Native Cookery and Edible Wild Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador
Rural Extension Division, Dept. of Rural Development, 1980s (?). Paperback. Wraps, 87 pp, index, illustrated, light soil and wear.
Horticulture & Gardening
Native Cookery and Edible Wild Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador
Dept. of Rural, Agric. & Nor. Dev. 1980s (?). Paperback. Wraps, 96 pp, index, illustrated, light soil and wear. Appears to be the second edition (an earlier edition was only 87 pp).
Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi: Including the Lichens by P.W. James and D.L. Hawksworth
Kew, Surrey: Commonwealth Mycological Institute, 1978. Sixth edition. Hardcover. Sixth edition, 1978, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 663pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with edgewear to boards, gently wave to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild shelfwear...
Floristic Characteristics and Diversity Of East Asian Plants
New York: Springer, 1998. Paperback. 1998, Edition not stated. Softcover, in Very Good+ condition, with light shelf wear.
Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, I
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1977, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 310pp., illustrated in b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG with edgewear that includes some small tears and creases, looking handsome in protective.....
On Gardens: Two Essays; The Astolat Oakleaf Series
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co. First printing. Hardcover. Circa 1903. Cloth-backed boards with paper onlay on the front cover, 23 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, light soiling or age-toning to the pages and page-edges, a bit of rubbing and wear to the edges of the covers of.....
Fritz Bahr's Commercial Floriculture: A Practical Manual for the Retail Grower
New York: The A. T. De La Mare Company, Inc., 1924. Third edition. Hardcover. Third Revised Edition. c.1924. Hardcover. Green cloth. 8vo. 615pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, rubbing at edges and front hinge, light soiling to boards, some soiling / foxing to edges of text block, light age toning.....
Sculpting With the Environment A Natural Dialogue (Landscape Architecture)
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. First Printing. c.1995. Hardcover. 4to. 251pp. Very Good+ in Very Good (minus) dustjacket. Light rubbing to board edges and spine-ends. Rubbing to dustjacket, light edgewear, wear at spine-ends, 3-inch tear along foot of spine.
Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 1980. First paperback edition. Paperback, 8vo. 702pp. Very good. Spine creased, light penciling to contents, else unmarked.
Japanese Gardens: A Catalogue of an Exhibition from Japan
Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 1957. First printing. Paperback. First printing, 1957, paperback (taped spine), small quarto, 30pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with ink and price written on bottom of front panel, light edge wear, faint crease to rear top corner, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.....
Irrigation in Egypt
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1889. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, 1889. 4to, hardcover, 113 pp. No dust jacket. Illustrated with 22 plates in color and b & w, most fold-out. Text in English. Book is Good, text is unmarked. Pages are lightly age-toned and have mild spots.....
Neue Garten/New Gardens
Zurich: Girsberger, 1955. Hardcover. Hardcover with beige cloth boards, 1955, oblong quarto, 232pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, front flyleaf creased vertically at foredge, scuff to top of contents page and copyright page, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Text in.....
The Biology of Nectaries
New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 1983. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 259pp. illustrated. Very good in very good dust jacket. Small perforation, edge wear to dust jacket. Edges toned, plate and stamps from Royal Botanic Gardens on pastedowns, ownership signature on flyleaf. Internally unmarked.....
Tree Ancestors, A Glimpse Into the Past
Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 1923. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dark red ruled cloth. 270pp. frontis, illustrated. Very good. Rubbing to boards, slight basementy odor. Internally unmarked.
Understanding Flowers and Flowering: An Intergrated Approach
Oxford University Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.2007. Hardcover. 4to. 227pp. Fine.
Fruit: An Illustrated History
London: Scriptum Editions, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 2002, hardcover with beige cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 335pp., heavily illustrated in color. Book near fine with mild bumps to spine foot and bottom edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with same mild bump.....
The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity
Lafargeville, NY: Henry Tripp, Inc., 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Facimile reprint of the 1916 edition. Hardcover. c.1973. Light blue cloth, gilt titles. 4to. 143pp. (text) + 40 plates. Very Good+. Moderate soiling to cloth, mild brown spotting to edges of text block.
Le Calendrier des Jardiniers, qui enseigne ce qu'il faut faire dans le potager, dans les pépinières, dans les serres, & dans les jardins de fleurs toute l'année
Paris: Piget et Durand, 1743. Hardcover. Published 1743, small 8vo, contemporary brown calf gilt, (8) 182 pp, 5 folding plates at rear. Very good copy with minimal wear, lightest wear to outer edges of the plates, but a bright tightly bound copy of Bradley's Gardener's Calendar translated into French.
The Cactaceae - Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family (Volume II)
Los Angeles: The Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1935. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint. Hardcover. c.1935. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. 4to. 241pp. Illus. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, rubbing to edges, light soil.
The Cactaceae - Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family (Volume IV)
Los Angeles: The Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1937. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint. Hardcover. c.1937. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. 4to. 318pp. Illus. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, rubbing to edges, light soil, mild staining to boards.
An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions, from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102D Meridian, Volumes I, II, and III (Three volume complete set)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896, 1897, 1898. Hardcover. Three volume complete set, hardcovers with green cloth boards, 1896, 1897, 1898, large octavos, 612pp., 643pp., and 588pp., illustrated in b&w. Books good+ with edgewear to spine ends and corners, bindings tender with all inner hinges cracked, foxing to endpapers, text.....
Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West
New York: Viking, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 1985. First edition. Hardcover, 240 pp. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Very good in very good dust jacket. Very light foxing to edges of text-block. Very light edgewear to DJ.
Scotland's Lost Gardens: From the Garden of Eden to the Stewart Palaces
Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2012. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2012. Quarto, hardcover in dust jacket, illustrated (much in color), 376 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light rubbing to the tips of the book's covers, minor.....
A Sense of the Country (Seasonal Guide to Decorating Your Home with Flowers, Fruits and Natural Objects)
Boston: Little Brown & Co. (t), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 1990 Hardcover in Fine condition, in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Men with Green Pens: Lives of the Great Writers on Plants in Early Times
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1964. Hardcover. 161 pp. A near fine copy in green cloth. Dust jacket is very good+. Minor corner and edgewear of boards. Upper edge of front DJ shows some water staining. Also edgewear, including chipping at head and foot of DJ spine, and light soil of DJ. DJ.....