The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory
Rochester, NY and later New York, New York: James Vicks, Jr, 1856-1866. First edition. Volumes 1-8 and Volumes... Read More
Price: $1,500
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23 Chromolithographic Plates from "Florilegium Harlemense"
[London: 1908] ]. Read More
Price: $1,200
42 original watercolors
Album of original watercolors of flowers.
ca. 1831-1865. 42 original watercolors. An album of highly accomplished amateur watercolors of flowers — including the double oleander, tiger lilly, China rose, viola, poppy, and tulip. Read More
Price: $6,000
The American Home. Ellen D. Wangner, Editor.
Garden City, New York: Published by Doubleday, Doran & Compan, Inc, 1928-1950. Continuing the Garden & Home Builder. Read More
Price: $750
Fleuriste Artificiel contenant huit planches, dont une double.
[Paris: Diderot & D'alambert, nd. c. 1751-1780]. Read More
Price: $150
Dwarf Trees (Bonsai).
Tokyo & Osaka: The Sanseido Company Ltd, (1940). First edition. Read More
Price: $250
New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical.
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix. Read More
Price: $750
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Luther Burbank. His Method Discoveries and Their Practical Application. Prepared from his original field notes...under the Editorial Direction of John...
New York and London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914. Signed by Burbank on the Colophon page (designed by Tiffany & Co.). Dr. L. G. Visscher's Copy. SIGNED. Read More
Price: $325
Plant Hunter's Paradise.
New York: Macmillan, 1938. First American Edition from English sheets. Read More
Price: $150
“Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”
Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements.
Atlanta, Ga: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940; 1941; and 1943. First editions. “Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”. By the mother of William Burroughs, author of Junkie, Queer, The Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys, etc., etc., with help from Coca-Cola. “Boy and Girl Scouts are taught the fundamentals …”. Read More
Price: $225
Hand-colored print of Corallium rubrum cortice et floribus from Herbarium Blackwellianum. Plate 341b.
Nuremburg: 1750-1765. Read More
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Hand-colored print of Corallium rubrum from Herbarium Blackwellianum. Plate 341a.
Nuremburg: 1750-1765. Read More
Price: $200
Catalogue of Fruit & Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines, Roses, & C., cultivated and for sale at the Morris Nurseries, West...
West Chester, Pa: Printed for the Proprietors, 1859. Tenth edition. In the second half of the 19th-century West Chester, Pennsylvania became known for its nurseries. With easy access from a branch line to the Pennsylvania Main Line, nurseries in the area could service much of the east coast and Canada... Read More
Price: $550
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium. A Facsimile Edition.
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition. Read More
Price: $350
![The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c. Volumes I & II. [Spine title:] Downing’s Horticulture. A. J. Downing.](/pictures/thumb/231007.jpg?v=1438724741)
Edwin A. Stevens Copy
The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology...
Albany, New York: Published by Luther Tucker, June 1846-June 1848. Edwin A. Stevens Copy. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership signatures... Read More
Price: $750
From the Great French Advocate of the Tree
Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever les arbres, les...
Paris: H. L Guérin et L. F. Delatour, 1760. First edition. From the Great French Advocate of the Tree. Important work on the cultivation of trees by this prolific 18th-century polymath abd savant (1700-1782), member of the Royal Academy, who published over 100 separate during his prolific lifetime, on a.... Read More
Price: $3,000
The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and ornamental plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and...
London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition. A gardening manual arranged according to the months of the year. The author, Thomas Ellis, was gardener to Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Read More
Price: $1,250
Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy
The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
Bellows Falls, [Vermont]: Printed by Bill Blake & Co, 1820. First edition. Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy. Practical compendium of recipes by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837), stirical poet, inventor, and lawyer. “Between 1809 and 1822 Fessenden divided his residence between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he renewed his interests in... Read More
Price: $1,250
Frühlingsblumen. Zwölf Blätter mit Sinnsprüchen Deutscher Dichter.
Wandsbeck: Chromolgraphie und Verlag Artistische Anstalt Gustav W. Seitz, nd. ca. 1890. Read More
Price: $250
Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten...
[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
Price: $12,500
Cottage Gardening.
London: Printed by Willoiam Clowes and Sons, 1844. Offprinted from the “Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England”. Following the passing of the Allotment system which provided a plot of land for laborers the author wished to provide the basic instructions necessary to grow a successful garden. He recommends... Read More
Price: $125
The Florist’s Manual, or Hints for the Construction of A Gay Flower-Garden...By the Authoress of Botanical Dialogues and Sketches of...
London: Printed [by S. and R. Bentley] for Henry Colburn and Co, 1822. Second Edition, enlarged. Read More
Price: $300
Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: or a Dictionary of all Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing. Containing more particularily...
London: Printed for J. Nicholson, at the Kings-Arms in Little Britain, 1704. First Edition. Variously attributed to Nathan Bailey and John Worlidge. Read More
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The Flower-Garden: containing directions for the cultivation of all garden flowers….
London: Wm. S. Orr, 1840. Second Edition. Read More
Price: $350
The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice throughout the year….
London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More
Price: $400