Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America/Massachusetts Horticultural Society
New York, New York, U.S.A. Bulfinch Pr, 1992. FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION IN DUST JACKET. F/F.
Gardening and Horticulture
The New Small Garden
London: The Architectural Press, (1956). First edition. 8vo; 128 pp.; illustrated from 130 photographs and plans. Owner's name; else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped red cloth, in a used dust jacket. A how-to book for designing and planting small gardens, based on thirty actual small gardens designed.....
American Greenhouses
Chicago: American Greenhouse Mfg. Corp., N.d. [c. 1927], 1927. First edition. Folio (38 x 30.5 cm); 384 pp.; over 1,000 illustrations from photographs and mock-blueprints. Wear to extremities; front free endpaper trimmed; corners bumped; gilt partly rubbed out; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth with rubbed pictorial.....
Orchids in Retrospect: A Collection of Essays on the Orchidaceae
Cambridge: Harvard, 1948. First Edition. First edition. 8vo; 172 pp.; illustrated. Fading and light wear to spine; else a good copy or better in original wrappers. Biographical sketch and selected essays on orchids by Ames, noted Harvard botanist.
A Country Garden
New York: Macmillan, 1936, 1936. First American edition, from the English sheets. 8vo; 226 pp.; illustrated from engravings by John Farleigh. Some fading to original green cloth; edge worn dust jacket. horticulture gardening.
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horitculture
New York: Macmillan, 1945, 1945. Later printing. Three volumes. 4to; 3839 pp.; illustrated. A bright, clean set in chipped dust jackets, in a used slipcase. Along with "Hortus", Bailey's most enduring work, and still one of the best horticultural references ever published. With a complete list of American horticultural books.....
North American Horticulture: A Reference Guide
Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A. Macmillan Library Reference, 1992. 2ND EDITION REVISED EXPANDED. FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET.
Jardins de Touraine
Tours: Arrault & Cie., (1947). Later printing. 4to; 362 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy in gilt-stamped green cloth. A survey of the gardens in the Touraine province of France. Originally published in 1940. Photographer Jerome Zerbe's copy.
shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (2009). First edition. 4to; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
The Formal Garden in England
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892, 1892. 8vo; pp. xii; 244; sixty-seven illustrations from drawings by F. Inigo Thomas. Owner's name; offsetting to endpapers; light foxing throughout; else a good copy in white, gilt-stamped cloth which is darkened from age. A history of garden design in England. Blomfeld was an architect.....
Prints and Plants of Old Gardens
Richmond: Garrett and Massie, (1932). First edition. Folio; 101 pp.; illustrated from prints for old gardening books and herbals. A good copy lacking the dust jacket.
Gardening in Time: Planning Future Growth and Flowering
New York: Prentice Hall Press, (1990), 1990. First American edition. Oblong. 8vo; 168 pp.; 200 illustrations from photographs, drawings and plans. Fine in dust jacket.
Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners
London: Bodley Head, (1980), 1980. Later printing. 12mo; 64 pp.; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket. A delightful collection of absolutely unscientific instructions for gardening and planting.
My Garden in Spring
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, N.d. (1914). First American edition from the English sheets. 8vo; pp.xx, 306; forty plates, including sixteen in color. Front hinge starting, owner's plate and light foxing, else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth with pictorial paste-down. The first volume of the.....
The English Flower Garden: With Illustrative Notes
London: Macmillan, 1881, 1881. First edition. 8vo; pp. x, 94, (2) publisher's advertisements. Bookplate; mild bumping to corners; slight bubbling, mostly ot rear cover, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Brief essays on topics relevant to English gardening, including topiary, old herbals, bedding-out, the wild garden.....
The Wild Orchids of Britain
London: The Bodley Head, (1950). Limited edition, #409/1,140. 4to; 137 pp.; frontis. and 40 full-page color plates by Gavin Bone. Fading to spine; small spot to front cover; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth.
Garden Art: The Personal Pursuit of Artistic Refinements, Inventive Concepts, Old Follies and New Conceits for the Home Gardener
New York: Walker, (1981), 1981. First edition. 4to; 192 pp.; illustrated from drawings and from photographs by Guy Burgess (but probably not that Guy Burgess). Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
Spanish Gardens and Patios
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. Later printing. 4to; pp. 305, (3) advertisements; illustrated with 175 half-tones, four plates in color; top edge gilt. Bookplate; else a very good copy or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. The first part of the book deals with Andalusian gardens, including those at Alcazar Palace, Seville.....
Modern Gardens British and Foreign:special Winter Number of the Studio, 1926-27
London: The Studio, 1926. First edition. 4to; 166 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Wrappers chipped, contents clean and bright. Survey of contemporary gardens around the world.
Italian Gardens of the Renaissance and Other Studies
London: Smith Elder, 1`914. First edition. 8vo; 292 pp.; illustrated. Front hinge repair; else a good copy in original green cloth.
Gardens of the Heart
. London: Chatto & Windus, (1987), 1987. First edition. 4to; 160 pp.; illustrated from color photographs by Peter Woloszynski. A very good copy in a lightly used dust jacket. The authors visit and photograph the gardens of such British worthies as the late Alan Clark, the late David Hicks, the.....
Botanical, Horticultural and Natural History Books, Drawings and Prints Including Property from the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
New York: Christie's, (1986). First edition. 4to; 133 pp.; illustrated. VG. Prices realized laid-in.
The Book of Flowers: Four Centuries of Flower Illustration
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1973), 1973. First American edition. Folio.; 208 pp.; illustrated, including forty color plates; biblioiography. Spot of soiling to front cover, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Selections from the herbals, floralegiums, floras and horticultural.....
Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles: Native & Acclimated
London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1909, 1909. First American edition. Two volumes; 4to; pp. xxxii, lxxxiv, 107; viii, 261; 86 plates (16 in color) from illustrations by C.F. Newall. T.e.g. Minor wear to extremities; short marginal tears to two leaves not affecting images or.....
Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives
Harvard University Press, 2004. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 4to; 208 pp.; illustrated.