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The Garden Beautiful

W. Robinson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, John Murray, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. The delightfully illustrated first edition of William Robinson's informative guide to the arrangement of a beautiful garden. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with eight engraved plates. Collated, complete.A charm...

Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs

W. Robinson · 1903 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, John Murray, 1903. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated study of alpines, from influential Irish practical gardener and journalist, William Robinson. The third edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and many vig...

The Rock Garden

Reginald Farrer · 1912 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, T. C. & E. C Jack Ltd, 1912. Hardback. A smart copy of this detailed guide to the rock garden as part of the Present-Day series, from plant collector Reginald John Farrer. Present-Day series. Illustrated with eight colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed guide to ...

Chrysanthemums

Thomas Stevenson; C. Harman Payne; Charles E. Shea · 1912 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, T. C. & E. C Jack Ltd, 1912. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this very scarce botanical work on chrysanthemums, with colour plates. First edition. Very scarce. From the Present-Day Gardening series. Illustrated with eight colour plates. Collated compl...

Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants

A. W. Darnell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)

Middlesex, A. W. Darnell, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition of A. W. Darnell's beautifully illustrated work on hardy and half-hardy plants suitable for the British climate. The first edition, complete in two volumes.Anthony William Darnell original...

The Cottage Gardener or, Amateur Gardener&Apos;S Guide to out-Door Gardening and Spade Cultivation

George W. Johnson · 1848 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, William S. Orr & Co. 1848-1850. Leather. A smart three volume set of George W. Johnson's sweeping and detailed gardening guide, with illustrations. Three volumes. Containing issue numbers one to seventy-eight. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. A weekly periodi...

Gardens Old and New: The Country House & Its Garden Environment, Volume II

John Leyland [ed.] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Country Life, 1905. Cloth. Volume II of a three-volume set on the history of the gardens of country houses, illustrated by Charles Latham. Volume II of a three-volume set, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Ink inscription to the first blank. Ill...

The Making of a Garden

Gertrude Jekyll; Cherry Lewis [editor] · 1984 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated anthology of the writings of Gertrude Jekyll. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous images throughout, many of which are in colou...

Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of Nature, Art, and Artifice

George Plumptre · 1990 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

New York, Doubleday, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this beautifully illustrated work on ornamental gardening. First US edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams, many of which are in full colour. A gorgeously illustrated volume tra...

Mediaeval Gardens, Victorian Gardens and Georgian Gardens

John Harvey, Brent Elliott, David Jacques · 1981 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London , B.T. Batsford , 1981-1986 . First edition. Cloth. Three fascinating volumes on horticultural history, with colour plates and illustrations. Three volumes on the history of gardens. All first edition copies. These three volumes are Mediaeval Gardens (1981) by John Ha...

Fritillaries, a Gardener&Apos;S Introduction to the Genus Fritillaria

Christabel Beck · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Faber and Faber, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Christabel Beck's study of the genus Fritillaria, with four colour plates and forty black and white illustrations Lifelong gardener Christabel Beck's detailed account of Fritillaria, a genus of plants in the lily f...

The Modern Garden

G. C. Taylor · 1937 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Country Life Ltd. 1937. Cloth. The second edition on this volume on gardening by Gardening Editor of Country Life G. C. Taylor. The second edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Country Life is a British weekly magazine, published by Futur...

Familiar Garden Flowers

Shirley Hibberd · 0 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London , Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, c1880. Leather. Garden flowers by popular gardening writer Shirley Hibberd, with colour plates. A copy of the second series of Familiar Garden Flowers by Shirley Hibberd. A delightful work on garden flowers by widely successful and popul...

The Villa Garden Directory, or, Monthly Index of Work to Be Done in Town and Villa Gardens, Shrubberies and Parterres

Walter Nicol · 1809 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Edinburgh, A. Constable and Co, 1809 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Walter Nicol's early nineteenth century guide to the management and maintenance of the villa garden. The very scarce first edition of this guide to the maintenance of the villa...

Fleurs Et Fruits

Eva Mannering · 1955 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Germany, Editions du Chene, 1955. Paperback. A colourful volume of the botanical paintings of Pierre-Joseph Redoute, a lovely work highlighting his popular watercolours. In French.A limited edition work of an unknown limitation - this volume numbered twenty-five.In the origina...

Tropical Planting and Gardening

H.F. Macmillan · 1935 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1935. Cloth. The fourth edition of this comprehensive guide to tropical planting and gardening, replete with numerous illustrations. A fascinating and detailed guide to tropical planting and gardening, including chapters on climate, soils, garden plan...

A Manual of Plant Names

C. Chicheley Plowden · 1972 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1972. Cloth. A lovely third edition of this charming work of reference useful to the gardener. The third edition, corrected of 1972, originally published in 1968. A Complete work of reference for the gardener, botanist, horticulturalist and others...

British Poisonous Plants

Charles Johnson; C Pierpoint Johnson · 1861 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, John Van Voorst , 1861. Cloth. A scarce copy of this guide to British poisonous plants, the second edition complete with thirty-two hand-coloured plates by John E Sowerby . The second edition of this work, scarce in all editions. A short and comprehensive guide to Brit...

A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine on Open Walls

Clement Hoare · 1841 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. Cloth. A detailed and practical work on the cultivation on grape vines on walls, the first work of its type in English, by the vineyard owner Clement Hoare. Half-title is present.The third edition of this work.Thirty-two pages...

A Practical Treatise of Husbandry Wherein Are Contained Many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry Collected During a Series of Years

M Duhamel du Monceau · 1759 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.44 | $634.25 | ¥101,294)

London, J Whiston and B White et al, 1759. Leather. The first English edition of Duhamel du Monceau's treatise on husbandry. Illustrated, with six plates. Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau was a French physician and botanist. He carried out many experiments in plant physiolo...