Cucina e giardinaggio

Bien Manger Pour Bien Vivre

Edouard de Pomiane; Henri Babinski · 1926 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.70 | $99.30 | ¥15,869)

Paris, Albin Michel, 1926. Paperback. An interesting French essay on gastronomy and how to eat well to live a good life, by the gastronome Edouard de Pomiane. The sixth thousandth of this work, in the original French.A theoretical essay on gastronomy by the French activist for...

More Good Food

Ambrose Heath · 1933 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€472.40 | $522.98 | ¥83,576)

London, Faber and Faber, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful 1933 cookery work from Ambrose Heath. The first edition, first impression of this work.A follow-up to Heath's popular 1932 work 'Good Food&apos.The work of English journalist a...

Good Potato Dishes

Ambrose Heath · 1935 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.05 | $311.14 | ¥49,722)

London, Faber and Faber, 1935 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Ambrose Heath's wonderful guide to cooking with the potato. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The work of English journalist and ...

British Floral Decoration

R. Forester Felton · 1910 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.68 | $105.92 | ¥16,927)

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 (€143.51 | $158.88 | ¥25,390)

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 (€418.58 | $463.40 | ¥74,055)

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 (€40.66 | $45.02 | ¥7,194)

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 English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management

Anne Cobbett · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.74 | $86.06 | ¥13,753)

London; Dublin; Manchester, A. Cobbett; T. O'Gorman; W. Willis, c1840. Cloth. The second edition of Anne Cobbett's uncommon guide on cookery and successful household management. The second edition of this uncommon work.A brilliant manual on English housekeeping by An...

The Handy Dictionary of Cookery Containing About Five Hundred Valuable Recipes

Mary A. Everard · 1888 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.60 | $64.88 | ¥10,368)

London, James Nisbet & Co. 1888. Cloth. With over 500 recipes arranged in alphabetical order, this recipe book offers an insight into Victorian cuisine The second edition of Mary Everard's illustrated Victorian recipe book. Comprised of over 500 clear, concise recipes, ar...

Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the Public

William Banting · 1868 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€298.98 | $331.00 | ¥52,896)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippencott & Co. 1868. Paperback. The fifth edition of William Banting's popular booklet on dieting and weight loss The fifth edition of William Banting's 'Letter on Corpulence', rebound in paper wraps. In the style of a testimonial, Bant...

The Book of Garden Ornament

Peter Hunt · 1974 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.60 | $64.88 | ¥10,368)

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...

La Ricetta Dei Veri Maccheroni Alla Napoletana Da "Causerie Culinaire

Alexandre Dumas · 2000 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.88 | $39.72 | ¥6,348)

Milan, Chimera Editore, c2000. Brochure/Pamphlet. A charming recipe for authentic Neapolitan macaroni by Alexandre Dumas, in a paperback booklet. A very scarce new edition. Dated from American libraries. Bound in a stapled paperback booklet. With two monochrome illustrations. ...

The Young Lady&Apos;S Book of Botany

1838 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.29 | $231.70 | ¥37,027)

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 (€143.51 | $158.88 | ¥25,390)

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 (€83.72 | $92.68 | ¥14,811)

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 (€233.21 | $258.18 | ¥41,259)

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 (€53.82 | $59.58 | ¥9,521)

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 (€58.60 | $64.88 | ¥10,368)

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 (€35.88 | $39.72 | ¥6,348)

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...

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy

Hannah Glasse · 1755 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€896.95 | $992.99 | ¥158,689)

London, Mrs Ashburn's China-Shop, c1755. Disbound. A scarce edition of this important and immensely popular cookery book, signed by the author to prevent the publication of unauthorised reproductions. Circa 1755, this is likely the fifth edition of Hannah Glasse's im...