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Item #GRM0091 Flora overo cultura di fiori Del P. Gio: Battista Ferrari Sanese della Comp. di...

Ferrari, Giovanni Battista; trans. Ludovico Aureli

Flora overo cultura di fiori Del P. Gio: Battista Ferrari Sanese della Comp. di Giesù Distinta in Quattro Libri E trasportata dalla lingua Latina nell’ Italiana da Lodovico Aureli Perugino

Rome: Pietro Antonio Facciotti, 1638. First edition in Italian, second issue. Quarto (8 11/16” x 6 7/16”, 220mm x 163mm): ✠–✠✠4 A-Xxx4 Yyy6, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed; –✠1, N2, Gg1, Ooo2; +Yyy3, Dd1 signed “D”, Dd2 signed “D2”]. 282 leaves, pp. [16] (engraved title, blank, 2pp. dedication to Anna.....

Price: $2,750

Item #GRM0082 Choix des plus belles fluers et des plus beaux fruits par P.J. Redouté chevalier...

Redoute, Pierre-Joseph

Choix des plus belles fluers et des plus beaux fruits par P.J. Redouté chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, peintre et professeur d’iconographie au Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, dessinateur en titre de la classe de physique et mathématiques de l’Institut, membre de la Société Philotechnique et des Enfans d’Apollon, de celle d’agriculture du département de seine-et-oise, membre correspondant de la Société Royale d’Agriculture et de botanique de la ville de Gand, associé honoraire de la Société de Genève, membre correspondant de celle dite Horticulturale de Londres, etc.

Paris: E. Panckoucke, [1833]. Quarto (12 2/8” x 9”, 311mm x 229mm): 2 binder’s blanks, π2 1–24 32(–23) [$1 signed; –11, –13]. 11 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, 2pp. introduction) 1–3 4–17 [1] (blank). With 144 stipple-engraved plates color-printed à la poupée and finished by hand before numbers. Bound in.....

Price: $85,000

Item #JLR0380 Flora overo cultura di fiori Del P. Gio: Battista Ferrari Sanese della Comp. di...

Ferrari, Giovanni Battista; trans. Ludovico Aureli

Flora overo cultura di fiori Del P. Gio: Battista Ferrari Sanese della Comp. di Giesù Distinta in Quattro Libri E trasportata dalla lingua Latina nell’ Italiana da Lodovico Aureli Perugino

THE FAIRHAVEN COPY Rome: Pietro Antonio Facciotti, 1638. First edition in Italian, second issue. Quarto (9 ¾” x 7 3/8”, 248mm x 187mm): ✠4(±✠1) ✠✠4 A-Xxx4 Yyy6(–Yyy6) [$2 signed; –✠1, N2, Ooo2; +Yy3]. 281 leaves, pp. [16] (engraved title, blank, 2pp. dedication to Anna Colonna Barberini, 4pp. to the.....

Price: $8,500

Item #GRM0073 Weinmannvs redivivvs emendatvs et illvstratvs, sive thesavrvs rei herbariæ...

Weinmann, Johann

Weinmannvs redivivvs emendatvs et illvstratvs, sive thesavrvs rei herbariæ locvpletissimvs. Recevil de figvres enlvminées de qvelqves milliers des plantes les plvs vtiles dans la medecine, dans l’oeconomie et povr les ornemens des jardins, contenves dans l’herbier de fev Mr. Weinmann, eclairci par les denominations systematiqves de Mr. Le Chevalier Linné accompagnè d’vn index systematiqve d’aprés le systeme sexval. Tom. I. Tab. 1–275 [Tom. II. 276–525, Tom. III. 526–775, Tom. IV. 776–1025]

Four volumes. Augsburg: Johann Elias Haid, 1787. First revised edition. Folio (15 7/8” x 10 1/8”, 395mm x 258mm):Vol. I: With an engraved title-page heightened in red and gold and 275 hand-colored engraved plates, of which 1 is double-page.Vol. II: With an engraved title-page heightened in red and gold and.....

Price: $100,000

Item #GRM0067 The Orchidaceæ of Mexico & Guatemala by Ja.s Bateman, Esq.re “Like restless...

Bateman, James

The Orchidaceæ of Mexico & Guatemala by Ja.s Bateman, Esq.re “Like restless serpents, clothed in rainbow and fire, the parasites, starred with ten thousand blossoms flow around the grey trunks” Shelley

London: for the author by J. Ridgway and Sons, 1843. First edition. Elephant folio (28 ¾” x 20 7/8” 728mm x 531mm): 52 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, dedication, blank, preface, engraved wreath, subscribers, index) 1–7 8–9 10–12 [4] (engraving of epiphyte-houses, list of “best” orchids cultivated in England, 2pp.....

Price: $170,000

Item #GRM0066 The Orchidaceæ of Mexico & Guatemala by Ja.s Bateman, Esq.re “Like restless...

Bateman, James

The Orchidaceæ of Mexico & Guatemala by Ja.s Bateman, Esq.re “Like restless serpents, clothed in rainbow and fire, the parasites, starred with ten thousand blossoms flow around the grey trunks” Shelley

EX-COLL. JOHN ROLAND ABBEY London: for the author by J. Ridgway and Sons, 1843. First edition. Elephant folio (29” x 20 ¾” 735mm x 530mm): 52 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, dedication, blank, subscribers, index, 2pp. synopsis, list of “best” orchids cultivated in England, engraving of epiphyte-houses, preface, engraved wreath).....

Price: $250,000

Item #GRM0065 A Selection of Hexandrian Plants Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidæ and...

Bury, Priscilla.

A Selection of Hexandrian Plants Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidæ and Liliacæ From Drawings by Mrs. Edward Bury, Liverpool. Engraved by R. Havell. This Work is most respectfully dedicated To Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria by her Obedient humble Servant. Rob.t Havell

EX-COLL. HENRY ROGERS BROUGHTON, 2nd BARON FAIRHAVEN London: Robert Havell, 1831. First and only edition. Folio (24 9/16” x 18 ¾”, 624mm x 474mm): 55 leaves, [4] (preface, blank, subscriber list, blank) foll. 1–51 (51 specimen descriptions, each with a blank verso) [4] (index, blank, systematic index, blank). With an engraved title-page.....

Price: $195,000

Item #GRM0064 Plantae selectae qvarvm imagines ad exemplaria natvralia Londini in hortis...

Trew, Christoph Jakob; Georg Dionysius Ehret, Johann Jakob Haid, Benedict Christian Vogel

Plantae selectae qvarvm imagines ad exemplaria natvralia Londini in hortis cvriosorvm nvtrita manv artificiosa doctaque pinxit Geogivs Dionysivs Ehret Germanvs occasione havd vvlgari collegit nominibvs propriis notisqve svbinde illvstravit et pvblico vsvi dicavit D. Christophorvs Iacobvs Trevv medicvs Norimbergensis in aes incidit et vivis coloribvs repræsentavit Ioannes Iacobvs Haid pictor et chalcographvs avgvstanvs

THE PERTH COPY [Nuremberg: 1750–1773]. 10 parts bound in 1. First edition. Folio (20 2/3” x 13 15/16”, 525mm x 355mm): )(2 A–O2 +χ1 [$2 signed]. 31 leaves, pp. 1–56 [2] (monitum, index). With 10 engraved title-pages heightened in red and gold, three mezzotint portraits of Trew, Ehret, and Haid.....

Price: $85,000

Item #JLR0818 Observations on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some...

Repton, Humphry

Observations on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts. By H. Repton, Esq.

London: T. Bensley for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library; 1805. Second edition. Quarto (13 7/16” x 10 7/8”, 341mm x 276mm): binder’s blank, A4 πB4 B-2F4, binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 120 leaves, pp. 1-5 (title, blank, dedication, blank, advertisement) 6-16, 21 22-222 [2] (2pp. index). With 28 hors-texte plates.....

Price: $9,750

Item #JLR0808 The English gardener; or, a treatise On the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and...

Cobbett, William

The English gardener; or, a treatise On the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and Laying-Out, of Kitchen Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-beds and Green-Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of all sorts of Kitchen-Garden Plants, and of Fruit-Trees whether of the Garden or the Orchard. And also, On the Formation of Shrubberies and Flower-Gardens; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of the several sorts of Shrubs and Flowers. Concluding with a kalendar, Giving Instructions to the Sowings, Plantings, Prunings, and other labours, to be performed in the Gardens, in each Month of the Year. By William Cobbett, M.P. for Oldham

London: Mills, Jowett, and Mills (for Anne Cobbett?); 1833. Second edition. Octavo (8 11/16” x 5 ½”, 222mm x 140mm): A2 B-Y8 Z2(±Z2 blank; Z1+2A6). 178 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, contents, blank) 1 2-338, 21 22-12 (12pp. advertisements), [2] (2pp. blank). With a folding engraved plate of a garden.....

Price: $450

Item #JLR0788 The American gardener; or, a treatise On the Situation, Soil, Fencing and...

Cobbett, William

The American gardener; or, a treatise On the Situation, Soil, Fencing and Laying-Out of Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of the several sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Flowers

London: C. Clement, 1821. “Stereotype edition.” Duodecimo in 6s (7 5/8” x 4 ½”, 193mm x 113mm): A-Q6 R4 S-Y6 [$2 signed (1 and 3 as “2”) A-G, $3 signed H-Y; –A1, O3, R3]. 130 leaves, pp. [260]. With 4 full-page engraved plates integral with the text, each blank recto.....

Price: $350

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