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Important 18th-century book on gardening View picture(s) 1 BRADLEY, Richard. Nouvelles observations physiques et pratiques sur le jardinage et l'art de planter, avec le calendrier des jardiniers. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de Bradley, enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Paris, Pierre-Aug. Paulus du Mesnil, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Siméon-Prosper Hardy, 1756. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red title labels lettered in gold, red painted edges. Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3 XXXVI, 358, (2): Privilege; (5), X-XVI, 510; (2), 12, 1-430, 433-442 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the cultivation of vegetables and peaches View picture(s) 2 COMBLES, M. De. (Jean?). L'école du jardin potager, contenant la description exacte de toutes les plantes potageres, leur culture, les qualités de terre qui leur conviennent, les situations et les climats qui leur sont propres, leurs propriétés, les différens moyens de les multiplier, le temps de recueillir les graines, leur durée, etc. etc. Quatrième edition, augmentée du Traité de la culture des pêchers du même auteur, et à laquelle on a Lyon, Les freres Perisse, (1794). 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half marbled calf. Some woodcut headpieces depicting agricultural scenes. 390, (2); 415 (1 blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  French  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy, with more than 100 garden drawings & plans View picture(s) 3 FORESTIER, Jean-Claude-Nicolas. Jardins: carnet de plans et de dessins. Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1920. Royal 4to (33 x 26.5 cm). Black morocco presentation binding, gold-tooled, with marbled and gilt endpapers, and with the original publisher's wrappers (including spine), printed in green and black, bound in.  With an engraved garden scene on the front wrapper and more than 100 drawings and plans printed from line blocks, many full-page. [120] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gardens  Horticulture  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second improved and enlarged edition of an encyclopedic manual on horticulture View picture(s) 4 KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beknopte huishoudelyke hovenier.  Inhoudende  eene verhandeling en meernamige lijsten van alle soorten  van ooft-vrugten. Insgelyks van alle boom- en heesteragtige  plantagie-gewassen. Gelyk ook van alle keuken-gewassen,  veld-vrugten, verfstof-gewassen en anderen.- (Tweede  deel. Inhoudende eene verhandeling van alle bloem-gewassen.  Gelyk ook eene maandelyksche aanwyzing der tuin-bezigheden....-  Derde deel. Inhoudende eene verhandeling van alle medicinaale  planten, welke hoofdzaakelyk in de genees- en heelkunde  voorgeschreven en gebruikt worden....) Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, (1760-1762). 3 vols. 8vo. 18th century marbled boards, rebacked. X, 294; (8), 415; (6), 362, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  Horticulture  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive and original book on horticulture View picture(s) 5 KNOOP, Johann Hermann. Beschouwende en werkdadige hovenier-konst, of inleiding tot de waare oeffening der planten. Waarin aangewezen word al 't geen een hovenier en aan andere tuin-oeffenaars dienstig en nodig zyn kan te weeten, om niet alleen met gewenscht voordeel, maar ook met vermaak allerley boom-, heester-, kruid-, en bloem-gewassen te cultiveeren. Insgelyks om allerley in en buitenlandsche bloemen, vrugten en andere gewassen te vervroegen, en buiten de gewone saisoenen te hebben: of by ons byna even als in haare geboorte plaats, te doen groeyen, bloeyen, en hunne vrugten ryp en smakelyk voorttebrengen. Alles afgeleid uit een waare natuurkundige grond, als waarin de cultuure der gewassen alleen gegrondvest is; en door aanmerkingen en ondervindingen van meer als 30 jaaren bevestigt. Dienende verders sowel voor de veldt- als tuin-oeffenaars. Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1753. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, title printed in red and black, and numerous illustrations on gardening, the planting of trees and the building of hot-houses on 16 large folding engraved plates by I. Folkema after the author, including an extra large folding plate with plans and a view of an orangery. (28), 594 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany [Herbals]  Gardens  Horticulture  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Picturesque gardens in France, Germany and England in the 19th century View picture(s) 6 KRAFFT, Jean Charles. Constructions, plans et décorations des jardins de France, d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne. Recueil contenant des plans de jardins connus, extrêmement pittoresques, des projets non moins satisfaisans, des élévations de fabriques de tout genre d'architecture egyptienne, chinoise, arabe, turque, gothique, grecque, romaine et française, des ornemens analogues et des détails essentiels pour l'exécution, avec texte explicatif en trois langues. Première & seconde partie. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Bance Ainé, éditeur, imprimerie de Ducessois, 1831. First part in 12 vols., second part in 12 vols., total 24 vols. Oblong small folio. Original grey printed boards. First part in 12 instalments with in the first instalment an engraved frontispiece and each instalment with 8 engraved plates, in total 96 numbered engraved plates; second part with engraved frontispiece in the first instalment and in total 96 numbered engraved plates of which several on one leaf resulting in 67 actual engraved plates of which several large folding plates. 1-30, 35-56; 70 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pricelists of an international renowned botanist View picture(s) 7 KRELAGE, Ernst Heinirch. Preis-Verzeichniss der besten Tafel-Obst-Sorten, Baeume und Straeucher. Azaleen, Rhododendron, Rosen, Stauden, Gewaechshaus-Pflanzen, u.s.w. Haarlem, 1844. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Haarlem  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on garden architecture View picture(s) 8 LAAR, Gijsbert van. Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden; of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden van dit koningrijk gewijzigd, en met vele nieuwe platte gronden en sieraaden vermeerderd. Amsterdam, Jacobus de Ruyter, (1819). 4to. Modern half calf, gilt spine with red title label lettered in gold. Engraved title, numerous illustrations of garden architecture, garden furniture, and plans of gardens on 190 numbered full-page engraved plates. (4), IV, 120 (=118), VIII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gardens  Horticulture  Illustrated Books  Landscape  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A highly influential work on French 18th century garden and landscape design View picture(s) 9 LABORDE, Alexandre, Comte de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens chateaux, mêlée d'observations sur la vie de la campagne et la composition des jardins.- Description of the modern gardens and ancient castles in France with local observations on rural life and gardening.- Beschreibung der neuen Gärten und alten Schlösser in Frankreich mit Bemerkungen über Landleben und Gartenanlagen. Paris, Delance, 1808 (-1814). Folio. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco with marbled boards, gilt spine. Engraved vignette on title by Baltard, engraved title with view on the gardens of Méréville by Constant Bourgeois, engraved map of Northern France indicating the gardens and chateaux which are described and illustrated, 2 engraved plans of Malmaison and Ermenonville and 130 engraved plates with views of gardens on 91 lvs. and one plate with engraved figures depicting geological figures. (6), 226 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Castles  Engravings  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of Brazilian and other rare exotic plants in the Munich botanic gardens View picture(s) 10 MARTIUS, Karl Friedrich Ph. von. Auswahl merkwürdiger Pflanzen des K. botanischen Gartens zu München in Abbildungen und Beschreibungen, nebst Anleitung rücksichtlich ihrer Cultur - Choix des plantes remarquables du jardin botanique royal de Munic, figurées et décrites avec des observations sur leur culture. Frankfurt on the Main, Paris, Strasbourg and London, S. Schmerber, Treuttel and Wurtz, [1829-1831]. 4to. Original boards. With title-pages in German and French and 16 hand-coloured lithographed plates. [4], 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Botany  Brazil  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A pioneer work on tropical medicine View picture(s) 11 PISO, Willem. Historia medica Brasiliae. Novam editionem curavit et praefatus est Josephus Eques de Vering medicinae doctor, indigena Hungariae, regiae Gallicae honorum legionis eques, et facultatis medicae Vindobonensis sodalis. Vienna, Congregationis Armenorum, 1817. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. 157, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Brazil  Horticulture  Medicine  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rarest of all Redoutés major works View picture(s) 12 REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph. Album de Redouté. Paris, Galerie de Bossange Père, [1824]. Folio. Original publishers boards covered with yellow paper, stipple-engraved floral wreath, lithographed dedication to the Duchesse de Berry and her wood-engraved coat of arms on front cover, set within a lithographed ornamental border. Preserved in a 20th-century green straight-grained morocco box with gold-tooled borders on covers and gilt and decorated spine. With title printed in gold within stipple-engraved floral wreath printed in colour and finished by hand by Charlin after Redouté, 24 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand after Redouté by Couten (1), Langlois (6), Charlin (1), Bessin (2), De Gouy (8), Tassaert (2), Allais (3) and Chaponnier (1). [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Armorial Bindings  Botany  Colour Platebooks  Engravings  French  Gardens  Horticulture  Redouté  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Monograph on monkshood with early lithographed plates View picture(s) 13 REICHENBACH, Heinrich Gottlieb L. Monographia Generis Aconiti iconibus omnium specierum coloratis illustrata Latine et Germanice elaborata. Volumen I [all published]. Leipzig, F.C.G. Vogel, 1820[-1821]. Folio. 20th-century blue cloth. With 18 numbered hand-coloured plates, 6 engraved and 12 lithographed. [4], 1-82, 85-100 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Horticulture  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two major works on horticulture View picture(s) 14 SPEECHLY, William. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of Propagating, Cultivating, and Training that Plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. Together with new hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England. York, Printed for the Author, 1790. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, spine ribbed and gilt. With 2 full-page engraved views, and illustrations and figures of hothouse buildings and heating devices on 3 folding engraved plates. (4), 224 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Gardens  Horticulture  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elzevier edition of a botanical classic, with American plants View picture(s) 15 SPIEGEL, Adriaan van de. Isagoges in rem Herbariam libri duo. Including: (2) VORSTIUS, Adolphus. Catalogus Plantarum Horti Academici Lugduno Batavi. Leyden, (B. & A.) Elzevier, 1633. 2 parts in 1 volume. 24mo in quires of 8 (11.5 x 6 cm). Contemporary vellum. WIth an engraved title-page with an allegorical figure, and a gardener with plant and tools, pharmacological equipment, and a book open to a botanical illustration, and a half-title (= p.223) for the catalogue. 272, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Elzevier  Horticulture  Leyden  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the greatest Dutch garden architect of the 20th century View picture(s) 16 SPRINGER, Leonard A. De tuinkunst. Voorbeelden uit hare verschillende tijdperken, aanvangende met de Renaissance. Ten dienste van geschiedenis en onderwijs bijeenverzameld. Haarlem, Heirs Loosjes, 1897. Large folio. Original boards, lacking  ties. 12 plates with garden designs in the style of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  20th Century  Gardens  Horticulture  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An engineer on horticulture View picture(s) 17 [GUIOL]. Essai sur la composition et l' ornement des jardins ou receuil de plans de jardins de ville et de campagne, de fabriques propres à leur décoration, et de machines pour élever les eaux. Ouvrage faisant suite à l' ''Almanach du bon jardinier''. Paris, Audot, 1818. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf with gilt spine, brown titel label. 44 full- page engraved plates of which 17 folding, depicting garden plans, fountains, garden ornaments such as obelisks and buildings a.o. an orangerie etc. 117, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to cultivate and multiply trees and plants View picture(s) 18 [HORTICULTURE]. Bloemkundig woordenboek, bevattende: eene beschrijving van meer dan 2200 gewassen, (waaronder 170 van de mooiste heiden) zoo boomen, heesters als planten, benevens meer dan 1300 van derzelver verscheidenheden (zonder die der tulpen, hiacinten, anemonen, irissen enz., te rekenen) benevens de wijze van aankweken en vermeerderen; de grond voor ieder hunner geschikt en de middelen om dezelve des winters te bewaren, als mede de kenmerken van iedere klasse en van elk soort volgens het stelsel van Linnaeus, benevens een alphabetische lijst der Hollandsche namen, enz. Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, (1821?; impressum mentions 1819 written in ink). Half calf, spine gilt, with red title-label. L, 521, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Dictionaries  Dutch  Horticulture  Trees  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Over 2000 varieties of hyacinth View picture(s) 19 [SAINT-SIMON, Maximilien Henri, Marquis de]. Des Jacintes, de leur anatomie, reproduction et culture. Amsterdam, 1768. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards. With a large title-vignette and 10 engraved plates. iv, 164, (4), 15 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Devoted to the cultivation of kitchen-gardens View picture(s) 20 [VIVIE, JOHAN DE]. Oeffening en Regte Behandeling Aangaande het Bebouwen der Moes-Tuynen, Onderwijzende de Regte Culture van alle de Moes-Planten Welke tot de Keuken behooren. Uitgegeeven tot een Tweede Vervolg, of Tweede Deel van de Nieuwe en Naauwkeurige Neederlandse Hovenier. Den Tweeden Druk, vermeerderd met een Nieuw Register, van alderhande zoorten van Zaad-bloemen. Leyden, Joh. Arnold Langerak, 1721. 4to. Contemp. wrappers. With engraved vignette on title by F. Bleyswyk. (8), 120 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gardens  Horticulture  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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