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The Miniature Fruit Garden

Thomas Rivers · 1864 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. Cloth. Resourceful illustrated guide to fruit trees from important horticulturist Thomas Rivers. Twelfth edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding.Featuring one double-page plate and numerous additional in...

Popular Flowers

[Robert Tyas] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Houlston & Stoneman, 1849 . Cloth. Beautifully illustrated guide to popular flowers from British botanist Robert Tyas. Scarce edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.Author not stated, authorship from a copy held by the Royal Horticultural Society Libraries....

Warley Garden in Spring and Summer

Ellen Willmott · 1924 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Wheldon and Wesley, Ltd , 1924. Cloth. A scarce folio capturing the charming views of Warley Garden, designed by prominent horticulturist Ellen Willmott. The second edition of this scarce folio. A striking visual tour through the gardens of Warley Place, Essex, the pr...

Wild Flowers of the Year the Geography of Plants

[Anne Pratt]; Anonymous · 1846 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, The Religious Tract Society, [1846-c.1850] Undated, dated fro. Cloth. London: The Religious Tract Society, [1846-c.1850] Undated, dated from copies held by the Royal Horticultural Society Libraries and Natural History Museum Library. Cloth. Very Good. 6" by 4". None. A...

The Planters of the English Landscape Garden: Botany, Trees, and the Georgics

Douglas Chambers · 1993 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of English landscape gardening, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with one hundred and thirty figures, many of which are ...

Veitch&Apos;S Manual of the Coniferae

Adolphus H. Kent · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, James Veitch & Sons, Ltd. 1900. Cloth. A new and enlarged edition of this manual of the coniferae from publisher and horticulturalist James Veitch. New and enlarged edition. Illustrated with full-page and in-text images throughout. A detailed and comprehensive manual o...

A Manual of Gardening for Bengal and Upper India

Thomas A. C. Firminger · 1874 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Calcutta , Thacker, Spink and Co. 1874. Cloth. An uncommon Indian gardening manual by Thomas A. C. Firminger. Third edition. An uncommon title. In the original cloth binding.This practical guide offers hints on gardening for Bengal and Upper India, including laying out, seeds...

Gleanings from French Gardens: Comprising an Account of Such Features of French Horticulture As Are Most Worth of Adoption in British Gardens

W. Robinson · 1869 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1869. Cloth. A smart second edition of this illustrated horticultural study of French gardens from Irish gardener William Robinson. Second edition. A scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and over ninety in-text images and figures. The...

Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs: Report of the Conference Held by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Greycoat Street Hall: April 26-29, 1938

Various; F. J. Chittenden [Editor] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, The Royal Horticultural Society , 1938 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound, scarce first edition of the RHS"s 1938 conference proceedings, richly illustrated and featuring expert lectures and discussions on ornamental flowering trees and shrubs. Bound in a blu...

The English Rock-Garden

Reginald Farrer · 1925 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London; Edinburgh, T.C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd. 1925. Cloth. The third impression of Reginald Farrer's classic two-volume The English Rock-Garden, a richly illustrated definitive guide to English rock-garden design and plant life. Third impression. Complete in two volumes. Wri...

Planting and Ornamental Gardening; a Practical Treatise

William Marshall · 1785 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, J. Dodsley , 1785 . First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this informative treatise on ornamental gardening, written by 18th-century agricultural author William Marshall. The first edition. Bound in a lovely contemporary full calf binding, with the boards r...

Gardens Old & New: The Country House & Its Garden Environment

Various · 1900 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, The Offices of "Country Life" Ltd. 1900. First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated, first edition of the first volume from this series exploring English country houses, published by Country Life. First edition. Complete in one volume, with two mutually independent vol...

Scottish Gardens: Being a Representative Selection of Different Types, Old and New

Sir Herbert Maxwell · 1911 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Edward Arnold, 1911. Cloth. A smart new edition of this brightly illustrated review of Scottish gardens from Scottish horticulturalist Sir Herbert Maxwell. New edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-one colour plates. Collated complete. A charming e...

English Gardens

H. Avery Tipping · 1925 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Country Life Ltd. 1925. First edition. Cloth. A profusely illustrated guide to English gardens by the garden designer and Country Life magazine editor Henry Avray Tipping. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. This volume is a first edition.Illustrated...

A Third Pot-Pourri

Mrs. C. W. Earle [Theresa Earle] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, John Murray, 1903. Cloth. A scarce copy of Theresa Earle's third and final 'Pot-Pourri' guide, this one largely covering diet and vegetarianism. The second edition of this scarce volume, published in the same year as the first. In the original cloth bin...

A Garden of Herbs & Garden-Craft in the Bible and Other Essays

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde · 1926 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1926-1927. First edition. Cloth. Two smart volumes of garden commentary from British gardener and garden designed Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. Two volumes. Written by Eleanour Sophie Sinclair Rohde, a British gardener, garden designer, and horticul...

Every Man His Own Gardener

Thomas Mawe; John Abercrombie; et al · 1787 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, J. F. and C. Rivington; et al, 1787. Leather. Mawe and Abercrombie's influential and monumental gardeners calendar, an important work that went through many editions. A detailed calendar tracing a year in the life of a gardener; advising the reader on what to sow ...

Flowers of the Field

C. A. Johns; G. S. Boulger · 1925 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, The Sheldon Press, 1925. Cloth. A revised and colourfully illustrated edition of Johns' best-known work, often referred to as "the bible of the amateur botanist". The thirty-fifth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and sixty-three further colour plate...

The Flora of East Riding of Yorkshire Including a Physiographical Sketch

Jas. Fraser Robinson · 1902 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, A. Brown and Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this uncommon botanical study devoted to the East Riding of Yorkshire. The first edition. In the publisher's decorative cloth binding. With a coloured folding map frontispiece and a few in-text illu...

An Essay on the Making of Gardens

Sir George Sitwell, Baronet · 1909 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, John Murray, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of Sir George Sitwell's classic study of old Italian gardens, complete with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, retaining the very scarce publisher's origi...