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Allmendingen, Switzerland: Published by the author, 2015. NEW. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 303, black cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY. A heavy book - extra postage will probably be necessary. ["This is neither a book on how humans grow orchids nor a treatise of how they classsify plants, but an extraordinary look at the bond that unites men - botanists, gardeners, plant hunters, explorers - to the names of orchids and the histories behind their discovery and scientific apprehension. The work is a great step into the realm of history, and orchids are the perfect excuse to expose the efforts, the courage and bravery, the ambition and jealousies, and the indomitable will of those men in the flesh who have made it possible to discover and name the amazing diversity of plants. Each of the 41 chapters that compose the volume tell the story of an orchid (or a few orchids) and a man, beginning with Acineta beyrodtiana and Otto Beyrodt, going…
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Allmendingen: Published by the author, 2010. Well illustrated, large thick 8vo, pp 495, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [This first edition documents 65 species of Stanhopea and 2 of Embreea plus hybrids of these fantastic orchids from South and Central America. The hard-cover volume includes extensive taxonomic references and is 496 pages in length. There are 865 photographs and botanical illustrations, most of which are in color. This is an extremely short print run- just like the ephemeral Stanhopea flower.]. [Very heavy - book will weigh over 3 kilos when packed. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE NECESSARY]. Cloth. New/New.
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Of Men and Orchids
by Jenny, Rudolf
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Sichuan Rhododendron of China
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Beijing: Science Press, 1986. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp viii, 346, lower corners bumped throughout, otherwise clean internally, green cloth with similar bruising, the dustwrapper is very slightly worn. A duplicate from the RHS Lindley Library with their label and stamp on the front endpapers, a tiny stamp on the title page and on the edges. Very scarce. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good.
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Tour in England, Ireland and France in the Years 1828 & 1829; with Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters in a Series of Letters, by a German Prince. Volumes I & II
by Von Puckler-Muskau, Hermann Furst
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London: Effingham Wilson, 1832. Two volumes, small octavo, pp xxii, 358; 304, with both half-titles, slight age-toning and foxing but otherwise sound throughout, original (?) brown boards, slightly marked and worn, neatly re-backed with bew spines and paper labels. [This copy is from the Circulating Library, English College, Lisbon, with their small blind-stamp on the title pages, and a label and number on the front endpapers.]. [As a landscape gardener, Puckler-Muskau is considered of European importance. As a writer of books of travel he holds a high position, his powers of observation being keen and his style lucid, animated and witty.]. First British edition. Boards. Very Good.
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Genera Orchidacearum. Volume 2 - Orchidoideae (Part one)
by Pridgeon, Alec M.; Cribb, Phillip J.; Chase, Mark W. and Rasmussen, Finn
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Oxford University Press, 2001. Illustrated with line drawings and distribution maps throughout and 24 plates of colour photographs, quarto, pp xx, 416, very clean internally, black cloth, two corners with a very minor bruise, the dustwrapper has only very slight signs of use, with a very faint crease on the upper cover. [Orchidaceae are the largest monocot family and likely the largest plant family in terms of number of species (ca. 20,000), but for a variety of reasons it remains one of the least understood: lack of a fossil record, relative scarcity of active research until recent years, size and geographical distribution of the family, and the largely tropical distribution of most, which hinders access. The early classifications and generic circumscriptions of Lindley (1830-1840), Bentham and Hooker (1883) and Schlechter (1927) relied mainly on morphological characters, especially floral features. The problem with such reliance on floral features at higher levels of classification is that floral…
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The Botanist's Companion, or an introduction to the knowledge of practical botany, and the uses of plants : either growing wild in Great Britain. Or cultivated for the purposes of agriculture, medicine, rural economy, or the arts (Two Volumes)
by Salisbury, William
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Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816. Two volumes. Illustrated with a folding plan in the first volume, 12mo, (measures 180mm x 108mm], the first volume is partly unpaginated, the second volume is (4), 211, (i), slight age-toning and the occasional blemish, the frontispiece is awkwardly folded and along with the title page a bit browned, but otherwise clean and sound internally, half calf and boards, rubbed, lacking most of the spine labels, with the tiny armorial bookplate of William Booth Grey - the son of George Harry Grey (1737, MP for Staffordshire in 1761 and succeeded as the 5th Earl of Stamford 30 May 1768). He is considered to be the artist of two plant collages, in the style of Mary Delany, acquired by the British Museum in 2008. RARE. [William Salisbury, botanical nurseryman, has been erroneously described as a brother of Richard Anthony Salisbury. In the preface he states that from 1791 he was employed by the Board of Agriculture in conducting…
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Of Men and Orchids
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Allmendingen, Switzerland: Published by the author, 2015. NEW. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 303, black cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY. A heavy book - extra postage will probably be necessary. ["This is neither a book on how humans grow orchids nor a treatise of how they classsify plants, but an extraordinary look at the bond that unites men - botanists, gardeners, plant hunters, explorers - to the names of orchids and the histories behind their discovery and scientific apprehension. The work is a great step into the realm of history, and orchids are the perfect excuse to expose the efforts, the courage and bravery, the ambition and jealousies, and the indomitable will of those men in the flesh who have made it possible to discover and name the amazing diversity of plants. Each of the 41 chapters that compose the volume tell the story of an orchid (or a few orchids) and a man, beginning with Acineta beyrodtiana and Otto Beyrodt, going…
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Sichuan Rhododendron of China
by Fang Wenpei (editor)
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Beijing: Science Press, 1986. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp viii, 346, lower corners bumped throughout, otherwise clean internally, green cloth with similar bruising, the dustwrapper is very slightly worn. A duplicate from the RHS Lindley Library with their label and stamp on the front endpapers, a tiny stamp on the title page and on the edges. Very scarce. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good.
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Tour in England, Ireland and France in the Years 1828 & 1829; with Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters in a Series of Letters, by a German Prince. Volumes I & II
by Von Puckler-Muskau, Hermann Furst
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London: Effingham Wilson, 1832. Two volumes, small octavo, pp xxii, 358; 304, with both half-titles, slight age-toning and foxing but otherwise sound throughout, original (?) brown boards, slightly marked and worn, neatly re-backed with bew spines and paper labels. [This copy is from the Circulating Library, English College, Lisbon, with their small blind-stamp on the title pages, and a label and number on the front endpapers.]. [As a landscape gardener, Puckler-Muskau is considered of European importance. As a writer of books of travel he holds a high position, his powers of observation being keen and his style lucid, animated and witty.]. First British edition. Boards. Very Good.
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Genera Orchidacearum. Volume 2 - Orchidoideae (Part one)
by Pridgeon, Alec M.; Cribb, Phillip J.; Chase, Mark W. and Rasmussen, Finn
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Oxford University Press, 2001. Illustrated with line drawings and distribution maps throughout and 24 plates of colour photographs, quarto, pp xx, 416, very clean internally, black cloth, two corners with a very minor bruise, the dustwrapper has only very slight signs of use, with a very faint crease on the upper cover. [Orchidaceae are the largest monocot family and likely the largest plant family in terms of number of species (ca. 20,000), but for a variety of reasons it remains one of the least understood: lack of a fossil record, relative scarcity of active research until recent years, size and geographical distribution of the family, and the largely tropical distribution of most, which hinders access. The early classifications and generic circumscriptions of Lindley (1830-1840), Bentham and Hooker (1883) and Schlechter (1927) relied mainly on morphological characters, especially floral features. The problem with such reliance on floral features at higher levels of classification is that floral…
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The Botanist's Companion, or an introduction to the knowledge of practical botany, and the uses of plants : either growing wild in Great Britain. Or cultivated for the purposes of agriculture, medicine, rural economy, or the arts (Two Volumes)
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Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816. Two volumes. Illustrated with a folding plan in the first volume, 12mo, (measures 180mm x 108mm], the first volume is partly unpaginated, the second volume is (4), 211, (i), slight age-toning and the occasional blemish, the frontispiece is awkwardly folded and along with the title page a bit browned, but otherwise clean and sound internally, half calf and boards, rubbed, lacking most of the spine labels, with the tiny armorial bookplate of William Booth Grey - the son of George Harry Grey (1737, MP for Staffordshire in 1761 and succeeded as the 5th Earl of Stamford 30 May 1768). He is considered to be the artist of two plant collages, in the style of Mary Delany, acquired by the British Museum in 2008. RARE. [William Salisbury, botanical nurseryman, has been erroneously described as a brother of Richard Anthony Salisbury. In the preface he states that from 1791 he was employed by the Board of Agriculture in conducting…
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Notes from the Garden: Creating a Pacific Northwest Sanctuary
by Wilde, Madeleine
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Chatwin Books, 2021. First Edition. Trade Paperback. New. New! 'I know from my own experience that an evening spent tending my garden, after another incomprehensible day, brings a strength and calmness that no other activity can match. Is it the qualities associated with gardening, such as nurturing and the hard work of hands and heart, that are deficient in our culture? Much good writing has been done about the garden as a special place.' Madeleine Wilde's woodland garden on the south slope of Seattle's Queen Anne Hill was more than a "special place." It was her Sanctuary, her prism through which she explored the world and accomplished "much good writing." For two decades, starting in the early 1990s, Madeleine's "Notes from the Garden" delighted readers of the Queen Anne & Magnolia News in Seattle. Here, in luminous prose, is the best of her work from those years, ranging from hands-on advice for gardeners and would-be gardeners to poetically charged, often wry, insights into life in the tradition…
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Villa Gardens: How to Plan and How to Plant them
by W. S. Rogers
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Proserpina, Ariadne Florentina, The Opening of the Crystal Palace
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Jane Austen and the English Landscape
by Batey, Mavis
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London: Barn Elms, 1996. Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Landscape historian Batey explores real and fictional settings of Austen's novels. In each chapter she uses a different Austen novel to discuss the style of gardens and landscapes during the early 19th century and Regency England. A continuing theme is the tension between Georgian propriety and the challenging Romantic ideals as they played out in the English landscape. Jane Austen was deeply inspired by the landscape and rural comforts of southern England. Her family's final move to Chawton, in the depths of the Hampshire countryside and so near the Steventon rectory of her childhood, gave her great satisfaction and led to her most creative period. This comprehensive work provides a guide to the ideas and subtleties behind the real and fictional settings of Jane Austen's novels, with…
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The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon
by Moberly, C
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The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon (2014 reprint, White Rabbit Press) By C. Moberly. Used. Very Good Condition. Paperback. By C. Moberly, L. Jourdain, and Tony Walker. MARIE ANTOINETTE. TIMESLIP, PARANORMAL. Summary: On 10 August, 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antionette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back were no longer there. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Previously out of print, this is a new edition with additional timeslip type experiences at Versailles. A hard to find item.
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The Carrot Seed
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Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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Lime green cloth folio (31 x 25mm) with a paste-down floral watercolor image on the cover. The slightest sign of a dampstain exists under that image, floral endpapers inside. Text in ITALIAN with many full page watercolors. The chapters headings are months of the year. This is a collection of articles written by Vita between 1947 and 1961 for the Observer.
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The Pelargonium Family - the species of Pelargonium, Monsonia and Sarcocaulon
by Webb, William J
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London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 104, edges and margins a bit browned, otherwise very sound, in a dustwrapper which is very slightly worn and browned and which has a crease on the spine. [Quite possibly from the home of a smoker, but no aroma. [Originally published at £19.95, but now becoming increasingly scarce].. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair.
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A History of Garden Art. (Volume 2 only)
by Gothein, Marie Luise
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London: Dent & Sons, 1928. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Illustrated, quarto, pp xvi, 486, t.e.g., lower corner of upper cover slightly stained, otherwise a good copy in the original decorated blue cloth, in a rather poor dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor.
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