London: printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand, and W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar, MDCCXXI [1721]. Half-Calf. First Edition in English of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings." (Hunt) Demy 4to (276 x 214mm): [24],300,[4]pp, with 31 (i.e. 33: in the numbering of plates, XXIII and XXVIII..... more

Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Decorative Cloth. First Edition under this title (see below) of this early work on a fashionable Victorian pastime. 8vo (191 x 119mm): 96pp, with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. Original dark green ribbed and beveled cloth, covers paneled in blind..... more

London: printed for Taylor and Hessey, No. 93, Fleet Street, 1815. Full Calf. Second Edition of this classic of meteorology (first published in 1814), which revolutionized the understanding of ventilation in public places and for which Wells was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. Demy 8vo (212 x...... more

London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, 1915. First Edition. One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography to Moor Park's owner, Lady Emilie Ebury. With an introduction by Lady Ebury..... more

London: Printed for Daniel Browne, Andrew Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, John Pemberton, Charles Rivington, John Hooke, R. Cruttenden and T. Cox, Jer. Battley, Edward Symon, M.DCC.XVII. [1717]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Second Edition, "very much corrected," of this influential treatise by the head gardener to the Earl of Essex..... more

York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; T. Cadell, in the Strand; J. Robson, New-Bond-Street; and T. Durham, Charing-Cross, London. W. Creech and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, M.DCC.LXXVI [1776]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Hunter Edition (sixth overall, first published in 1664), virtually doubling the original text. 4to..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand [from 1782], M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. Early Reprint. Quarter-Bound Calf. Third Edition (first published 1782) of this picturesque tour, creating an entirely new class of travel. Demy 8vo (214 x 133mm): xvi,152,[2]pp, including final advertisement leaf and 17 full-page oval aquatints (without titles, numbers..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, M.DCC.XCII [1792]. Second Edition. Full Calf. Second Edition (first published in 1789) of this title from Gilpin's series applying his principles of picturesque beauty to the exploration of various British landscapes, in this case to the scenery of the Scottish highlands. Complete in two..... more

A Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Vatar-Jouannet, rue cassette, No. 913, An IX - 1800. Half-Leather. Scarce First Edition of the first monograph on roses published in French. 12mo (176 x 103mm): [8],ix,[3],340pp, with engraved folding frontispiece (depicting 10 botanical parts of the rose) and folding letterpress table ("Tableau Analytique des..... more

London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane, 1822. Paper-Covered Boards. Second Edition, very considerably enlarged, of this florist's treatise on "the finest and most esteemed varieties of each flower." Crown 8vo (189 x 112mm): [2],12,xxvii,[1],304pp, with six hand-colored plates (five lithographs and one engraving). Original sage green paper-covered..... more

London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street [through 1718], 1717. Full Calf. Three volumes in one: Fifth Edition of the first, Second of the second, First of the third. 8vo: [2, the frontispiece and title page may be cancels],vi (dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, from The..... more

Paris: Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20, 1827. Quarter-Calf. Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regnier. Contemporary black quarter-calf lettered, ruled..... more

Northampton and Towcester Buckingham; London: Messrs. Jackson Stops [and others], 1921. Limited Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Catalog of the auctioneer Jackson Stops announcing the sale of the historical seat of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, the "most magnificent of [Britain's] private estates" and the "most celebrated English landscape of the..... more