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Gardening16175. Collins, Charles: Greenhouse and Window Plants A Primer for Amateurs. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Second edition. xi + 160 + iv pp. 15 x 10 cm. Edited by J Wright. Thithy-eight illustrations. Black-blocked green boards. No dw. Good condition. £10.0016053. Country Life: Gardens in Edwardian England. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 1985. "a facsimile reprint of the classic work Gardens Old and New The Country House & its Garden Environment". xxiv + 295 pp. 31 x 22 cm. Accounts of 66 gardens as they appeared in Country Life in the ealy 1900s. 450 illustrations. Gold-blocked drab-coloured boards in vg dw. £18.5016192. Jekyll, Gertrude.: Children and Gardens. London: Country Life, 1908. The "Country Life" Library. x + 110 + xiv pp. 23 x 15 cm. One hundred and six illustrations by the author, including line-drawings and plates. Index. Gold-blocked faded green boards. No dw. Previous owner's signature on ffep, and occasional slight foxing, o/w good. £20.0021037. Jupp, Belinda: Heritage Gardens Inventory 1992. Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee Revised Reprint1992. no pagination (96pp) gardens listed by County. This was a major effort to list heritage gardens in these six counties. Softcover in a black metal spiral binding, in very good condition. £20.0020737. Kinston, Brian: Early Irish Gardens. Published by the author 2007. 21 x 15 cm. 56 p. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £12.0012013. Loudon, J. C: Self Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land Stewards, and Farmers.... London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Oct. 1845. in arithmetic and book-keeping, geometry, mensuration and practical trigonometry, mechanics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics, land-surveying, levelling, planning, and mapping, architectural drawing, and isometrical projection and perspective: with examples, showing their application to horticultural and agricultural purposes. With a Memoir of the author. 23 by 14.5 cms. lii+240+32 pp. frontispiece portrait, illustrated with numerous engravings. With a 32 pp catalogue of the publishers latest books. Boards faded and dull, spine relaid, gilt spine title faded, there is an old water stain affecting the lower margin of the tissue guarded frontispiece, one page a little roughly cut otherwise a very tight and good copy of a scarce work. £90.0018003. Malins, Edward and Patrick Bowe: Irish Gardens and Demenses from 1830. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980. 190 pp. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Over 150 Victorian photographs and 14 colour illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked green boards, pictorial endpapers. In very good condition, in a v.g. dustwrapper. £18.0021045. Maxwell, Sir Herbert: Scottish Gardens being A Representative Selection of different Types, Old and New. London: Edward Arnold. 1908 25 x 20 cm. x+252 pp. 32 tissue guarded colour illustrations, gilt blocked light-red boards coloured boards, some light fading patches and minor shelfwear to boards otherwise in very good condition. Lovely colour illustrations. £40.0020704. McGredy, Sam: Roses By McGredy, Autumn 1948- Spring 1949. Portadown: Sam McGredy & Son Ltd Royal Nurseries 1948. 21 x 14.5 cm. A Catalogue from McGredy's Nurseries, long gone. 71 pp. illustrated with five colour prints of roses.Includes an order form. His was a famous nursery and renowned for roses. In very good condition. £15.0017514. Mercer, Robin: Hillmount 75 Years of Growing. Donaghadee: Cottage Publications, 2015. 107 pp. 21 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed boards. Inscribed by the author, o/w in very good condition. £15.0018913. Nelson, E. Charles and Evelyn Deane: 'Glory of Donard' A History of the Slieve Donard Nursery, Newcastle, County Down with a catalogue of cultivars. Belfast: Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee, 1993. 126 pp. 24 x 17 cm. Illustrated. Pictorial card covers. Autographed by authors on the half title page. In very good condition. This was one of the best local nurseries and had a seventy-year history. £20.005501. 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, 1997. Second edition, revised and enlarged. ix+276pp. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Forty-seven illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh, of which 20 are in colour. Pictorial laminated boards. The ffep is missing, otherwise the book is in very good condition. £25.0012300. Paxton: Paxton's Botanical Dictionary comprising the Names, History and Culture of all plants known in Britain with a full explanation of Technical Terms. London: Bradbury Evans & Co. 1868. New Edition including all plants up to the present year. Revised and corrected by Samuel Hereman. viii+623 pp. hardback green boards with some blind stamped and gilt decoration, showing some wear, spine extremities a little worn, rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed. On the front pastedown is the bookplate bearing the crest and name of General Sir George Wolseley. Its motto Homo Homini Lupus, man is a wolf to his fellow man. Wolseley, 1839-1921, was a most distinguished soldier, brother to Sir Garnet Wolseley. He served in India in 1857,and later, Egypt 1882, and 1884-5, Burma, 1887, and 1889-91. Paxton first produced this guide in 1840 when at Chatsworth. £75.0018838. Portadown Gardening Society: Portadown Gardening Society 1967-2017. Portadown: Portadown Gardening Society, 2017. 38 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 37 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Good biographies of gardening personalities. £10.0019244. Reeves-Smyth, Terence: Irish Gardens and Gardening before Cromwell. Cork: Barryscourt Trust, 1999. The Barryscourt Lectures IV. pp. 97-144. 24 x 17 cm. 12 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. A useful survey. £10.0012017. Robinson, W: Gardening Illustrated for Town and Country A Weekly Journal for Amateurs and Gardeners.. London: Gardening Vol II no 52, March 6, 1880 - no 103, Feb. 26, 1881. xv+626 pp. illustrated. A year's issue of this popular Victorian gardening magazine. In publisher's binding with a new replaced spine and black gilt spine title. No frontispiece. In very good condition, great illustrations and nice advertisments. A heavy book extra postage needed. £45.008361. 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. £10.0020929. Sanders, T.W.: Violas and Pansies Amateur Gardening Popular Handbooks. London: W.H.&L Collingridge no date c.1920's (?). 32 pp. illustrated, pictorial card covers, in good condition. £10.0019483. Symes, Michael: The Picturesque and the Later Georgian Garden. Bristol: Redcliffe, 2012. x + 260 pp. 27 x 21 cm. 196 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £12.0020725. Telston Nurseries and Anthony C, Ayton and The Caledonian Nurseries, the Geranium Specialists: Specialists Catalogue of Pelargoniums (Geraniums) and Pelergoniums (Geraniums) and List Eight. Kent: no date 1961, Three pelargonium (geranium ) catalogues from Kent Nurseries. Telston Nurseries 30 pp. Anthony C Ayton, and The Caledonian Nurseries. All have some ticks in pen, against particular varieties, card covers in good condition. £12.0011809. The National Rose Society: The National Rose Society's Handbook on Pruning Roses. London: The National Rose Society new and revised edition (3rd) 1912. 18.5 by 11 cms. 94 pp. illustrated by Miss I.M. Charters and Miss C.M. Beard. Compiled by a committee of the Society. minor wear and darkening to boards otherwise good. £10.0020600. Wallace J. Craig: Gardens in Mid-Antrim. Ballymena 1960. 21.5 x 14 cm. 52 pp. illustrated card covers, in very good condition. Many articles appeared in the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph in 1960. Gardens include, Rathowen, Glebe House, Heather Cottage, The Quary Ballycloughan, Red cottage, Craigdun, Fenaghy, Hillmount House, etc. £12.0021044. Waterfield, Margaret: Flower Grouping in English Scotch & Irish Gardens. Notes and 56 Sketches in colour London: J. Dent & Co. 1907 27 x 20.5 cm. xiii+237 pp. 56 tissue guarded colour illustrations, cream coloured boards, some light fading and shelfwear to boards otherwise in very good condition. Lovely colour illustrations. £40.0019889. Willis, Peter editor: Furor Hortensis Essays on the history of the English Landscape Garden in memory of H. F. Clark. Edinburgh: Elysium Press Limited 1974. 29.5 x 21 cm. 107 pp. 32 plates, frontispiece portrait, 4 figures in the text, gilt blocked textured cloth boards, in good condition. £20.0021050. Young, Fay and Brinsley Burbidge: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Book of The Scottish Garden. Edinburgh: Moubray Houdse Publishing 1989. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. 167 pp. illustrations in colour, gold blocked black boards, owners inscription on the ffep otherwise in good condition, in a good dustwrapper £15.00 |
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