A Avignon: chez Louis Chambeau, imprimeur-libraire, près les RR PP. jésuites, M. DCC. LIX. [1759] / M. DCC. LXV. [1765]. Full Leather. Two superb editions, on tulips (second edition) and hyacinths (first), in closely matched original bindings, each in twelve chapters with two folding copper-engraved plates. Hyacinths: 12mo (147 x...... more

New York: C. M. Saxton, 25 Park Row, 1862. Decorative Cloth. Early printing of this detailed guide to cultivating grapes in the New World. Crown 8vo (182 x 114mm): xii,[1],12-204pp, with frontispiece and 32 illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, covers elaborately blind-stamped with grape-and-vine motif, spine lettered and decorated..... more

Harlech [Wales]: D. H. Parry, 1920. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. Scarce first printing of Coburn's celebration of this otherworldly Welsh village to which he and his wife fled from London, growing vegetables and keeping goats. Oblong 8vo (174 x 232mm): [6],7-15,[1]pp, with 20 numbered collotype engravings in various tints from..... more

A La Haye [The Hague]: chés Jean Martin Husson, 1739. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Third Edition of this important French treatise on garden design, "to this day the standard authority on the formal garden." (Henrey) 4to (257 x 193mm): [8],383 [13]pp, with 42 copper-engraved plates (some folding and double page)..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. Early Reprint. Quarter-Bound Calf. 8vo: [xvi],152,[2]pp, including final advertisement leaf and 17 full-page oval aquatints (without titles, numbers, signatures or imprints). Recent quarter calf, smooth spine in five compartments (two with central gilt tools) divided by double rules, red morocco..... 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

Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick, 1675. Early Reprint. Vellum. Three books in one quarto volume, including Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier, the most influential horticultural manual from the golden age of Dutch garden design. Bound in contemporary vellum and printed in black, Roman, and italic letter. I. Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier: [30],96,[2]pp (p. 96 misnumbered..... 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

London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, 14, St. Ann's Lane, 1823. First Edition. First edition. 4to: 110,[2, Index]pp, with the half-title and 27 hand-colored plates (watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1823'), "elegantly colored, typical of the high degree of finish usually found in Rudolph Ackermann's work"..... more

New York: Gramercy Park Association, 1921. Paper-Covered Boards. Scarce privately printed first separate edition of this history of the small, fenced private park in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. Demy 8vo (227 x 148mm): [4],53,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece of Samuel Ruggles, title-page vignette, and seven full-page plates from halftones..... more

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, MDCCCCVII [1907] / 1917. First Editions thus. Hardcover. First and final volumes (as far as we can determine, only these two titles were published) from a "series of classics in landscape architecture which has been undertaken . . . with..... more