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. The Second Edition, "very much corrected," of this influential treatise by the head gardener to the Earl of..... 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.LXXXVI [1786]. Full Calf. First Edition of one of the earliest guides to the Lake district, complete in two volumes. 8vo: [4],xxxi,[1],xvi,230; [4],268,xivpp, with 30 sepia acquaints and soft-ground etched plates, including 3 maps with watercolor wash, by Joseph Farington. Full cat's-paw calf, boards..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, M.DCC.XCI. [1791]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this seminal work, complete in two volumes. Tall 8vo's: [4],vii,[1],328,iv,7,[1]; [4],308,iii,[1],xxpp, with 32 leaves of tinted aquatints and soft-ground etchings by Samuel Aikin. Recent cinnamon ribbed cloth spines stamped in gilt, beige paper-covered boards. Remarkably well-preserved..... 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

Amsterdam: Chez M. Magérus, Libraire, MDCCLXXI [1771]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates (quince, cherry, plum, fig, currant, almond, chestnut, apricot..... more

Dublin / London: Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1772 / 1757. Full Calf. First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list of subscribers, preliminary advertisement..... more