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The Garden at Chatsworth

The Duchess of Devonshire · 1999 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Frances Lincoln Limited, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated guide to the gardens at Chatsworth house. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, plans, and drawings. A detailed study of the garden ...

Italian Gardens of the Renaissance

J. C. Shepherd, G. A. Jellicoe · 1953 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

8.5" by 5.5, Alec Tiranti , 1953. Cloth. A second edition copy of this illustrated book on Renaissance Italian gardens. A second edition copy. An uncommon second edition of Italian Gardens of the Renaissance. The text is in both French and English exploring the architecture o...

Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers

J. C. Loudon · 1845 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London , Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1845. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners. A first edition copy. Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers is an indispensable guide in ar...

Hebes and Parahebes

Douglas Chalk · 1988 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Christopher Helm, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated botanical work specialising in Hebes and Parahebes. First edition. Illustrated throughout with many in-text drawings, eight colour plates and thirty-four black and white illustrations. ...

The Gamekeeper at Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life

[Richard Jefferies] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London , Smith, Elder & Co. 1880. Cloth. An early edition of this charming volume of natural history, with illustrations. An early edition of this work with the first edition published in 1878. This is a charming collection of rural rambles and commentaries on the fields, mea...

Rock Gardens: How to Plan and Plant Them

A. Edwards · 1929 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1929. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated early edition of this guide to rock gardens and their care. Early edition. Illustrated with eight colour plates and fifty additional photographs and diagrams. Collated complete. A guide to rock gardens ...

Useful and Ornamental Planting

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

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Baldwin and Cradock , 1832. First edition. Cloth. A first edition early 19th century work on ornamental planting. The first edition. Rebound in full cloth. With vignette diagrams throughout. A very interesting early nineteenth-century work on ornamental planting garden...

The Royal Horticultural Society Shorter Dictionary of Gardening

Michael Pollock and Mark Griffiths · 1998 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 1998. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition copy of this comprehensive dictionary of gardening. The first edition, first impression with full number line. In the publisher's full cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper...

Country Calendar

A. G. Street · 1936 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936 . Leather. A brightly bound copy of the illustrated third edition of A. G. Street's charming study of the English countryside. The third edition of A. G. Street's 'Country Calendar', first published in 1935. In a bright hal...

Essays on Husbandry. Essay I. Essay II.

Walter Harte · 1764 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, W. Frederick, 1764 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Walter Harte's illustrated agricultural essays. The first edition of Harte's essays on various aspects of farming and agriculture, a work displaying a broad knowledge of the subject, and divide...

Our Gardens

S. Reynolds Hole · 1907 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1907. Cloth. Fifth edition of this illustrated gardening volume by S. Reynolds Hole. Fifth edition of this work, originally published in 1899. Dedicated to gardening, with chapters on the formation of a garden, rose gardens. water gardens, wild gardens...

Handy Book of the Flower-Garden

David Thomson · 1868 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1868 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this guide to the year round management of the flower garden, illustrated with seven folding plates. The first edition of this delightful guide to the flower garden from David T...

The Flora of Warwickshire

James E. Bagnall · 1891 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Gurney & Jackson, 1891. Leather. A signed copy of this fascinating work on the flora and plants of Warwickshire, containing a large folding map and nicely bound in half morocco. An interesting work on the flora, flowering plants, ferns, mosses, and lichens of Warwicksh...

Choice Stove and Greenhouse Ornamental-Leave Plants

Benjamin Samuel Williams · 1876 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Self-Published , 1876. Cloth. The second edition of this richly illustrated work on ornamental greenhouse plants, published in the late nineteenth century. A fascinating and richly illustrated work on ornamental greenhouse plants, including descriptions of more than on...

The Flora of Cornwall and Supplement, Flora of Cornwall Being an Account of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Found in the County of Cornwall Including the Scilly Isles; the Flora of Kintyre

F. Hamilton Davey; Edgar Thurston; Chambre C. Vigurs; M. H. Cunningham; A. G. Kenneth · 1978 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, EP Publishing Limited, 1978-9. First edition. Cloth. A near fine 2 volume collection of "The Flora of Cornwall and Supplement" and "The Flora of Kintyre". A near fine 2 volume collection comprising "The Flora of Cornwall and Supplement" and "The Flora of Kintyre". Orig...

Botany of to-Day a Popular Account of Recent Notable Discoveries by G.F. Scott Elliot M.A. , B. Sc. , F.R. G.S. , &C. Author of "the Romance of Plant Life, " "the Romance of Early British Life," "a Naturalist in Mid-Africa," &C. &C. With Many Illustrations

George Francis Scott Elliot · 1923 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1923. Leather. A beautifully illustrated third edition of "Botany of To-Day", part of the "Science of To-Day" series. A very smart third edition of George Francis Scott-Elliot"s "Botany of To-Day".  Scott-Elliot was a botanist and academ...

British Ferns and Their Allies an Abridgement of the "Popular History of British Ferns" and Comprising the Ferns, Club-Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails

Thomas Moore · 0 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, George Routledge and Sons , c1885. Cloth. A bright copy of this charming botanical work concerning ferns, adorned with striking colourful plates. Dated from the advertisements. The abridged version of botanist and gardener Thomas Moore's successful work the '...

The Shakespeare Garden

Esther Singleton · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, William Farquhar Payson, 1931. Cloth. A remarkable gardening work looking at the flora used in Shakespeare's works, with a guide on how to produce a Shakespeare garden. This is a gardening work, examining gardening and horticulture during Shakespeare's days...

Gardening for Beginners: A Handbook to the Garden

E. T. Cook · 1920 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Country Life, 1920. Cloth. An in-depth guide to gardening by E. T. Cook, lavishly illustrated throughout including plates in colour. This popular work was hailed as being amongst the most suited guides on gardening for beginners, and covers a broad variety of aspects o...

Wall and Water Gardens

Gertrude Jekyll · 0 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Country Life; George Newnes, c1902. Cloth. The second edition of this work on wall and water gardens by famed garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. The second edition of this work on water and wall gardens in English country homes, looking at simple ways of using some of th...