![Histoire Naturelle des Abeilles; avec des figures en taille-douce [Duchess of Buccleuch]. Gilles...](/pictures/thumb/BB1913.jpeg?v=1598041824)
Paris: Chez les Freres Guerin, rue S. Jacques, vis-à-vis les Mathurins, à Saint Thomas d'Aquin, 1744. First Edition of this important beekeeping treatise cast in the form of a dialogue on the life of bees and their behavior, complete in two matched volumes. Text in French. 12mo (164 x 88mm)..... 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
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
![Silva [Sylva]: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in his Majesty’s...](/pictures/thumb/BB0591.jpg?v=1499796673)
York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley; T. Cadell; J. Robson; and T. Durham, London. W. Creech and J. Balfour, Edinburgh [through 1787], 1776. First Edition thus. First Hunter Edition (sixth overall, first published 1664), virtually doubling the size of the original text, with the scarce 10pp advertisement (ESTC..... 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, 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.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.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 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
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
![Garden Design] Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier : beschrijvende alderhande Princelijcke en Heerlijcke...](/pictures/thumb/BB1462.JPG?v=1499796819)
Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick, 1675. Early Reprint. 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 69)..... more
![Instructions pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers] The compleat gard’ner; or, Directions for...](/pictures/thumb/BB1183.jpg?v=1535589667)
London: printed for Matthew Gillyflower, at the Spread Eagle in Westminster-Hall, and James Partridge, at the Posthouse at Charing-Cross, M DC XC III. [1693]. First Edition. Full Calf. 2º: [44],184,[4],204[118 misnumbered 116; pp 117-136 omitted but text continuous],4,[4],80pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of La Quintinie, 11 plates (2 double-page) of..... 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
![The clergy-Man’s [clergyman's] recreation: shewing the pleasure and profit of the art of...](/pictures/thumb/BB0921.jpg?v=1499796705)
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
A Paris: Chez Charles Osmont, ruë Saint Jacques, à l'Ecu de France, M. DCC. XVI. [1716]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Complete in two quarto volumes. [8],16,23[i. e., 32],[8],666[84 misnumbered 80],[4], with 12 copper-engraved plates (2 folding), mostly of pruning patterns and tools; [12],562,[30]pp, with one plate and woodcuts in text..... more
London: printed by J[ames].C[ottrell]. for Thomas Dring, at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-Lane in Fleetstreet, 1675. Early Reprint. "The second edition [first edition, 1669] carefully corrected and amended, with many large and useful additions throughout the whole work." Folio: [36],324,[4]pp, with additional engraved title page signed: F H...... more