Paris: Librarie Agricole De La Maison Rustique, 1858. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 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... More

London: John Murray, 1950. Hard Cover. Seventh Edition. 8vo. 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. Very Good. More

Graficas Armitano, 1987. Hardcover. Limited. 127 pp. Immaculate black boards have bright gilt on spine. Black dust jacket with bright yellow orchid center front. Beautiful color photographs with black & white details of 60 orchids.
1500 printed, text in Spanish. Near Fine / Near Fine. More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Red cloth-covered boards. Previous owner's bookplate and address in ink on front pastedown. Clean within. Very Good. More

New York, NY: American Book Company, 1887. Hard Cover. Revised Edition. Green cloth-covered boards, minor scuffing from shelf wear, marbled foredges. Gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Very Good. More

Albany, NY: New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1915. Hard Cover. First Edition. 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. More

New York, NY: New York Botanical Garden, 1954. Hard Cover. First Edition. Privately bound for previous owner in green cloth covered boards, gold embossed titling to spine with title, volume numbers, years enclosed, and owner's name at foot. Minor soiling to cover boards, bumping to corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Very Good. More

New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1935. Hard Cover. First Edition. Green cloth-covered boards, minor soiling from shelf wear. Minor sunning to spine. Previous owner's bookplate and name in ink on front pastedown. Staining to endpapers from original binders glue. Good. More

Orono, Maine: University of Maine, 1951. Printed Wraps. First Edition. University of Maine Bulletin. Vol LIII, No. 12, April. Includes one colored plate of pink ladyslippers. Inside text is clean. Excellent condition. Library numbers written on front cover in lower left hand corner. Very Good. More

Boston, MA: The Stratford Company, 1930. Hard Cover. First Edition. Black cloth-covered boards, gold titling to spine has slight fading, light wear at head of spine. Scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Very Good. More

London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1880. Full Leather. Third Edition. 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. Occasional light foxing. Four appendices are included, including a "glossary of some of the provincialisms used in the new forest." Very Good. More