Cucina e giardinaggio

Treasures of Nature - Ferns

STREAMS, JOHN (PHOTOSCREENS); WILLIAM HOUSTON (DESIGNED BY) · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Freedom, California, The Crossing Press. 1987. (ISBN: 0-89594-242-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. unpaginated. Numerous photoscreen fern prints each identified with common and Latin names; accompanied by lines of poetry. The substantial blank space on each page can be ...

Vertical Gardening: Climbing Plants, Hanging Plants, Trellises, Wall Planting, Terraces, Window Boxes

BOISSET, CAROLINE; FAYAL GREENE (AMERICAN CONSULTANT) · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1988, First American Edition. (ISBN: 1-55584-252-6). Cloth, Oblong 4to. 144 pages; 145 color photographs; 20-page color-illustrated plant directory. Inspiration and ideas for sun and shade. One wishes for more property, more walls and fences, p...

Landscape Gardening

CROCKETT, JAMES UNDERWOOD · 1971 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Time-Life Books. 1971. Pictorial Paper Boards, 4to. 160 pages; numerous color illustrations. Urban and suburban: the typical weel-organized, well-illustrated Time-Life book. Small neatly repaired tear to the jacket's front panel. Very Good/Very Good.

Gardening with Herbs, for Flavor and Fragrance

FOX, HELEN MORGENTHAU; LOUISE MANSFIELD (DRAWINGS) · 1970 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

New York, Dover. 1970. (ISBN: 0486-22540-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 334 pages; b&w illustrations; "Cooking with Herbs", including recipes; Bibliography; Index. Unabridged and unaltered republication of the original 1933 Macmillan work. Very Good.

The Opinionated Gardener: Random Offshoots from an Alpine Garden

CHARLESWORTH, GEOFFREY B. WITH DRAWINGS BY LAURA LOUISE FOSTER · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, David R. Godine. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87923-672-8). Cloth, 8vo. 198 pages; numerous b&w drawings. An expert rock gardener and writer, too; with a sense of humor. Fine/Very Good.

Histórico Do Jardim Botânico Do Rio de Janeiro

NIEMEYER DE LAVOR, JOAO CONRADO · 1983 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

1983. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 48 pages; b&w illustrations. Portuguese and English text. Good.

Jardim Dos Beija-Flores / the Hummingbird Garden

FRISCH, JOHAN DALGAS; CHRISTIAN DALGAS FRISCH · 1996 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

São Paulo, Dalgas-Ecoltec Ecologia Técnica e Comérica. 1996, Second Edition. (ISBN: 8585015039). Cloth, 4to. 272 pages; numerous color photographs showing blossoming plants and hummingbirds, most are full page; 50 page essay; suggested landscaping patterns; Indices in Portuges...

The Lotus Book of Water Gardening

HERITAGE, BILL · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

London, Hamlyn. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0600370267). Cloth, 4to. 80 pages; b&w and color illustrations. Very Good/Very Good.

The Audubon Society Book of Wildflowers

LINE, LES; WALTER HENRICKS HODGE · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810906716). Cloth, Thick 4to. 260 pages; 181 color photographs, many full-page, or double-page. Light wear to the jacket edges. Very Good/Very Good.

The Amateur's Flower Garden: A Handy Guide to the Formation and Management of the Flower Garden and the Cultivation of Garden Flowers

HIBBERD, SHIRLEY · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Portland, Oregon, Timber Press. 1986. (ISBN: 0-88192-060-6). Cloth, 12mo. 284 pages; color frontis.; color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. One of the great gardening writers of the nineteenth-century. A facsimile of this title first published in London in 1871. Fine/Fine.

Penelope Hobhouse's Gardening Through the Ages: An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles - from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day

HOBHOUSE, PENELOPE · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1992, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0-671-72887-3). Cloth, Square 4to. 336 pages; numerous illustrations, most in color. The author: "Virtually unequalled in the depth and range of her garden writing."- publisher. Repaired razor-cut to the jacket's fron...

An Axe, a Spade & Ten Acres: The Story of a Garden and Nature Reserve

COURTAULD, GEORGE · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux. 1985, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0-374-51871-8). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 213 pages; illustrations and maps by David Heal. Reminiscences on the transformation of ten acres in southeastern England by the author, an inexperienced gardener...

Daffodils for American Gardens

HEATH, BRENT AND BECKY · 1995 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Washington, D.C. Elliott & Clark. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 1-880216-33-7). Decorated paper boards, 4to. 144 pages; illustrated throughout in color. The Heath's, owners of the Daffodil Mart, explain for North American gardeners "everything they need to know about successfull...

Variations on a Garden

FOX, ROBIN LANE · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, David R. Godine. 1987, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0-87923-657-4). Cloth, 8vo. 182 pages; color and black and white plates. An English garden writer, Lane Fox directly addresses North American gardens, too. Organized seasonally. Fine/Very Good.

Japanese Flower Arrangement (Ike-Bana) - Applied to Western Needs

AVERILL, MARY (AKA KWASHINSAI KIYOKUMEI) · 1933 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company. 1933. quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 218 pages; 88 illustrations (black and white drawings); frontispiece photograph; floral-decorated boards. Clean and tight, nearly unblemished within; paper boards darkened and titles on spine rubbed of...

Gardens of the Heart

CHIVERS, SUSAN AND SUZANNE WOLOSZYNSKA; PENELOPE HOBHOUSE (FOREWORD) · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701132086). Cloth, 4to. Ill.: Photographs by Peter Woloszynski. 160 pages; color photographs reproduced throughout. "24 outstanding gardens" are described, including those of John Gielgud, Josceline Dimbleby, Sir Nigel Broa...

Ornamental English Gardens

LLEWELLYN, RODDY · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, Rizzoli. 1990, 1st American Edition. (ISBN: 0847811581). Cloth, 4to. 208 pages. The information is comprehensive and beautifully presented. Loaded with color and black-and -white photos and drawings. Fine/Very Good.

A stream in your garden: how the amateur may install running water in rock gardens and the construction of pools.

BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) · 1948 · Aucott & Thomas

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,742)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, minor foxing to endpapers, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is tanned, rubbed at the edges and has small areas of loss at the the spine ends. 104 pages, illustrations in ...

The Wild Garden: Everything You Need to Create a Garden

Huntington, Lucy · 2002 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Cassell, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. 4to paperback (238 x 183mm). Pp 112 illustrated in full colour throughout. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening (4 Volumes)

Chittenden, Fred J. (Ed) · 1951 · The Glass Key

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. First impressions. 4to (282 x 200mm). Green buckram boards stamped in gilt on the spines. All volumes with line illustrations throughout. Vol I pp xvi + 512. Vol II ppviii + 513-1088. Vol III pp viii + 1089-1712. Vol...