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M. L'Abbe Delille [Jacques Delille] · 1801 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

Londres [London], Ph. Le Boussonnier, 1801 . Hardback. With a signed presentation inscription from the author, this is a wonderful example of the scarce expanded edition of Jacques Delille's poetical work on the grandeur of English gardens. With a handwritten inscription ...

The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist&Apos;S Magazine (January-December 1841)

[Joseph Harrison] · 1841 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, [Whittaker and Co.], 1841. First edition. Leather. Bound here together are all twelve monthly issues from Volume IX of Joseph Harrison's beautifully illustrated horticultural magazine, the 'Floricultural Cabinet&apos. First edition.Volume IX of 'The Flor...

The Garden As Considered in Literature by Certain Polite Writers

Walter Howe · 1890 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this collection of writings on the garden, from a selection of well-regarded authors. Knickerbocker Nuggets of The Knickerbocker Press. Very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of litera...

Elizabeth Craig&Apos;S Simple Gardening

Elizabeth Craig · 1936 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Literary Press Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this charming guide to gardening from Scottish journalist and home economist Elizabeth Craig. First edition. Very scarce work. An entirely new book on the economical lines for the modern...

Flora of Herefordshire

William Henry Purchas; Augustin Ley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Hereford, Jakeman and Carver, [1889]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive illustrated work on the flora of Herefordshire. The first edition. The introduction of this work was first published in 1967 under the title 'A Flora of Herefordshire: Part...

Hardy Bulbs for Amateurs

Joseph Jacob · 1924 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Country Life, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce instructional handbook on growing bulbs for beginners by Joseph Jacob, in the original vanishingly scarce dust wrapper and signed by the publisher. The first edition.Inscribed by the publis...

British Floral Decoration

R. Forester Felton · 1910 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London , Adam & Charles Black , 1910. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work on flowers and decoration, with colour plates. An interesting work on floral art, table decoration and the floral decoration of the home. With details on the rose, carnations, orchis ...

Haandbog Den Danske

Jon Lange · 1886 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzels, 1886-88. Leather. A fourth revised edition of this extensive guide to Danish flora. A fourth revised edition copy. This work is a handbook to Danish flora. With details of the different native plants in Denmark. Written by Joh. Lange.In the origin...

An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture and Landscape Gardening

J. C. Loudon · 1850 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London , Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1850. Cloth. A new edition copy of An Encyclopaedia of Gardening. A new edition copy. An extensive encyclopaedia of gardening with a general history of gardening in all countries and suggestions for its future progress in the Bri...

Wild Flowers and British Ferns

Spencer Thomson; Thomas Moore · 1861 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London , George Routledge and Sons , 1861-1867. Leather. Two volumes in one on wild flowers and British ferns, with illustrations. Two volumes bound in one. The first volume being Wild Flowers: How to See and how to Gather them with remarks on the economical and medicinal uses...

The Book of Garden Ornament

Peter Hunt · 1974 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London , J. M. Dent , 1974. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful first edition copy of this indispensable volume on garden ornaments. A wonderful first edition copy of this indispensable reference work for gardeners, landscape architects and garden designers, edited by Peter Hunt...

The Young Lady&Apos;S Book of Botany

1838 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Robert Tyas , 1838. Cloth. A charming pocket sized botanical work adorned with lovely coloured plates. A scarce copy. A scarce copy of this lovely pocket sized botanical guide, containing a popular introduction to the study of plants, including their structure, propert...

Fungoid Pests of Cultivated Plants

M. C. Cooke · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Spottiswoode & Co. LTD. 1906. First edition. Leather. A colourfully illustrated first edition of Cooke's interesting work on pests of plants, complete with lovely colour plates. The first and only edition.An interesting scientific study on fungoid pests and how th...

The Formal Garden in England

Reginald Blomfield; F. Inigo Thomas · 1892 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1892. Cloth. Volume concerning formal gardening in England, the second edition. Second edition of this work, issued in the same year as the first. An account of the formal garden in England, looking at its history, general character, and separation fr...

Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite

John Taverner; Eric Parker · 1928 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes, 1928. Cloth. The second edition of this scarce 17th century natural treatise on natural history, published over three hundred years after the first. A fascinating treatise on fruit, fish, and gardening, and other elements of natural history.Origi...

Practical Amateur Gardening

H. H. Thomas · 1920 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne , Cassell and Company, Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic illustrated guide to gardening by Harry Higgott Thomas, complete with a frontispiece in colour and half-tones throughout. This work examines out-of-door flowers, flo...

The Rose Book, a Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose

Shirley Hibberd · 1864 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1864. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce nineteenth-century work on roses and rose gardening by horticulturist and author Shirley Hibberd. Illustrated throughout. A fascinating mid-eighteenth-century work on roses and rose g...

Adam the Gardener

Cyril Cowell & Morley Adams · 1947 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Not Stated, The Sunday Express by Lane Publications Ltd. 1947. Paperback. A scarce guide to gardening, illustrated with cartoons featuring the loveable character Adam the Gardener. This work describes the work of each week through the year, as well as suggestions for garden pl...

A Flora of Herefordshire

William Henry Purchas; Augustin Ley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Hereford, Jakeman and Carver, 1889. Cloth. A signed copy of William Henry Purchas and Augustin Ley's work on the flora in Herefordshire, illustrated with a folding map. Signed by the author to the verso to the front endpaper, 'With A. Ley's kind regards&apos. Th...

The Flower Grower&Apos;S Guide

John Wright · 1897 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, H. Virtue and Company Ltd. 1897. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated six-volume late 19th-century guide to flower growing by British horticulturist John Wright, with colour plates and further illustrations. Six volumes in the publisher's original cloth.With forty-six fu...