Cucina e giardinaggio

Planting and Rural Ornament

William Marshall · 1796 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, G. Nicol, 1796. Leather. The second edition of this two volume set on late 18th century planting and gardening for landed estates, in full calf bindings. The second edition two volume set in a full calf binding, with the binder's label to the front paste downs. Bo...

Mrs. Beeton&Apos;S Family Cookery

Mrs Beeton [Isabella Beeton] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London , Ward, Lock & Co, 1912. Leather. A very bright and smart copy of Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery, with colour plates. A new edition of Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery. Isabella Beeton was an English journalist, editor and writer associated with cookery and househo...

The Present Day Rock Garden Being a Complementary Volume to Farrer&Apos;S "English Rock-Garden

Sampson Clay · 1937 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,594)

London and Edinburgh , T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this wonderful volume on rock gardens, with illustrations throughout. A first edition copy of The Present Day Rock Garden, which is a Complementary Volume to Farrer's "En...

Flowers: Rock Plants

Henry de Montherlant · 1939 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, The Hyperion Press, 1939. Cloth. A bright copy of this beautifully and colourfully illustrated volume of rock plants, enclosed in the original pictorial dust wrapper. A delightful volume on rock plants and flowers, in particular various species of cacti. The first Eng...

Colour Planning of the Garden

George F. Tinley · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London and Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd. 1929. Cloth. An early edition of this beautifully illustrated book of gardening with colour plates. First edition of Colour Planning of the Garden by George F. Tinley in the original publisher's cloth binding. Illustrated wi...

Garden History: The Journal of the Garden History Society

Christopher Thacker [ed.]; Various · 1972 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Not Stated , The Garden History Society, 1972-9. First edition. Paperback. A scarce collection of the first seven consecutive volumes of the Journal of the Garden History Society in the original issues. A group of twenty-three consecutive numbers of the journal of the Garden H...

Modern Eden: Or the Gardener&Apos;S Universal Guide

John Rutter; Daniel Carter · 1769 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, J. Cooke, 1769. Leather. An excellent copy of the very scarce second edition of Rutter and Carter's impressive guide to garden management. The very scarce second edition of this work, very scarce in all editions. First published in 1767.A substantial guide to gard...

On Planting and Rural Ornament

Mr. Marshall [William Marshall] · 1803 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, W. Bulmer and Co, 1803. Leather. The two volume third edition of farmer and land agent William Marshall's guide to planting, first published in 1795. The work was intended as a practical guide for those in possession of large estates on the establishment and maint...

Botany for Matriculation

F. Cavers · 1919 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, University Tutorial Press, 1919 . Cloth. A very scarce early edition of this educational botanical book for university students in the early twentieth century. Very scarce edition, sixth impression, in original publisher's cloth binding of this educational botany ...

Ants, Bees, and Wasps

John Lubbock · 1888 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. 1888 . Cloth. A smart copy of this nineteenth century entomological study. In the original publisher's cloth binding of this study from the late nineteenth century by John Lubbock. Contents include the formation and maintenance of nests,...

A Text-Book of Botany

J. M. Lowson · 1919 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, University Tutorial Press, 1919. Cloth. A very scarce early edition of this botany guidebook which is the tenth impression. Tenth impression, fifth edition, of this early twentieth century study and guidebook to botany by J. M. Lowson, in original publisher's clot...

Gardening for Amateurs: A Simple, Complete, and Practical Guide for Garden Lovers

H. H. Thomas · 1915 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne , Cassell and Company, Limited, 1915. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the second volume of this gardening guide for beginners. The first edition of the second volume of Gardening for Amateurs by Harry Higgott Thomas, in blue clo...

Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners

E. A. Bowles · 1924 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, Martin Hopkinson, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of the first edition of this botanical work concerning crocus and colchicum, with numerous illustrations, and featuring two letters inscribed and signed by the author tipped in. A very scarce first editio...

The Gardener&Apos;S Album

Miles Hadfield [ed.] · 1954 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hulton Press, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. A charming and brightly illustrated first edition collection of poems and essays in celebration of gardening, with original contributions from leading twentieth century horticulturalists, including Vita Sackville-West. The fir...

A History of Gardening in England

Alicia Amherst · 1896 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Bernard Quaritch, 1896. Cloth. A second edition of Alicia Amherst's important gardening history, illustrated throughout. This work was instantly successful, with the second edition contracted within a month of the first; it was the first thorough examination of th...

The Kitchen Garden; or, the Culture in the Open Ground

Eugene Sebastian Delamer · 0 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

London, George Routledge & Sons, c1880. Hardback. A delightful little nineteenth century handbook to growing one's own vegetables and herbs by E. S. Delamer. A most handy work, describing the cultivation of plants required in home cuisine. Describing such plants as potato...

Gardening for the Ignorant

Mrs C.W. Earle; Ethel Case · 1912 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1912. Cloth. A bright copy of this very scarce twentieth-century work on gardening for beginners by Mrs C.W. Earle and Ethel Case. A very interesting early twentieth-century work on gardening for beginners, organised into chapters by months of the yea...

British Vegetable Galls: An Introduction to Their Study

Edward T. Connold · 1901 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. An extensive study of British vegetable galls, the first edition. The first edition of this work by Edward T. Connold. An extensive study of galls for amateur gardeners, looking into the swelling growth of external tissues o...

The Formal Garden in England

Reginald Blomfield; F. Inigo Thomas · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this volume illustrating some formal gardening in England. The first edition of this work, providing an account of the formal garden in England, looking at its history, general character, and separation...

The Orchard Including the Management of Wall and Standard Fruit Trees and the Forcing Pit

Charles McIntosh [Charles M'Intosh] · 1839 · Rooke Books

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

London, Wm S Orr and Co, 1839. First edition. Leather. A scarce, beautifully illustrated, Victorian work on orchard management. This work details the technique of forcing fruit trees as well as their general management. With a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title pa...