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Our Native Fern; or, a History of the British Species and Their Varieties

E. J. Lowe · 1865 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Groombridge and Sons , 1865-67. First edition. Leather. Very scarce first edition of this botanical work dedicated to British ferns by E.J. Lowe, complete in two bright uniform volumes. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy. Complete with two volumes. A hi...

Sweet Scented Flowers and Fragrant Leaves

Donald McDonald; W. Robinson · 1895 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Company , 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition copy of this stunningly illustrated work by Donald McDonald. A scarce first edition copy of this beautifully colour illustrated work from Donald McDonald, who has also written My ...

Our Gardens

Samuel Reynolds Hole · 1899 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1899. Cloth. A second edition of S. R. Hole's beautifully illustrated gardening guidebook. Second edition in original publisher's binding of Samuel Reynolds Hole's illustrated book of British gardening published as part of the Haddon Hal...

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers from Seeds and Roots

Sutton & Sons · 1947 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Reading, Sutton & Sons, 1947. Cloth. An in-depth guide to producing ones own vegetables and flowers at home by Sutton & Sons of Reading, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. First published in 1884, this work had reached nearly two hundred thousand sales before the publication...

Useful and Ornamental Planting

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge · 1832 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1832. Cloth. A fascinating early 19-century work on ornamental planting, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The personal copy of the former Canon of Bristol All Saints Vicarage, Maurice Paget Gillson. A very interesting...

The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge; with a Memoir of Mr. Ellman, Late of Glynde: And an Appendix, Containing a Farmer&Apos;S and a Gardener&Apos;S Calendar; and a Collection of Useful Tables

Various · 1836 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, J. Baxter; Simpkin and Marshall, 1836. Leather. The third, highly extended, edition of this extensive reference work for agriculture and horticulture, illustrated with hand-coloured in-text illustrations. The third edition of this work. 'The Library of Agricultura...

Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They Are Found

Gordon Dunthorne · 1938 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

Washington, Published by the author, 1938. Cloth. A profusely illustrated volume, with numerous vivid and vibrant prints of plant-life from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A profusely illustrated work of plant and floral design. Prints date from between the 18th and e...

Gardening for Amateurs: A Simple, Complete, and Practical Guide for Garden Lovers

H.H. Thomas · 0 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, The Waverley Book Company, Limited, c1926. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated complete four volume set of this helpful collection of tips and tricks for gardening by Henry Higgart Thomas. A complete four volume set.An edition specially prepared for subscribers. In the o...

Cultivated Evergreens

L. H. Bailey · 1923 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.37 | $35.68 | ¥5,698)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1923. Cloth. A gardening manual on the cultivation of coniferous plants. Illustrated with many photographic plates, and illustrations in the text. In a green cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some bumping, sunning, and a few marks. Intern...

The Little English Flora or a Botanical and Popular Account of All Our Common Field Flowers

G.W. Francis · 1842 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1842 . Cloth. A scarce copy of this beautifully illustrated botanical work by horticulturalist and science writer George William Francis. The scarce second edition of the work.In full brown cloth, rebacked with renewed endpapers.With an illustr...

The Art of Garden Design in Italy

H. Inigo Triggs · 1906 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. A monumental study of Italian garden design by English formal garden designer H. Inigo Triggs, copiously illustrated throughout. First edition. Rebacked, with the cloth from the original boards and spine laid down. R...

The Herb-Garden

Frances A. Bardswell · 1911 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated guide to her gardens, with this uncommon first edition being a presentation copy from the author to her son. The first edition of the work. Presentation copy from the author to her son, with ha...

Lilies for the Garden and Greenhouse

D. T. Macfie · 1939 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, W. H. & L. Collingridge, Ltd. 1939. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated horticultural study on lilies from British author of gardening books Daniel Thompson Macfie. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates...

Beeton&Apos;S All About Gardening: A Popular Dictionary of Garden Work

Samuel Orchart Beeton · 1897 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1897. Cloth. A scarce new edition of this fruitful dictionary of garden work, adorned with illustrations throughout the text. New edition, re-written, revised, re-arranged, and extended. With five hundred and fifty in-text images. A popular ...

The Amateur Gardener&Apos;S Pocket Journal, Teaching How to Manage English Gardens, Glass-Houses, Lawns, Shrubberies, Etc.

John Abercrombie; George Glenny, F. H. S. · 1875 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, William Tegg & Co. 1875 . Cloth. A vanishingly scarce copy of this practical Victorian gardening guide, with John Abercrombie"s month-by-month horticultural advice with George Glenny"s treatise on fern culture, Wardian cases, and window gardening. In the publisher&apos...

The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture

George Nicholson [editor] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, L. Upcott Gill, 1884-1887. Cloth. A smart eight volume set of this important nineteenth century illustrated encyclopaedia of horticulture. Complete in eight volumes, including the supplement to the rear of volume VIII. A practical and scientific encyclopaedia of hortic...

Every Man His Own Gardener

Thomas Mawe; John Abercrombie · 1794 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T. Longman, B. Law and Son et al, 1794 . Leather. The fourteenth edition of Mawe and Abercrombie's influential and impressive gardener's calendar, corrected and greatly enlarged. The fourteenth edition of this work, which was first publishedThis copy conclude...

The Theory of Horticulture: Or, an Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening

John Lindley; A. J. Downing · 1852 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, John Wiley, 1852. Cloth. A smart second American edition of this detailed study of horticulture from English botanist John Lindley. Second American edition. Illustrated throughout. A detailed and comprehensive horticultural study, being an attempt to explain the prin...

Trees & Shrubs for English Plantations

Augustus Mongredien · 1870 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Murray, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated study of English gardening from British merchant Augustus Mongredien. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous images throughout the text. A selection and description of the...

Between Trent and Ancholme" in and Around an Old-Fashioned Garden

Anonymous [Elizabeth Fowler] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Brigg, Jackson & Sons, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of an old-fashioned garden, inscribed by the author in presentation to her brother. First edition. With an ink inscription to the front endpaper that reads "J. F. from E. F. Xmas...