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Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Pope, William. 175 pp. Thirty-six four-color plates with accompanying commentary by J. Fenwick Landsdowne. Index. Pope emigrated from Kent, England and settled in Port Ryerse, Ontario. Canada's first artist-naturalist, his watercolors are artistically comparable to those of his contemporary, Audubon. Selections from Pope's very literate journals, he was well educated and a keen observer, are also reproduced here.

London: C. Clement, 1821. Stereotype edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown crushed morocco. Fine. Unpaginated. 19 x 12 cm. Four copperplate engravings. The author, also known under the pen name of Peter Porcupine, (as a controversial political pamphleteer) lived in the United States at the end of the 18th century before returning to England. Index. SABIN 13871. Light text toning, elegant binding -- raised bands, spine panel gilt in floral motif, double gilt border fillets.

New York: William Wood & Co, 1867. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 511 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. This expanded edition with 408 illustrations is newly arranged and rewritten based on Downing's (Fruits and Fruit Trees of America) first edition which appeared after the first edition of this title. General Index and Glossary. Scattered foxing throughout, beveled edges, nicks to backstrip head and foot, tight binding.

Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. Later marbled boards with brown leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 104 pages in text. 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Twenty-one lithographic plates, one a large foldout (Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden at the University of Louvain), and containing eighty-eight individual illustrations of plats and greenhouses (design details of interior and exterior views). Some drawings to scale. Text covers construction of an orangerie, warm and cold weather greenhouses. The author was Chief gardener of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Lovely copy, slight text age-toning, original wrappers bound-in, marbled endpapers, a few plates with toning at fore-edge not affecting images. OCLC lists three copies only. Text in French.

New York: Orange Judd, 1890. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth, gilt front cover design bright. Very good. 516 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Illustrated with 190 text figures. Two indices: General Index & Index To The Different Fruits. Fruit descriptions note State origins of the various fruits. Very firm fresh copy, interior bright and clean. beveled edges.

New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Cloth. Orig. decorated white cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 127 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 45 plates in full coor, 54 duotone photographs. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson, with commentaries by Miriam T. Gross.

Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy portfolio housed in folding box, striped front cover and back cover matching navy colored portfolio. Fine. Baskin, Leonard. Oblong folio. 28.7 x 37 cm. One of 50 copies. The 65 individual sheets, signed woodcuts and linoleum cuts by Baskin printed in black, blue, red and green ink on semi-transparent paper, interleaved with heavier stock. The images varying in size, all with full margins printed one to a leaf on Troya paper, and printed from the blocks by Harold McGrath, Signed by Baskin in pencil on last leaf. One of fifty sets created. An unknown number were bound; many, like this set, remained in loose sheets. The images, which range in size from roughly one inch up to 8 inches. They consist primarily of illustrations, bookplates, pressmarks, and ephemera used in earlier works. BRIDWELL 77. Laid-in, the Gehenna Press illustrated announcement on light green stock describing the publication. Baskin founded the Gehenna Press… Read More

Dundonald: Blackstaff Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf, marbled boards, raised bands decorated in gilt. Fine in fine matching marbled slipcase. Parker, Richard Dunscombe. 113 pages. 43 x 60 cm. Limited edition 166 of 250, signed by Editor and Designer. 40 mounted color plates reproducing the original watercolour paintings originally discovered in 1976 by the Editor in the recesses of the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Bound for over a century in a flat box, the original 170 watercolours measuring 24 1/2 x 30 inches were painted on white wove paper over pencil outlines. Besides the remarkable plates, Martyn Anglesea describes the history of Ornithological painting, it's place in history, as well as the little known, until now, history of Parker and his extended family. Anglesea states, "Parker's paintings are quite unique as a contribution to nineteenth-century Irish Ornithology and with their Irish topographical backgrounds, for a collection of great value." Including notes… Read More

New York: Calaway Editions, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 144 pages. 35 x 27.5 cm. Located outside Atlanta,Georgia and noted as the largest public garden in the world,also contains the largest azalea garden in existence. The gardens span fourteen thousand acres housing a butterfly center and a horticultural center and vegetable garden. Signed presentation copy by Bo and Beth Callaway.

Amsterdam: C.G. Sulpke, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco and marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Very good. 190 pages in text. Folio, 43 x 28.6 cm. Presents the first major work on the orchids of Japan and Malay Peninsula. Half-title. Additional hand-colored lithographic by Lauters depicting dancing Balinese maidens surrounded by a wreath of orchids and 70 lithographic plates, including 56 hand-colored and one double-page by G. Severeyns after T.Bik, Blume, Gordon, Latour, van Raalten and A.J. Wendel. An attractive work on the orchids of the Malay archipelago. It was also issued with the title Flora Javae et insularum adjacentium nova series. ''It is possible that the parts of the two editions were issued almost simultaneously'' (Stafleu). Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855-1956) was director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, from 1888 to 1912, and author of The Flora of the Malay Peninsula. GREAT FLOWER BOOKS p. 50. NISSEN BBI 17. STAFLEU & COWAN TL2 569. Endpapers… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Three quarter green calf, marbled boards and matching endpapers, spines uniformly faded to brown. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. 465 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 150. 15 "Embellishments," full page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. 74 engravings on wood. General Index. Fresh, clean copy. Raised bands, spine panels with decorative gilt angling designs.

London: William Pickering, 1825. Hardcover. Contemporary brown cloth. Very good. 314 (4) pages. 9.5 x 6 cm. Miniature book. Original spine paper label chipped with loss. Interior contents clean, illustrated with occasional wood engravings.

New York: C.M. Saxton, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's embossed in blind, dark olive cloth. Very good. 120 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Ten black and white lithographic plates including title page. The Appendix lists prices realized for bushels of cranberries sold from 1850-1855. Interior contents clean and bright, bookplate, modest extremity wear.

London: William Pickering, 1836. leather_bound. Contemporary dark green morocco, double gilt cover border panels, gilt paneled raised bands. Aeg. Near fine. 3 Vols. (ccxii) 436 pages (16 pp. Index at rear). 27 x 18 cm. Large Paper copy of the first Nicholas Edition, half titles, titles printed in red and black, numerous engraved head pieces, illustrated throughout, and extra Illustrated with forty five full page engraved plates, including fifteen proofs on India paper. With an additional portrait of Walton laid-in. PERCY MUIR, VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. p.21. "one of the best, possibly the very best of ,,,the 146 editions of the Compleat Angler published between 1836 and 1901, with engravings after Stothard (scenery), Inskipp (fishes) and others." The text follows that of the fifth edition of 1676 which was the last edition revised by Walton himself and the variations of the four preceding editions are indicated at the foot of each page. Marginal spotting, minor offsetting of plates to text, a few… Read More

Rome: Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempel, 1768. First edition. Boards. Recased in later full boards. Near fine. 283 pages. 29.5 x 21.5 cm. Four copper engraved plates; large fold-outs, plus title vignette, head and tail pieces and initials. Index and errata page. A discussion of the magical mineral waters and baths of Porreta Terme near Bologna at the foot of the Appennines. Elegantly printed with wide text margins, title page remargined, uncut, last few leaves with dampstains in gutter not affecting text, a very clean and crisp copy.

London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1842. New Series. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth. Very good. 10 vols. 26 x 17 cm. Total of 688 hand-colored engraved botanical plates with tissue guards, lacking 26 plates. The young Edwards made some drawings from the plates in the "Flora londinensis" which eventually caught the eye of Curtis who was sufficiently impressed with the work to arrange for Edwards to come to London for further training and instruction. Eventually he made many hundreds of drawings for "The Botanical Magazine," and severed his connection to Curtis only when he started his rival periodical in 1815 described here [see: HENREY, Vol. II, p.306]. NISSEN 2739. Plates very fresh and clean, descriptive data rear of each volume partly unopened, covers decorated in blind, backstrips lettered and decorated in gilt. minimal shelf wear. Glasgow booksellers' label. Vol I lacks [5,22,29,32-33,38,49,58,65]. Vol.2 [13]. Vol. 3 [2,46,50,56]. Vol.5 [37]. Vol.6 [1,42,53,58]. Vol.7 [37.52.67]. Vol.9… Read More

Tokio: Printed By The Shiuyei Sha & Published By Kelly and Walsh, 1899. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt. Very good. 142 text pages [Appendix VIII]. Half title, 72 black and white plates, 39 text illustrations, and 14 full page color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. With K. Ogawa he published Landscape Gardening In Japan in 1893, also served as an architect, and taught at the Imperial College of Engineering, and designed western style buildings. This second edition was the first in English on ikebana. Ex-library, contents clean, fresh with interior unmarked with ex-library marks. Extremities rubbed, beveled edges.

Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Orig. beige linen cloth, brown leather spine label printed in gilt Fine in near fine matching slipcase. Teg.. 175 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 2500 designed and printed by the Lakeside Press. Approximately 80 plates, most are in color; Chronological List. Index. Front cover green leather inset printed and decorated in gilt, armorial bookplate.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Very good. 3 Vols. XXIV, 63, (1). Folio, 43 x 33 cm. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the Author and Fifty-three by Charles Latham, collotypes from photographs. Title page printed in red and black, interior contents clean. Six page Subscriber's List. Many full page plates with drawings to scale. Backstrips reinforced.

New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. leather_bound. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. 2 vols. Fine. 100 & 96 pages. 8vo, 26 x 18 cm. Ninety-six chromolithograph plates [with tissue guards] by Boston's William Sharp & Son, plus a plethora of woodcuts of fruit, flowers and trees. "He published also two complete volumes and part of a third entitled FRUITS OF AMERICA, purposing to give `richly colored figures and full descriptions of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States.' This work was issued in parts from 1847 to 1856, though the title page of the first complete volumes bears the date 1852. The volumes are handsomely printed printed and contain plates.......sketched from nature by Hovey himself." [see: DNB, Vol. 9, p.272]. Hovey also made the greatest single contribution to horticulture in the origination of the Hovey strawberry -- the first North American variety produced by a definite plan of breeding. NISSEN 941. REESE #20. Ex-library, no exterior… Read More