Cucina e giardinaggio

Cooking with le Creuset

Elizabeth David · 1969 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

Watford, Cresta Press Ltd. 1969. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce edition of this promotional 1960s pamphlet for Le Creuset, with an additional promotional pamphlet loosely inserted. In the publisher's original paper wraps. First edition of this 16 page pro...

Country Calendar

A. G. Street · 1936 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

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 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

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 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

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 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

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 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

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 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

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 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

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 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

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 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

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 '...

Simple Hints on Choice of Food with Tested and Economical Recipes

M. C. Angwin · 1894 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Sheffield, Parker Bros, 1894. Cloth. A scarce collection of recipes by M. C. Angwin; an early edition. Containing such recipes as scalloped oysters, scrap bread pudding, potato surprise, fried ox kidney, baked crab, fig pudding, soda pudding and potato cheesecake, to name a fe...

The Shakespeare Garden

Esther Singleton · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

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 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

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 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

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...

The English Garden

Ralph Dutton · 1945 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, B. T. Batsford , 1945. Cloth. A bright second edition of this beautifully illustrated volume concerning the English garden. With the unclipped dust wrapper. A study of the English garden by Ralph Dutton. The second revised edition. Looking at the evolution of gardening...

The Cult of the Chafing Dish

Frank Schloesser · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Gay and Bird, 1905. Cloth. A decoratively bound general cookery book by Frank Schloesser, illustrated with decorative headpieces. Containing chapters on soups, flesh and fowl, eggs and savouries, sweets and oddments, and sauces, amongst other things.The second edition ...

The Flora of Bristol, Being an Account of All the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Their Allies

James Walter White · 1912 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, John Wright and Sons, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work on flora in Bristol, written by James Walter Wright. Containing three plates and a folding map, collated and complete. A comprehensive and fascinating work of local Bristolian topograp...

Flowering Tropical Climbers

Geoffrey Herklots · 1976 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Folkestone, Dawson Science History Publications, 1976. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brightly illustrated study of flowering climbing plants, in the publisher's original slip case. The work of Dr Geoffrey Herklots, a British botanist and ornithologist, p...

L&Apos;Economie Culinaire

Cauderlier · 1888 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Gand [Ghent], Librarie Generale De Ad. Hoste, 1888. Cloth. A very scarce signed French language cookery book, with illustrations. The very scarce seventh edition of this French language culinary work, very scarce in all editions. With twenty two illustrations, and one folding ...

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy; Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Ever Yet Published

Hannah Glasse · 1748 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.51 | $1,453.17 | ¥232,053)

London, Printed for the Author, c1748. Hardback. The scarce third edition of this important and immensely popular cookery book by Hannah Glasse. The third edition of this work by Hannah Glasse, dated from ESTC 1748 identified from its unique pagination, only matching that of t...