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London: Country Life Ltd. 2-10 Tavistock Street Covent Garden, [1950]. First Edition. First edition of this famous book who did a book on Humphrey Repton as well. Read More Item Details for Capability Brown. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey Add to Wish List

Item #256090

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Wellington: John Mackay, GPO, 1906. Inscribed on upper cover, "Dr. --Pranseau with L. Cockayne's Compliments." The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography sums up Cockayne's achievements: He "was one of the most influential of New Zealand's scientists. Although lacking formal training, he made important and original contributions to botany, stimulating research.....  Read More Item Details for On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri Add to Wish List

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[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century.....  Read More Item Details for Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten Add to Wish List

Item #247685

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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition. John Gerard was a 16th-century English botanist with a large herbal garden in London. His Herball, a 1,484 page illustrated book, was first published in 1597. It was a largely unacknowledged translation of Rembert Dodoen's herbal, itself published in.....  Read More Item Details for The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson Add to Wish List

Item #256107

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London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, 1755. Third edition, enlarged "with the Addition of Four Plates in Quarto" (first published in 1752). When Chinoiserie was all the Rage. The fashion for the Chinese style was initiated, according to Harris, by Frederick, the Prince of Wales, who in 1749 had a "House.....  Read More Item Details for Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forests the 3d. edition. With the adition [sic] of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese and Indian Temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying of the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion Add to Wish List

Item #244192

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Potsdam: nd. Humboldt writes to a colleague thanking them for a poem on the occasion of his "goldenen, geschlrchsloen Hochzeitfeyer" (translating literally as his 'Golden, non-sexual wedding feast'). He also refers to a lecture by Tieck, who sends his best wishes. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (" A. Humboldt"). In German 10 lines Add to Wish List

Item #254453

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Leipzig: Mainzer Presse, 1929-30. Kredel, Fritz. First trade edition. Koch and Kredel's Botanical Masterpiece. A superb collection of wildflower woodcuts by the noted artist and engraver Fritz Kredel, whose graver has caught perfectly the delicate beauty of Koch's original depictions. This is the first trade edition, preceded by a special.....  Read More Item Details for Das Blumenbuch Add to Wish List

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London: William Smith, 113, Fleet Street, 1840. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Ladies’ Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals Add to Wish List

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Paris: Levrault, Schoell et cie, 1804. First edition. Best known as a botanist and the author "North American Sylva," Michaux chronicles here an 1800-mile journey through the regions west of the Allegheny Mountains. Read More Item Details for Voyage à l'ouest des monts Alléghanys, dans les états de l'Ohio, du Kentucky, et du Tennessée, et retour à Charleston par les Hautes-Carolines Add to Wish List

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London: E. Lloyd, 1824. First Edition. Phillips (1775?-1838) was a Worthing banker, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnaean Society, and the author of several botanical works including the History of Cultivated Vegetables. Read More Item Details for Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre…with observations on planting, to secure a regular succession of flowers… Add to Wish List

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London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, [1718]. "The Second Edition, revis'd and finish'd." Best Edition. Read More Item Details for Of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. English'd by Mr. Gardiner Add to Wish List

Item #43670

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[London: Privately printed], 1885. Substantial and authoritative account of the Seychelles Archipelago, with original photographic plates recording drawings of botanical and zoological subjects, as well as views of the islands. The narrator describes climbing the Morne Seychellois, the principal mountain of the main island (2,975 feet). Uncommon. Read More Item Details for Six Years in Seychelles, with Photographs from Original Drawings Add to Wish List

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