Arader Galleries, Rare Books

Item #JLR0664 Choix des plus belles fleurs prises dans différentes familles du règne végétal...

Redouté, Pierre-Joseph

Choix des plus belles fleurs prises dans différentes familles du règne végétal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits groupées quelquefois, et souvent animées par des insectes et des papillons gravées, imprimées en couleur et retouchées au pinceau avec un soin qui doit répondre de leur perfection dédié a LL. AA. RR. les Princesses Louise et Marie d’Orléans par P. J. Redouté Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. . .

THE GOLDEN COPY Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke for the author, C.L.F. Panckoucke, Bossange père, Treuttel & Wurtz, Dufars and Arthus-Bertrand; 1827[–1833]. First edition. Quarto (13 1/16” x 9 11/16”, 332mm x 246mm): binder’s blank, π2 14 24(24+χ1), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 11 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, 2pp. preface), 1-3.....

Price: $190,000

Item #JLR0662 Pomona britannica; or, a collection of the most esteemed fruits at present...

Brookshaw, George

Pomona britannica; or, a collection of the most esteemed fruits at present cultivated in this country; together with the blossoms and leaves of such as are necessary to distinguish the various sorts from each other. Selected principally from the royal gardens at Hampton Court, and the remainder from the most celebrated gardens round London. Accurately drawn and coloured from Nature, with full descriptions of their various qualities, seasons, &c.

“ONE OF THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS IN EXISTENCE” FROM THE LIBRARY OF QUENTIN KEYNES London: T. Bensley for the author; White, Cochrane and Co.; E. Lloyd; and W. Lindsell; [1804–]1812. First edition. Broadsheet folio (23 ½” x 18 5/8”, 596mm x 470mm): π-2π1 a-c1 B-2H1 χ1 [$1 signed]. 36 leaves.....

Price: $185,000

Item #6JLR0142 The Colored Fruit Book: for the use of Nurserymen, containing accurate Specimens...

Dewey, D.M.

The Colored Fruit Book: for the use of Nurserymen, containing accurate Specimens of Colored Fruits and Flowers carefully drawn and colored from nature, and designed to represent a medium and fair size of each particular fruit. It has been the design of the Publisher of this Series of Colored Fruit Plates, to place before the purchaser of Fruit Trees as faithful a representation of the Fruit as it is possible to make by the Process adopted

Rochester, N.Y.: D.M. Dewey, 1860. Quarto (11 3/16” x 8 ¾”, 284mm x 223mm): binder’s blank, a two-color lithographed title-page, 56 hand-colored lithographed plates, 6 chromolithographed plates and 2 two-color lithographed plates. Bound in half black morocco (rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down) over cloth boards. On the front.....

Price: $8,500

Item #6JLR0087 The Hot-House Gardener or the General Culture of the Pine-Apple, and methods of...

Abercrombie, John

The Hot-House Gardener or the General Culture of the Pine-Apple, and methods of forcing Early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, and other choice fruits, in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. With directions for raising Melons and Early Strawberries

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789. First edition. Octavo (9 13/16” x 6”, 250mm x 153mm): A-Q8 [$4 signed; –A1]. 128 leaves, pp. i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-xvi, 1 2-238, [2] (2pp. advertisements). [=xvi, 238, ii] With five engraved plates (sanguine). Bound in publisher’s blue boards, rebacked to style, preserving.....

Price: $4,500

Ferrari, Giovanni Battista

Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu. Libri Quatuor.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF CITRUS Rome: Hermann Scheus, 1646. First edition. Folio (13 7/8" x 9 3/8", 352mm x 240mm). Letterpress title, engraved frontispiece by Johann Friedrich Greuter after Pietro da Cortona, 101 engraved plates (of which 80 are of citrus fruits by Cornelis Bloemaert after.....

Price: $28,000

Item #6JLR0046 Pomologia, dat is Beschryvingen en Afbeeldingen van de beste sorten van Appels en...

Knoop, Johann Hermann

Pomologia, dat is Beschryvingen en Afbeeldingen van de beste sorten van Appels en Peeren... WITH Fructologia, of Beschryving derVrugtbomen en Vrugten... WITH Dendrologia, or Beschryving der Plantagie-Gewassen...

THE FIRST GREAT WORK OF POMOLOGY OF REAL IMPORTANCE. Three volumes in one. Leeuwarden: Gedruckt by Abraham Ferwerda en Gerrit Tresling; 1758-1763-1763. First edition. Folio (14 3/8" x 10 3/8", 368mm x 265mm). Three letterpress title-pages within wood-engraved border printed in red. Engraved coat-of-arms and 39 hand-colored engraved plates. Bound in.....

Price: $9,000

Item #6JLR0001 Annales de Pomologie belge et étrangère, publiées par la commission royale de...

[Pomology]

Annales de Pomologie belge et étrangère, publiées par la commission royale de pomologie, instituée par Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges

Eight volumes, complete. Bruxelles: F. Parent, 1853-1861. First edition. With 384 lithographed colored plates. Folio (14” x 10 15/16”, 356mm x 278mm). Bound in the publisher’s printed blue drab boards with black tape spines. With some soiling to the boards and wear to the extremities. Tape spines starting or splitting.....

Price: $26,000