Cucina e giardinaggio

Thoughts in My Garden

Mortimer Collins; Edmund Yates [ed.]; Mrs. Mortimer Collins [notes] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1880. First edition. Cloth. A charming two-volume work, in which the English author Mortimer Collins reflects on plants, gardening and finding contentment. The first edition of this two-volume work in the publisher's original decorative cl...

Field and Woodland Plants

W. S. Furneaux · 1911 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1911. Cloth. A smart later edition of this brightly illustrated work on field and woodland plants. Later edition. Illustrated with eight colour plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A charming work on the study of field and woo...

Handbook of the British Flora: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to, or Naturalised in, the British Isles. For the Use of Beginners and Amateurs

George Bentham; Sir J. D. Hooker [revised] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, L. Reeve and Co, 1892. Cloth. A smart revised edition of this detailed handbook to British flora, intended for use by beginners and amateurs. The sixth edition of this work. Revised by Sir J. D. Hooker, a former Director of the Royal Gardens.In the publisher's or...

The Spiritual Use of an Orchard or Garden of Fruit Trees

Ralph Austen · 1847 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, William Pamplin, 1847. Leather. A scarce work on gardening and its spirituality by Ralph Austen, illustrated with a frontispiece. A scarce work by Ralph Austen.Originally published in 1653 as part of 'A Treatise on Fruit-Trees', this is the second impression ...

Every Man His Own Gardener: Being a Complete Gardener&Apos;S Calendar

Thomas Maw; John Abercrombie; James Main · 1839 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Longman, Orme & Co. 1839. Cloth. The twenty-fourth edition of this gardener's calendar from horticulturalists Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie. Twenty-fourth edition. With a frontispiece and one plate. A gardener's calendar and general directory containing di...

The Suburban Horticulturalist; or, an Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the Culture and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, & Forcing Garden to Those Who Have Had No Previous Knowledge or Practice in These Departments of Gardening

J. C. Loudon · 1842 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, William Smith, 1842. Cloth. A scarce copy of this illustrated work on the practice of gardening at home, from Scottish botanist John Claudius Loudon. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with numerous engravings on wood. A treatise on the culture of the fruit and kitche...

Wild Flowers Month by Month in Their Natural Haunts

Edward Step · 1905 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Frederick Warne and Co , 1905. First edition. Leather. A profusely illustrated guide to wild flowers seen month by month within various natural habitats. The first editions of this illustrated guide to wild flowers over the course of a year. Complete in two volumes.Bou...

The Passing Show: A Garden Diary by an Amateur Gardener

Captain W. E. Johns · 1937 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, My Garden, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this illustrated garden diary from English pilot and writer Captain W. E. Johns. First edition, first impression. Illustrated throughout. A brilliantly amusing book about gardening from a...

British Wild Flowers

John E. Sowerby; John E. Sowerby · 1894 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Gurney and Jackson, 1894. Cloth. A beautifully and colourfully illustrated examination of British wild flower, including figures of recently discovered flowering plants. Termed a 'Re-Issue', to which is added a supplement containing one hundred and eighty fi...

Profitable Plants; a Description of the Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc.

Thomas Croxen Archer · 0 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, George Routledge & Sons, c1865. Cloth. A brightly illustrated copy of this uncommon work on plants of profit from British botanist Thomas Croxen Archer. Uncommon work. Illustrated with twenty hand-coloured plates. Collated complete. A detailed work on the origins of ve...

Les Plaisirs de la Table

Edouard Nignon; Robert de la Flers · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Paris, Chez L'Auterur, 1930. Paperback. A limited edition of this classic work on French cookery and the pleasures of fine dining, with illustrations. In the original French. French. Limited to two thousand one hundred and five copies of which this is number two thousand ...

Garden Ornament

Gertrude Jekyll; Christopher Hussey · 1927 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.35 | $634.11 | ¥101,259)

London, Country Life, 1927. Cloth. One of the best known guides to garden ornament by the notable garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and architectural historian Christopher Hussey. The second edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original u...

The Garden That I Love

Alfred Austin · 1905 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Cloth. A very smart signed limited edition de luxe of this brightly illustrated copy of this delightful piece on gardening from English Poet Laureate Alfred Austin. Edition de luxe. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies of which this is ...

Receipts and Relishes: Being a Vade Mecum for the Epicure in the British Isles

Bernard Darwin [Intro.] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, The Naldrett Press Ltd, 1950 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce guide to tradition recipes from the British Isles, illustrated with colour maps. The scarce first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrappe...

Good Food: Month by Month Recipes

Ambrose Heath · 1934 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Faber & Faber, 1934 . Cloth. The second impression of Ambrose Heath's popular 1930s cookery book, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The second impression of this work, which was first published in 1932.In the scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price...

Gardens Old & New: The Country House & It&Apos;S Garden Environment

H. Avray Tipping; John Leyland · 1900 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, The Offices of Country Life, 1900-1908 . First edition. Leather. A wonderfully presented set of this illustrated study of country house gardens, complete in three volumes. Complete in three volumes.Bound in quarter crushed morocco with cloth boards, heavily decorated t...

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

Douglas Chambers · 1993 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New Haven & 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 in...

The Housekeeper&Apos;S Oracle

William Kitchiner · 1829 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, Whittaker, Treacher, and Co, 1829. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this concise guide for the young housekeeper, an important guide written by the author of 'The Cook's Oracle&apos. The scarce first edition.A posthumously published work b...

The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, As Also the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard

Philip Miller · 1733 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)

London, C. Rivington, 1733. Leather. The second edition of Philip Miller's important dictionary on gardening, an illustrated exploration of gardening in many different facets. The second edition.ESTC citation number N18273.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding plat...

Cotswold Privies, the Cotswold Country Cookbook

Mollie Harris · 1984 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1984-1986. First edition. Hardback. Two volumes detailing different aspects of the Cotswold area, from cookery to privies, from the view of Mollie Harris. The Cotswold Country Cookbook is the first edition, published in 1986. Cotswold Privies is the si...