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Gardening1649. : Newsletter of the Daffodil Society. 12 issues, 1983-90. £15.001650. : Newsletter of the Northern Ireland Daffodil Group. 28 issues, 1981-1999. £25.005654. Anderson, E.B. and others: The Oxford Book of Garden Flowers. London: Peerage Books 1985. viii+207 pp. illustrated in colour. £6.008664. Anderson, James. editor: The New Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist. London: William Mackenzie n.d. c.1875. 25.5 by 17.5 cms. 988 pp. illustrated with 27 full page and double page chromolithographed plates, and other illustrations. Half leather and cloth boards, six panelled spine with raised bands some gilt tooling and blindstamping, along with original label. Rear pastedown has the ownership plate, R.H. Crawford Gardener 1893, marbled foreedges. In generally very good condition, minor scuffing and wear, internally generally tight, bright clean, apart from a small tear in the frontispiece and some fingering to the title page, the plates are very good, clean, fresh, no spotting, the five double page plates are particularly attractive. A handsome copy, £275.006000. Beazley, Elizabeth: Design and Detail of the Space Between Buildings. London: The Architectural Press 2nd imp. 1962. 230 pp. illustrated good in a worn rather scruffy dustwrapper. Covers paving, trim, surface drainage, walls, fences, gates, parking, bicycle stands, steps and ramps. A classic text for Landscape Architects. Increasingly hard to find £15.008360. Beeton: Beeton's New Gardening Book. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, c.1910 v + 456 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. "A popular exposition of the art and science of gardening, and every thing that pertains to the garden and its culture in all its branches. Thoroughly Revised, Re-written, and Re-arranged, and Greatly Extended. With 350 Illustrations." Chapters on garden design, flowers, vegetables, fruits, pests and a calendar of monthly operations. Fascinating advertisements on pastedowns and free endpapers. Gold-blocked red-card boards, showing some wear. £9.007420. Bowe, Patrick: The Gardens of Ireland. London: Hutchinson, 1986. 189 pp. 29.5 x 27cm. Photography by Michael George. Illustrated accounts of twenty-one of Ireland's greatest gardens. Gold-blocked linen-covered boards, in vg dw. There are occasional very faint stains in outer page margins. £7.508357. Brooks, Bob: The Ulster Garden A month-by-month guide to good gardening practice in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Creagh Media Publications, c2001 64 pp. 27 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated in glorious colour on heavy art paper. Glazed pictorial card covers. Signed by author. £7.004566. Cane, Percy S: Garden Design. London: 1933 The four issues for 1933, 128pp, 29 x 21 cm, in gold-blocked green boards. Wonderfully-evocative photogravure photographs and plans. Gardens featured include Hook End Farm, Reading; Germains, Buckinghamshire; Westwoods, Surrey, and Annesgrove, Co Cork. £25.008364. Carrigdale Nursery: Carrigdale Nursery Newcastle, Co Down: Carrigdale Nursery, c1980? "our third catalogue". 12 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. Largely trees and shrubs. Card covers. £5.005648. Champneys, Harcourt P: Pearson's Encyclopaedia of Roses. London: C. Arthur Pearson 1956. 191 pp. good in a worn dustwrapper. £5.008659. Connolly, Sybil & Dillon, Helen: In an Irish Garden.. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 28 by 23 cms. 160 pp. Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer. paperback in good condition. £7.008366. Daisy Hill Nurseries Ltd.: General Catalogue No. 161. Newry: Daisy Hill Nurseries Ltd. c.1980. ii + 94 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Trees and Shrubs, Climbing Shrubs, Conifers, Roses, Alpine and Rock Plants, Herbaceous Plants, and Plants for Hedging and Screening. Eight pages of colour plates. Textured card covers. Colour print mounted on front cover. £8.008358. Davies, Jennifer: The Victorian Kitchen Garden. London: BBC Books, 1991. 160 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. Profusely illustrated in b&w, and with 36 colour plates. Glazed pictorial card covers. Showing slight wear. £4.505672. Dix, J. F. and Roozen, Walter, editors: Flowers in Colour. London: Collins, 1948 163 pp, 30 x 20 cm. 120 superb coloured plates. Inscribed "Hazel, with love from Rex & Elsie, Christmas 1954". Hazel was Hazel Carruthers, daughter of G. A. Carruthers, the photographer. From the library at Mullartown House, Annalong, Co Down. £0.008718. Faulkner, R. P.: Manures and Fertilizers and their Horticultural Application. London: Sir Issac Pitman 1949. vii+112 pp. illustrated, harfdback, some foxing starting to first and last pages otherwise good. £7.00747. Haw, S.G.: The Lilies of China The Genera Lilium Cardiocrinum Nomocharis and Notholirion with descriptions of the species by Liang Sung-Yun translated from Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1986. 172 pp. 24 x 16 cm. "9 colour photographs 22 line illustrations". Mint, in price-clipped dw which is otherwise very good. £20.008810. Hay, Jim: Natural Pest and Disease Control. London: Century, 1987. 192pp, in pictorial glazed card covers. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Thirty-three illustrations in text. A clearly-written, no-nonsense, practical book. Good condition. £5.507292. Hobhouse, Penelope. editor: Gertrude Jekyll on Gardening. London: The National Trust and William Collins 1983. 336 pp. illustrated,owner's inscription on rear end paper, very good in a price-clipped dustwrapper. apractical guide in the use of Jekyll's ides in the modern garden. £10.005061. Hyams, Edward: Irish Gardens. London: Macdonald, 1967. 160pp. 30 x 27.5 cm. Photographs by William MacQuitty. Lavish production, profusely illustrated, including 15 colour plates. Chapters on the Irish garden and Mount Usher, Annes Grove, Glenveagh, Ilnacullin, Rossdohan, Fota, Ardsallagh and Mount Congreve, Powerscourt, Birr Castle, Rowallane, Mount Stewart, Castlewellan, and Glasnevin. Inscription from William MacQuitty on half title. £25.008365. James Walsh & Sons Ltd.: Walsh's Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetable & Flower Seeds and Horticultural Sundries Portadown: James Walsh & Sons Ltd., 1949 36 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Card covers. Rusted staples. £12.004661. Lennox-Boyd Arabella, and others: Traditional English Gardens. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1987. 20 by 26 cms.160p, illustrated with colour photographs, v.g. in dustwrapper. Published in association with the National Trust. £8.002192. Lighton, Conrad: Cape Floral Kingdom. Cape Town: Juta and Co. 1961 206pp. illustrated. d.w. v.g. The story of South Africa's wild flowers, and the people who found, named and made them famous the world over. £10.007303. Nash, John: English Garden Flowers. London: Duckworth 1948. 28.5 by 22 cms. 30pp. Illustrations of 12 garden flowers by the artist John Nash. Bookplate on ffep. Bottom of boards rubbed otherwise in good condition. £10.005501. Nelson, E. Charles, Walsh, Wendy, F: An Irish Flower Garden Replanted The Histories of Some of our Garden Plants Castlebourke by Eamonn de Burca for Edmund Burke Publisher 2nd ed revised and enlarged 1997 ix+276pp. illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Laminated boards, the ffep is missing otherwise the book is in very good condition. £25.002312. Page, Courtney. ed.: The Rose Annual For 1932 of the National Rose Society. Croydon: 1932. 258pp. illustrated. in very good condition some pencil annotations. £8.002311. Page, Courtney. editor: The Rose Annual For 1934 of the National Rose Society. Croydon: 1934. 314pp. illustrated. in very good condition some ink annotations on fep. £8.002310. Page, Courtney. editor: The Rose Annual For 1935 of the National Rose Society. Croydon: 1935. 310pp. illustrated. in good condition some ink annotations. £8.002309. Page, Courtney. editor: The Rose Annual For 1936 of the National Rose Society. Croydon: 1936. 318pp. illustrated. in very good fresh condition. £8.007389. Rainsford-Hannay, F. Colonel: Dry Stone Walling. London: Faber and Faber 1957. 109 pp. illustrated with photographs. The book is in very good condition but the dustwrapper is worn, rubbed and edge chipped. The author as considered to be the leading authority on stone-dykes their history and construction. This £25.007465. Ramsbottom, J.: A Book of Roses. London: King Penguin Books 1939. 18.5 by 12.5 cms. 30 pp. with 16 colour plates after the originals in Redoute's Roses. Small tear in lower rear spine, no loss, otherwise in good condition. £6.007677. Richardson & Company.: Artificial Fertilisers and Agricultural seeds. Their Uses and the best sources of supply. Hy. Richardson & Compy. Skeldergate Bridge York 1895. 21 by 14 cms. 176 pp. Contents include Superphosphates, Phosphates Undissolved, Nitrogenous and Ammoniacal Manures, Potash and Magnesia Sources of, Specially Prepared Manures, Sundries, Valuation of Manures from Analysis, Table of Manure Analyses, Agricultural Seeds, Terms, Discounts, Railway Carriage and Appendices. A scarce and early catalogue from a famous fertiliser company. Internally good, slightly shook, boards and spine heavily rubbed, spine particularly worn. £45.007454. Robinson, W.: The Wild Garden or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic Plants with a Chapter on the Garden of British Wild Flowers. London: John Murray Fourth Edition 1894. xx+304 pp. illustrations by Alfred Parsons. Light green boards, spine a little faded, corners a little bumped. A very good copy of a gardening classic text. £23.004955. Roper, Lanning: Royal Gardens London: W.H. & L. Collingridge Limited, 1953 96pp, 28.5 x 22 cm. Ten pages of text followed by 90 plates of the gardens at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Sandringham, Holyrood, and Balmoral. Slight art-paper blemish to Frontispiece/title page, ow g in dw. £8.006109. Roper, Lanning: The Gardens in the Royal Park at Windsor. London: The Reprint Society 1961. 29 by 22 cms. 128 pp. illustrated with 32 colour plates and 32 monochrome plates, sketch plan, foreword by David Bowes Lyon, owners bookplate on front rear pastedown, in very good fresh condition, no dustwrapper. Deals with the Savill gardens, the Kurume Punch Bowl, the Valley gardens, rhododendrons, camellias, primulas, the heather garden, etc. £15.008361. Rowan, M, & Co. Ltd.: Rowan's Bee Service Dublin: M. Rowan & Co., Ltd, 1943 16 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrations of hives, sections, separators, comb foundations, spur embedders, escapes, cones, smokers, veils, dresses, gloves, straw skeps, extractors, feeders, mist sprayers, cartons, pots, queens, queen cell nurseries, etc, etc. Front and back pages detached. £10.008811. The Alpine Garden Society: Consolidated Index The Bulletin Volumes 1-61 1930-93. Pershore: The Alpine Garden Society, c1993. 281pp, in blue card covers. 21 x 15 cm. The key to over sixty years of specialised gardening. Small crease to front cover, o/w good condition. £5.508363. The Slieve Donard Nursery Co. Ltd.: Good Garden Plants A Catalogue... Newcastle, Co Down: The Slieve Donard Nursery Co. Ltd.,1971 Autumn 1972 - Spring 1973. 80 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Trees, Shrubs & Climbers, Hedging and Screening Plants, Roses, and Herbaceous Plants. Notes on cultivation, etc. Card covers. £10.008362. The Slieve Donard Nursery Co. Ltd.: Good Garden Plants A Catalogue... Newcastle, Co Down: The Slieve Donard Nursery Co. Ltd.,1970. Autumn 1971 - Spring 1972. 84 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Trees, Shrubs & Climbers, Hedging and Screening Plants, Roses, and Herbaceous Plants. Notes on cultivation, etc. Card covers. £10.008354. Thomas, H. H. editor: Gardening for Amateurs An Illustrated Cultural Guide for Professional and Amateur Gardeners London: The Waverley Book Company Limited, c.1910. Four Volumes. 1128 pp in all. Each volume 26.5 x 19 cm. "Illustrated by Twenty-four Coloured Plates and many hundreds of Photographs and Sketches". Each volume has a gold-blocked rose-and-trellis motif and the title on the spine. There is slight damp staining to some boards, although the heavy, slightly worn, dws are present. The contents are mint, and the plates are suitable for framing. Total net weight 4,500g. £20.003380. Thomas, H.H: The Ideal Garden. London: Cassell and Company 1914. xii+276 pp. illustrated in monochrome and with 16 cold mounted colour plates from paintings, decorative spine and front board. v.g. The ideal garden is for the country house rather than a suburban plot. £23.008404. Thompson, Robert: The Gardener's Assistant: Practical and Scientific. A Guide to the Formation and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden. London: Blackie & Son 1859. The Cultivation of Conservatory, Green-house and stove plants, with a copious calendar of gardening operations. 25 by 17 cms. xv+774 pp. with 12 chromolithographed full page plates of flowers and fruit, and 268 wood engraved illustrations. Half leather and cloth binding. Six panelled spine with raised bands and original label. Professionally repaired. Small tear in page 1, no loss, some fingering, a few pages have small marks where leaves have been pressed. A good tight copy considering its age and use by gardeners. £95.008343. Watz, Birgitta: Seeds & Ashes Windows on My Garden Stockholm: Watz Book Forlag, 2002. 192 pp. 27 x 22.5cm. Author is Consultant Professor of Culinary Arts in the Department of Restaurant and Culinary Arts at Grythyttan, writing about the philosophy of food. "Her sublime insights and knowledge represent an inspiring complement to the skills of professional chefs and waiters and waitresses..." Profusely illustrated in colour with reproductions of the author's drawings, etchings and paintings. Matt-glazed illustrated covers. No dw. Neat inscription on half-title. £27.507620. Wright, John, FRHS: The Fruit Grower's Guide. London, J.S. Virtue & Co. 1892. Vol. 1 and 2 only of three volumes: Vol. 1: xii+344 pp. Vol II: viii+344 pp. With illustrations by Miss May Rivers, and numerous diagrams by Worthington G. Smith and George Shayler. 27 superb chromolithographed coloured plates, tissue guarded, and 2 chromolithographed vignettes in these 2 volumes. Blindstamped, embossed boards in green and black, showing apple tree and grape vine. Gilt title to front board with gilt spine title and crest of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers. a.e.g. A little wear, some light fading to spines, spines restored, bottom right corner of front board Vol II quite faded. Internally tight and bright. The chromolithographs are in lovely condition and often illustrate varieties now all but forgotten. £200.00 |
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