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

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: Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; and Joseph Onwhyn, Catharine Street, Strand, 1830. Three-Quarter Calf. Scarce extra-illustrated copy of this work on English writers on gardening and landscape design (in effect, a bibliography). Demy 8vo (224 x 134mm): xxxviii [2],221,[1]pp. Small, trimmed eighteenth-century portrait engravings, after Hollar, of John..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand, M.DCC.LXXXIX [1789]. Second Edition. A very beautifully bound Large Paper Issue (ESTC Citation No.T98996) of Gilpin's first picturesque tour. Broad royal 8vo: [xvi],152pp, including final advertisement leaf and 17 full-page oval aquatints (without titles, numbers, signatures or imprints). Contemporary full mottled calf..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, M.DCC.XCII [1792]. Second Edition. Full Calf. Complete in two octavo volumes. viii,xii,221,[1]; [2],xvi,195,[1]pp, with 40 plates, of which 35 are hand-colored aquatints (including five plans) and five are soft-ground etchings. (In vol. II, "An Account of the Prints" and "Translation of Latin Passages," sometimes..... more

London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXXXIII [1783]. First Edition thus. Half-Calf. First (and only) Edition in English, translated from the French; considered the more valuable for its 55 page introduction by the translator. Small 8vo: [2],lv,[1],160pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece of the Ile des Peupliers. Nineteenth-century black calf flat spine..... 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: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. New [third] Edition, enlarged, of this pioneering publication, one of the earliest horticultural works written specifically for women. Tall 12mo (186 x 109mm): viii,136 pp, with six hand-colored aquatints, including folding frontispiece (engraved by I. Clark with imprint: "Published for Henry..... 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

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