Giardinaggio

Dans Les Jardins Et Dans Les Villes

Edmond Pilon · 1909 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Paris, E. Sansot et Cie, 1909. Leather. A handsomely-bound work on homes and gardens from Edmond Pilon. With the original wraps bound in. Bound by M. Marshall. In a morocco binding. Externally, smart, with just a few marks and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pre...

Variae Ac Multiformes Florum Species Appressae Ad Vivum Et Aeneis Tabulis Incisae

N. Robert · 1975 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London , The Scholar Press, 1975. Cloth. A beautiful hand-coloured facsimile reproduction of Nicholas Robert's floral illustrations. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is hand-numbered 2. Signed by the artist, Yvonne Skargon. In a cloth covered binding. Externally, love...

The Gardeners&Apos; Chronicle for 1843; the Gardeners&Apos; Chronicle for 1847.

Various · 1843 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.72 | $1,453.50 | ¥232,133)

London, Published for the Proprietors, 1843-1847. Leather. Two handsome annual volumes of The Gardener's Chronicle. Consisting of each issue from the years 1843 and 1847, with January 28th to December 30th, and January 2nd to December 25th, offered respectively. The Garde...

Handbook of Insects Injurious to Orchard and Bush Fruits with Means of Prevention and Remedy

Eleanor A. Ormerod · 1898 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. 1898 . First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this practical handbook on insects and gardening by a pioneer English entomologist. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative green clo...

The Truth About Herbs

Mrs. C. F. Leyel [Hilda Leyel] · 1943 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Andrew Dakers Limited, 1943. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this book about herbalism, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Intended for the general read...

Corners of Grey Old Gardens

Various · 1922 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Edinburgh and London, T. N. Foulis Limited, 1922. Hardback. A colourfully illustrated work looking at the beauty of gardens and gardening, in colourful boards by Jessie M. King. Bound in colourful boards by Jessie M. King.This charming work offers ten short pieces by various a...

Sowing the Seeds of a Dream

Roy Strong · 1984 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Esher, Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press, 1984. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A limited edition copy of Roy Strong's essay on the English garden and the delights of a packet of seeds, printed and signed by Edward Burrett. No. 20 of 75 limited edition copies designed...

The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening

Royal Horticultural Society; Anthony Huxley; Mark Griffiths; Margot Levy et al. · 1999 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, The Folio Society; Royal Horticultural Society, 1999 . Cloth. A fine four volume edition of the 'New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening', complete in four volumes and beautifully illustrated throughout. Complete in four volumes, and housed in...

Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

Gertrude Jekyll; G. C. T. [preface] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Country Life Ltd. 1936. Cloth. The eighth edition of Gertrude Jekyll's classic work on the usage of different colour schemes in the English flower garden. The eighth edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.Previous owner's ink insc...

The Edwardian Garden

David Ottewill · 1989 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work exploring the Edwardian garden and its features. First edition. Illustrated with three hundred and five images, figures, and photographs, many of whic...

Notes on Tulip Species

W. R. Dykes; E. Katherine Dykes; A. Daniel Hall · 1930 · Rooke Books

£365.00 (€437.57 | $482.30 | ¥77,026)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautiful and vividly illustrated work on tulips and their cultivation, complete with fifty-four colour plates. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A semina...

The Orchids of Burma Including the Andaman Islands

Captain Bartle Grant · 1895 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Rangoon, Hanthawaddy Press, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this detailed work regarding the Orchids of Burma, with the scarce Memorandum form. The first edition of the work, published in Rangoon (now Yangon).Scarce, particularly with the errata and per...

The Best Hardy Perennials for Producing an Abundant Supply of Cut Flowers

F. W. Meyer · 1901 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Liverpool, Blake and Mackenzie, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this charming gardening book with colour plates. A first edition copy of The Best Hardy Perennials For Producing an Abundant Supply of Cut Flowers which are also effective for displays of brigh...

Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-Tops Being the Wild and Commoner Introduced Flowering Plants Round the Hill-Stations of Ootacamund, Kotagiri and Kodaikanal

Philip Furley Fyson · 1915 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

Madras, The Superintendent, Government Press, 1915. First edition. Cloth. Philip Furley Fyson describes and illustrates the flora of the South Indian Hills in this very scarce first edition A first edition of this work on the flora of the South Indian Hills by botanist and edu...

Flowers and Festivals or Directions for the Floral Decoration of Churches

W. A. Barrett · 1873 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Oxford and Cambridge , Rivingtons, 1873. Cloth. A lovely copy of this work on Flowers and Christian festivals, with twenty four lithograph colour plates. A second edition copy of Flowers and Festivals or Directions for the Floral Decoration of Churches by William Alexa...

The Woodlands: Or, a Treatise on the Preparing of Ground for Planting; on the Planting; on the Cultivating; on the Pruning; and on the Cutting Down of Forest Trees and Underwoods; Describing the Usual Growth and Size and the Uses of Each Sort of Tree, the Seed of Each, the Season and Manner of Collecting the Seed, the Manner of Preserving and of Sowing It, and Also the Manner of Managing the Young Plants Until Fit to Plant out; the Trees Being Arranged in Alphabetical Order, and the List of Them

William Cobbett · 1825 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London , William Cobbett , 1825. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this interesting book regarding the planting and cultivating of forest trees and underwoods, written and published by William Cobbett. The first edition. Rebound in half calf with gilt lettering t...

A Book About a Garden and the Gardener

Samuel Reynolds Hole · 1907 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Edward Arnold, 1907. Cloth. A very scarce 10th impression of S. Reynold Hole's book aimed with the desire to enlarge love for a garden. Very scarce tenth impression of Samuel Reynold's A Book About the Garden and the Gardener.This book's chapters contain...

My Summer in a Garden

Charles Dudley Warner · 1871 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London , Sampson Low, Son and Marston , 1871. First edition. Hardback. A charming first edition volume of a gardening guide to take readers through the summer. This is a charming first edition copy of  My Summer in a Garden written by Charles Dudley Warner with an introductio...

Old Garden Roses

Sacheverell Sitwell; Wilfrid Blunt; James Russell · 1955 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, George Rainbird , 1955-7. First edition. Paperback. Two volumes of this limited edition work dedicated to garden roses, with lovely illustrations after Charles Raymond. Limited edition of this charming large paper volume, with chapters on old roses by Sacheverell Sitwe...

Saturday in My Garden the Week-End Gardener

F. Hadfield Farthing · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Grant Richards LTD. 1911-14. First edition. Cloth. Two lovely gardening volumes by F. Hadfield Farthing, the first and second edition of his weekend series complete with illustrations throughout. 'Saturday in My Garden', the second edition, published just one...