (#1165) $125.00

Lowe, Edward Joseph. Ferns: British and Exotic (8 Volumes). London: Bell and Daldy, 1872.

Second Edition. 8vo. Green three quarter leather binding with five raised bands, gold embossed titling and floral decorations in each compartment. Red marbled paper inserts on covers, matching endpapers. Each volume has the bookplate of previous owner, Ed- ward Henry Scott, affixed to each front pastedown. Each volume has all edges gilded, light wear and scuffing to covers and edges. Light foxing to prelims of each volume, illustrations clean and bright with tissue guard over each. 479 plates total. Very Good. (#24088) $1,000.00 National Garden Association. The Garden Library (6 Volumes). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928.

Set includes: The Vegetable Garden by Adolph Kruhm and I. D. Bennett; Flower Growing by Leonard Barron; House Plants by Parker T. Barnes; Planning Your Garden by W. S. Rogers; Roses and How To Grow Them by J. Horace McFarland; Lawnmaking by Leonard Barron. All dust jackets have chipping and wear at edges, sunning to spine. Lawnmaking volume has 1” tear along spine at foot; “Flower Growing” has loss at top of spine at front panel of dust jacket. Clean within. Very Good in good dust jackets. (#18816) $125.00

Phillpotts, Eden. My Shrubs. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1915.

132, [4] ads. 4to. Book is in a protective book cover. Front cover and spine have bright, stamped gilt lettering and decorations. Edge-wear, particularly to spine ends. Corners are bumped and worn. Front hinge is beginning to start. Previous owner’s name, in pencil, on first free endpaper. Fifty, full-page, black & white photos. Text is slightly aged, but clean. Very Good. (#1314) $85.00

Pratt, Anne. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain, and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails (6 Volumes). London: Frederick Warne & Co.

As. A three volume set was first published in 1855 by the Society For Pro- moting Christian Knowledge in London. This edition, in six volumes, is believed to have been published in the 1870s. Green cloth-covered boards with black embossed design to cover boards and spine. Gold embossing clean and bright, wear and rubbing to corners of each volume, slight fraying to top and bottom of spines, some small tears at hinges, stain to upper left corner of each text block, but it has not impacted the interior pages. Volume I is loose in boards, front hinge starting; Volumes II-VI tight. Each volume has a library stamp and hand written identification label, card pockets pasted to rear first free endpaper, discoloration at base of spine where library call number has been removed. Dark brown endpapers, light foxing throughout all chromo- lithograph plates still quite sharp. Very Good. (#19668) $500.00

Robinson, Samuel. A Course of Fifteen Lectures, On Medical Botany: Denominated Thompson’s New Theory of Medical Practice; in which the Various Theories that have Preceded it are Reviewed and Compared. Bos- ton, MA: George A. Chapman, 1838.

216 pp, 16mo. Delivered in Cincinnati, 1829. Small book is a much-faded red with paper label on spine. Corners lightly bumped. Edges & interior have some foxing. Very Good. (#1512) $125.00

Rose, James C. Gardens Make Me Laugh. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Revised. Dust jacket has minor sunning to spine, no tears or losses, inside text is crisp and clean. Multiple black and white photographs. Very Good in very good dust jacket. (#20184) $75.00 Schmiemann, Gisela; Westrich, Josh. Helen Ballard: The Hellebore Queen. Koln, Germany: Edition Art and Nature, 1997.

121 pp. Beautifully produced with wonderful photographs throughout of Hel- lebore. Fine. (#24027) $75.00

Sitwell, Sacheverell; Blunt, Wilfrid; Synge, Patrick M. (Editor of Biblioga- phy). Great Flower Books 1700-1900. London: Collins, 1956.

94 pp. Elephant Folio. 36 plates. Cloth and marbled covered boards, light sunning to head and foot of spine, slight curve to entire book from however it was stored for decades. Dust jacket has numerous chips and losses, plastic cover starting to separate from paper on rear cover. Interior clean. Produced in an edition of 1750 copies. Very Good in poor dust jacket. (#24824) $100.00

Slade, Daniel Denison. The Evolution of Horticulture in New England. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895.

180 pp. 12mo. Pages uncut. Tan marbled paper boards with tan calf spine and corners. Spine has bright gilt, blind- stamped lettering. Spine and covers are somewhat aged, slightly soiled and edge-worn. Portions of the spine have perished, including approximately 3/4” at the top of the spine. Approximately 1/4 of the lettering is missing. Spine is cracked and/or split along the hinges. Leather corners are quite rubbed. Spine ends are missing. Corners are bumped and frayed to the boards. Edges are somewhat soiled. Title page has red and black lettering and a decorative border. There is a small, semi-circular damp stain at the top of the last page/rear endpapers. Good. (#5050) $100.00

Upton, Rebecca A. Home Studies. Boston: Crosby, Nichols And Co., 1856.

246 pp. 12mo. Brown cover is blind stamped with rules & pub. logo center front & back. Covers are worn, scuffed, and soiled...but all there! Spine missing cloth, but binding is holding. Endpapers are foxed and have damp stains which penetrate a few pages into the text. A rare treasury of information for “both housekeeper and gardner [sic], whether residing in village, country, or city.....the various fortunes of the American woman whose life is often partly spent in cities, partly on Western praries [sic], and partly on Southern plantations, - perhaps begun in affluence, to be finally shorn of all but health, hands, and unfailing courage.” Recipes and common sense in one volume. Good. Hardcover. (#5547) $95.00

Veitch, James Herbert. A Travellers Notes; or, Notes of a Tour Through In- dia, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, The Australian Colonies and New Zealand During the Years 1891-1893. London: James Veitch & Sons Royal Exotic Nursery, 1896.

219 pp. Green cloth-covered boards with black title in a Japanesque manner as well as Asian characters on a pasted white paper label. Boards have a beveled edge, shelf wear at the edges, minor losses at the corners, and scuffing to the spine. Light foxing to the preliminary pages, light foxing/dust staining along text block edges. 9 black & white plates on a heavier weight paper of various botanical specimens and landscapes from the author’s travels. Plate I is missing its protective tissue. Folding map at frontis showing Veitch’s route. Very Good. Veitch and Sons was a very successful English plant nursery and this volume surely supplemented their business and provided a busman’s hol- iday for its author. (#24457) $250.00 Ward, F. Kingdon. A Plant Hunter in Tibet. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934.

Rust cloth-covered boards, minor soiling from shelf wear. Minor sunning to spine. Previous owner’s bookplate and name in ink on front pastedown. Good. (#18338) $75.00

Ward, F. Kingdon. The Romance of Plant Hunting. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.

Re-bound in green leather along spine, gold cloth to cover boards. Bound in bookseller’s bindery. Clean within, all plates intact, fold-out map in rear missing. Fine. (#19620) $100.00

Weathers, John. The Bulb Book; or, Bulbous and Tuberous Plants for the Open Air, Stove, and Greenhouse. London: John Murray, 1911.

Green cloth-covered boards with gold titling to front cover board and spine. Scuffing from shelf wear, small chips and at right edge of front cover board, bumping to corners. Previous owner’s name in ink and bookplate on front pastedown. Clean within. Very Good. (#18340) $75.00

Williams, Bunny; Drew, Nancy. On Garden Style. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Third Printing. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Inscribed by Bunny Williams to the recipient, whose gardens Wil- liams had visited in 2000. Laid in is a letter to the recipient from Williams thanking her for the visit and referencing the book. Book has a slight musty smell. Fine in fine dust jacket. (#23783) $150.00

Willmott, Ellen. The Genus Rosa (25 Parts). London: John Murray, 1910- 1914.

xxvii, 551 pp. Folio. 137 chromolithographed plates, each protected by tipped-in tissue, black and white illustrations throughout. Published in an edition of twenty-five parts, this set also includes the additional order form with a complimentary plate of a rose to give subscribers an idea of the size and quality of the production; paper has faded on this one piece due to sunning. Parts I-XXVI have no sunning and are encased in a dark grey wrap titled in a dark blue ink. Edition is split into two separate green cloth-covered foli- os with green ribbon ties. Some wear and fraying at the edges. Part I has a mark from a rusted paper clip on the front wrap and first free endpaper. Interiors clean. Part XXV includes binder instructions and corrected plates and insertions missed as the edition was printed. Text uncut. Very Good. A monumental work by Ellen Willmott, the edition took almost four years to produce between September of 1910 and March of 1914 and is rare to find in its original binder wraps. Specimens illustrated by Alfred Parsons are quite stunning and were all drawn from life in Willmott’s gardens at Warley and Tresserve. (#24079) $3,500.00

Wilson, Ernest H. Plant Hunting (2 Volumes). Boston, MA: The Stratford Company, 1927. xxix, 248 pp; ix, 276 pp. 8vo. Green cloth-covered boards, gold titling to spine that has faded. Scuffing from shelf wear. Heavily illustrated with photographs taken by Wilson. Very Good. Special Autograph Edition Signed by Wil- son on half-title page. (#18349) $175.00 Wilson, Ernest H. The Romance of Our Trees. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920.

278 pp. 8vo. Green cloth-covered boards with a green cloth spine. Small photogravure of a large tree inset in a gold bordered box at lower right corner of front cover boards. Light scuffing to photograph as well as bumping to board corners revealing cardboard beneath. Gold embossed titling to spine. Light age toning to endpapers, small circles of staining at top of half-title page which has transferred through to frontispiece photo and title page. Clean within. Very Good. Limited to an edition of 1,000 copies, this is copy #710. (#24209) $200.00

Wise, John R. The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1880.

viii, 336 pp. 4to. 63 black & white proof impressions by Walter Crane and engraved by Wm. Linton, pasted-in, plus 5 maps in text. One of 250 copies printed on large paper, India proofs. Red leather cover with rules, pointelle, corner designs and center medallions on both front and rear. Spine has five raised bands, gilt designs and lettering. Spine has been skillfully repaired. Elaborate red marbled endpapers with dentelle edges. All edges gilded. Oc- casional light foxing. Four appendices are included, including a “glossary of some of the provincialisms used in the new forest.” Very Good. (#1446) $250.00

Wooster, David (Editor). Alpine Plants: Figures and Descriptions of Some of the Most Striking and Beautiful of the Alpine Flowers (2 Volumes). London: George Bell & Sons, 1874.

Second Edition. xi, 152 pp.; 140 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with blind embossed borders to front and rear boards, bold embossed plant in large vase on the cover board of each volume. Bumping and scuffing to boards and corners, spine darkened from sunning, small losses at head and foot of each spine. Both volumes are slightly loose in boards with tender gutters at front and rear pastedowns. Collaged with 54 color plant illustrations, with tissue guards, in each volume. Interiors quite clean and colors bright. Good. (#24533) $300.00

Wright, Mabel Osgood. The Garden of a Commuter’s Wife. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1902.

Fourth Printing. 354 pp. 12mo. Olive green cover is decorated with flower- and-vine pattern in peach and silver, front and spine. Silver lettering is bright on front, slightly sunned on spine. Corners lightly bumped. Top edge gilt. Previous owner’s name in pencil on front pastedown, small ink inscription on first free endpaper. 8 black & white full-page illustrations have tissue covers captioned in red. Contents clean and binding tight. Very Good. Hardcover. (#7887) $100.00